Tutor Resources

Tutoring Tips on the Web and Other Resources

 

College Reading and Learning Association: www.crla.net

 

A link to sites that promote academic success: http://www.uni.edu/walsh/linda7.html

 

Gallaudet University in Washington, D.C., offers suggestions for interacting with students who are deaf or blind, and the site also has two PowerPoint slideshows on multiple intelligences: http://depts.gallaudet.edu/TIP/manual/main/

 

University of Hawaii Honolulu Community College provides a number of tips on teaching and classroom management as well as communication skills and organizational techniques:

http://honolulu.hawaii.edu/intranet/committees/FacDevCom/guidebk/teachtip/teachtip.htm

 

Center of City College of San Francisco: http://www.ccsf.edu/services/LAC/lern101

 

Three Rivers Community College Connecticut. This link takes you directly to the college’s tutor training site:

http://www.trcc.commnet.edu/Ed_Resources/TASC/index.htm

 

San Francisco School Volunteers’ Tutoring Tips: Step-by-Step tutoring: http://www.sfsv.or/tutor2.html

 

TutorNation, a site with tutoring tips: http://www.tutornation.com/tips/index.htm

 

The Appalachian College Association Culpepper Project, an interactive and extensive training website for tutors (topics of interest—tutoring, writing, and ESL). Look at the Tutor.edu modules (1-14):

http://www.SPAN>montreat.edu/tutor/Default.htm

 

Tutoring groups:

http://www.wcer.wisc.edu/archive/cl1/CL/doingcl/DCL1.asp


Books and Other Resources

 

Capossela, Toni-Lee. The Harcourt Brace Guide to Peer Tutoring. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1998.

 

Gillespie, Paula and Neal Lerner. The Allyn and Bacon Guid to Peer Tutoring. 2nd ed. New York: Pearson and Longman, 2003.

 

*This is an old-standby and available in my office. Check it out!

 

Rabow, Jerome, Tiffani Chin, and Nina Fahimian. Tutoring Matters: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About How to Tutor. Temple UP,1999.

 

Simons, Janet A. and Donald B. Irwin. “Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs.”

 

http://honolulu.hawaii.edu/intranet/committees/FacDevCom/guidebk/teachtip/maslow.htm.

 

Zemke, Ron and Susan. “30 Things We Know For Sure About Adult Learning.”

http://honolulu.hawaii.edu/intranet/committees/FacDevCom/guidebk/teachtip/adult-3.htm.

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