Effective Teaching and Learning

Providing a rich and varied context is essential, tutors should utilize a range of different methods to engage all students interests and learning styles. Identifying and meeting the learners needs are important so that tutors can facilitate students learning and ensure that both the students and tutors meet the required goals. Each learner is unique and brings to the learning situation their own different learning style, knowledge set, past experiences and motivational levels. It is important for tutors to consider the level of knowledge and skill development attained by the learners prior to instruction through a variety of different types of assessment, in order to offer a high quality learning experience, delivered and resourced to suit the needs of the learner. Tutors can assess learner needs through numerous means, such as; informal and formal assessment strategies, pre-course interviews and learning style tests. This will allow tutors to tailor lessons and activities to support learners individual needs.

This tactic is highly effective because the tutor is able to tailor to what the student needs and the more they get to know them the more efficient the tutor is. For example, every Tuesday during the school year, I worked with a fifth grade boy named Kalid and after a few months I knew that he awfully struggled with math and so I started a math regimen for him which we worked consecutively on together. I knew what he remembered and what he liked and what he did not. I knew the best way for him to practice (flash cards) and what did not work for him. I also believe that consistency is key and so I was there every week, out of town vacations or sickness were rare exceptions, and I am sure the familiarity helps. On Mondays I worked with a seventh grade girl named Melika and she enjoyed telling me about her life every week. She told me about school and sports and I was happy to listen. Some students do not have the same constant tutor every week but each student has a daily log where the last tutor fills out what they worked on, what they struggled with, and what they excelled at so the next person can follow off that. This journal method is also great for keeping track of a student's progress and making sure they get the help they need. If the individual tutor truly cares about their student(s) and is willing to have that strong personal connection I think that is

Similarly, students having the opportunity to work with a tutor rather than their professor is academically beneficial. Tutors are able to explain the majority of concepts in a different way that their professors do. This way, a confused student may be able to understand a concept for a first time. Or, a student who already understands the concept may be able to get a deeper understanding by hearing it from a different

The tutor will ask their tutees what they need, and how had understood the subjects so far. He or she will involve his or her students in a discussion of the course material. Their homework will be scrutinized, but the tutor will not simply provide the correct answers to their students. Tutors are trained to help someone to find out the correct answers on their own. They assist the students with basic reading/writing/math skills necessary for success in their college course. The tutor will also help them with note taking and test taking skills, and tips on how to perform well in their particular subject areas.

As a tutor my main responsibility besides assisting AVID teachers is to participate with the students in a tutorial process. With tutorials students are able to receive assistance in their coursework and are encouraged to create and ask high level questions pertaining to their classes. The tutorial process consists of forming small groups with up to seven students each of which is provided with a tutor. Throughout my time working as a tutor I have gained many skills which would translate well into a teaching career. One of the most important skills I have learned is patience. When I was tutoring students there were multiple times that they would not understand the concept or problem that I was explaining. During these moments I would not give students the answers, but instead would treat them as thoughtful young adults by asking questions that will help lead them to the answer. For each student, I had to change my teaching methods in a way that would accommodate to their individual learning styles, and as such had found had to get creative with the ways I explained concepts to students. Besides having patience I learned to effectively communicate and listen to students. When I initially started tutorials students would only silently write the presenter’s problem, however by asking questions students learned to follow my example and participate

Tutoring is much more than just teaching someone the material that they did not understand or missed. For some people, that might be the definition of tutoring. However, for me it means that the person is happy when they finally understand the material. I appreciate a smile and I try really hard to make people smile, especially when they have a problem. Tutoring is a resource useful to professors because it provides more out of class instruction on how to do the material, and also allows the professor to get a break from constant teaching. For the student, it might be that they understand the material better when someone else tutors it instead of the teacher. Peer tutors who already navigated the course might have an upper leg in understanding

Being an administrator within an urban district that processes the ability to sustain teacher capacity, requires a complex set of skills and competencies that are multi-faceted. These qualities include knowledge, effective communication and commitment.

What is Tutoring? Tutoring is a form of teaching and learning relationship with students and teachers. It is important as a tutor to promote independent learning this way students are able to do things on their own. A tutor should help students in ways to make students more capable of helping themselves to reduce their need for continual help. Tutors should never do the homework for students; instead, tutoring is about helping tutees become more self-achievers with their study and assignments. Tutors should be an example to their tutees by promoting that they like to help others and encourage all tutees that they can do good things too.

Effectively teaching math and science in today's classroom I think that it's important as an educator to truly understand the task in which is at hand. We are no longer dealing with a classroom where we have typical students that are joining us daily, we are now having the joy of experiencing a classroom that regardless of your ability or disability to learn you are a part of a general education curriculum.

The technique also holds that associating learning activities with a certain reward such as monetary rewards and promises for better grades, adversely affects the learning process and negatively motivates the students to learn

The analytical approach had four main components: 1) Analysis of quantitative observation and survey data to identify underlying dimensions of effective classroom practice, 2) the use of NVivo (a computer-as sited analysis package) to analyze qualitative interviews and detailed observation field notes, 3) the development of analytical matrices at the teacher level, and 4) the creation of individual teacher profiles (Kingston, Sammons, Day and Regan, 2011).

The need for tutors is overwhelming. Tutors help fill the gap between the teachers and the students. With so many students in each classroom, the teacher can't give each student the one-on-one attention that some students need. This is where tutors come in to play. Tutors have been a key instrument ineducation since as far back as the 1500's (Gordon 9). Tutoring is almost as old as educating children. Tutoring younger students is also still going strong in the twentieth century. Today it is more~important than ever due to the increase in students and low budgets that some schools have. As stated by Edward E. Gordon in his book, Centuries of Tutoring" Schoolinghas dominated the twentieth century, but tutoring still holds an important

You graduate kindergarten to go on to elementary school. Finishing elementary school leads directly to middle school. Completing middle school provides a lovely segue into high school. And finally, graduating from high school leads to… well, what now?

There are three main approaches to the processes of teaching; behaviourism, constructivism and social constructivism (Pollard et al., 2014). Behaviourism is a model by which the teacher is dominant and leads teaching by instructing the student while the student is passive in input (Pollard et al., 2014). This contrasts with constructivism and social constructivism, in which the student is actively engaged and learning is able to happen independent of teaching. Constructivism is a model by which the student is

The topic of the first six weeks’ study is mainly educational philosophy. I would like to relate what I learned during the last six weeks’ to my learning experience and reflect on my own educational experience. To be specific, I would like to engage with Whitehead and his theory of “inert ideas” and explore the possibility of making students more interested in the learning process.