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Taipei American School National Honor Society -- Tutoring - Tutoring Guide

NHS Tutoring Guide

I. Contract

Process
1. The National Honor Society,Taipei American School Chapter, has established a Tutoring Committee to work with the Adviser in coordinating society promotion of scholarship by tutoring students.
  1. Requests for tutors are made through the counseling office in lower, middle and upper schools.(NHS tutor request/commitment form)
  2. Advisor and Tutoring Committee to coordinate tutors, advise teachers of activity, monitor the tutor and offer needed assistance.
  3. Individual evaluation to be done at the end of each commitment and program evaluation to be done annually by society.
Time
1. Determine whether the amount of tutoring is to be daily, bi-weekly, or as needed.
2. Set completion goal, e.g., one quarter, three weeks, school year, etc.
3. Check with counselor/teacher monitoring tutoring regularly.
Priorities
1. Determine what takes priority over the tutoring time for both parties.
2. Determine what subjects should be the first addressed.
3. Within the content area, make sure you are addressing the most outstanding need; i.e. don't help with reading if there is a paper overdue.
4. Verify your priorities with the teacher of the subject you are tutoring.

II. Content Areas:

English
1. Writing
  1. Brainstorm ideas of content, organization.
  2. Review editing techniques - discuss errors. DO NOT EDIT unless specifically approved by teacher. In that case unedited work, as well as assisted work must be presented to teacher.
  3. Teach lacking grammar skills using handbooks available from English.
  4. Ask questions that allow the student/writer to add/delete/expand information to make his piece clearer to you or his audience.
2. Reading
  1. Have the student read aloud to you.
  2. Do comprehension checks for main idea, new vocabulary.
  3. Assist with questions on text but don't answer the questions.
3. Projects
  1. Use the library to teach research skills.
  2. Assist with bibliography development.
  3. Teach how to scan material for making notes.
  4. Teach how to put material together.
4. Oral reports
  1. Teach basic speaking techniques
    - Body: feet apart (below shoulders), back straight, head high, head turning to take in the entire audience, eye contact.
    - Voice: speak slowly, emphasizing important parts of speech; enunciate clearly and concisely; listen to your voice on a tape recorder and analyze tone quality and variation.
    - Time: use a stop watch. speak in front of a mirror, deliver speech until it is comfortable for you.
  2. Check for unnecessary content
  3. Discourage over-reading
  4. Question to make sure the tutee fully understands material.
History
1. Written
  1. Clarify amount of assistance to be given with teacher.
2. Reading
  1. Teach outlining skills; each heading in the chapter is part of outline.
  2. Anything in bold or italics should be noted and learned.
  3. Read everything on the page; captions under photos are often test items.
  4. Use English guidelines as appropriate.
3. Projects
  1. Use English guidelines as appropriate.
4. Oral reports
  1. Use humor, role-playing or period costumes.
  2. Use English guidelines as appropriate.
Science
1. Assist with labs as needed, but make sure the student is learning the concepts.
2. Reading
  1. Use the standard textbook approach for science textbooks
  2. Have students develop notes (cards) of illustrations and concepts that can be drawn. (copy from book). These cards take a long time, but can be used for nightly review and exam preparation.
3. Test
  1. Review class notes and past tests.
Math
1. Assist with concepts.
2. Show them how to solve problems and provide practice.
3. Review the student's class notes to assure that they are thorough and understood.
Language
1. Listen to the student and correct pronunciation.
2. Assist with, but don't do assignments.
3. Help with flash cards, grammar reviews, chapter reviews.
4. Practice dialogues.
5. Use English content area guidelines.

III. Organizational Skills/Study Habits

Time Management
1. Determine student's current study schedule and assist in improving.
2. Consider all activities and assist with prioritizing responsibilities and activities.
Notebook Organization
1. Assist student with organizing materials.

Check notes. If their English level isn't high enough to listen and take notes, review the situation with your monitor. Buddy-notes, teacher notes, texts the lectures are taken from are ways to obtain the appropriate notes for the student and maybe available.

Tutor in English. With the exceptions of explaining a concept that the student would not otherwise understand, or tutoring a foreign language, Taipei American School policy is to use English.

Make sure you don't cross the line of doing the student's work. Our goal is not product, but process. We want the student to learn how to fish, not just eat the fish we hand him. Teachers know when a student's work is done by someone other than the student. Teach the student to help him/herself.

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Outline

I. Contract
    A. Process
    B. Time
    C. Priorities

II. Content
    Areas
    A. English
    B. History
    C. Science
    D. Math
    E. Language

III. Study Habits
A. Time Management
B. Notebook Organization

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• Tutoring
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• Assignment
• Feedback
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