Home Tutor Training

WELCOME

Session 1The Context of Home Tutoring

Culture and Communication

Coffee Shop

What’s in a name....What is your first or given name?How do you write it in your language?What does your name mean?Why was this name given to you?Do you like your name? Why or why not?Do you have a nickname?In your country what happens to your name when you

get married?How would you/did you decide how to name your

children?

About the Home Tutor Schemepage 7

Adult Migrant English Program (AMEP)Migrants and refugees from NESB (Non English Speaking Background)

with basic ESL (English as a Second Language) skills & certain visa classesFunding by DIAC - hours (510 hours in most cases)

Home Tutor Students – common scenariosstudents not in any daytime AMEP class students attending AMEP community class (10 hours or less)students attending AMEP evening class (10 hours or less)students doing distance learning (DL)

Home Tutoring Contexts p. 16

One to one in student’s home

Meeting your student in a public place (library, CIT)

What to expect from the Home Tutor Scheme page. 16

HTS Expectations Page 17

Please note….Let the HTS office know if you are unable to continue

tutoring or if there is/has been a period of time where you have not seen your student.

Let us know if there is any aspect of your tutoring relationship that you are dissatisfied with.

Lesson Record Sheet – bi monthly Confidentiality

Our aim is to help our students gain independence.

Task page 8

What is the role of the home tutor?

Our Students – p.9

Normal Life Migrant Experience

Refugee Experience

Host country’s expectations of newcomers

The Migrant Experience

Task – pp 10 - 11

Settling in a New Country pp12-15

Dot points on page 12

Sonny’s story

Compare with Svetlana’s story (p 14)

What is culture shock? p. 15

Everyone is different, but people may feel:disorientedconfusedand may experience extreme emotional reactions

What is culture?

Task pages 18 - 19

Cultural Rules

Think about the cultural values of your student

Think about what things may be strange

Think about what cultural norms to teach them

Think about…… p 22

Non verbal communication

1. Handout

2. Any others from different countries?

For Next WeekWorksheet

Reading – Unit 1

Reading - Unit 2- make a list of the main and/or most interesting points- make a list of any questions that you might have- in particular please look at:

p.3 – Beliefs about teaching and learningp.5 – Your own adult learning experiencep.8 – How do you like to learn best?