The Tutoring Cycle

Outcomes for Tutor Cycle To identify and use the three major steps of the

tutoring cycle

To identify the 12 steps of the tutoring cycle as applied to tutoring techniques

* Importance of establishing student-tutor and tutor-student relationship

Tutor’s Role vs. Tutor Cycle

The Tutor’s Role is about what a tutor is. Peer facilitator in teaching

and learning Facilitator of tutee insights Provider of student

perspective Provider of personalized

instruction Promoter of independent

learning Not the Professor

The Tutor Cycle is about what a tutor does. How does a tutor put Chapter 1 into action?

Establishes a relationship Set the climate Facilitate learning Structure

Questions/Exercise Where do you worship on Sunday? Why do you choose to worship there? Does it feel different from the first time you worshiped there?

What does this have to do with the tutoring cycle?

Have you ever been to a tutoring session? What did you experience? What did you expect? Based on that experience, what would you do differently? Would you recommend the tutor you met with to a friend?

Questions/Exercise - Write downEstablish some general rules What are some common themes between the

two scenarios?

What will keep bring tutees back?

What will make tutees tell others?

Three Categories of The Tutoring Cycle

THE 12 STEPS OF THE TUTOR CYCLE

BEGINNING STEPS TASK STEPS CLOSING STEPS

Step 1

Greeting and Climate Setting

Step 5

Set the Agenda For The Session

Step 9

Confirmation

Step 2

Identification of Task

Step 6

Addressing the Task

Step 10

What Next?

Step 3

Breaking the Task Into Parts

Step 7

Tutee Summary of Content

Step 11

Arranging and Planning the Next Session

Step 4

Identification of Thought Processes Which Underlie Task

Step 8

Tutee Summary of Underlying Process

Step 12

Closing and Good-bye

1. The Tutor Cycle (Beginning Steps 1-4)

1. Greet

9.

10.

2. Identify Task

3. Break Task Into Parts

4. Identify Thought Processes

5.

6.7.

8.

11.

12.

Beginning Steps

1. GreetInvitation to your space – hospitality

2. Identify Task develop purpose – helps in sense of accomplishment

3. Break Task Into Partsmakes it manageable – allows student confidence to build

4. Identification of Underlying Thought Processes explore and discover – allows students to learn how to learn

Unfortunately, the book says that Step 4 is one of the least practiced steps. The other is Step 8.

The Tutor Cycle (Task Steps 5-8)

1. Greet

9.

10.

2. Identify Task

3. Break Task Into Parts

4. Identify Thought Processes

5. Set an Agenda

6. Address the Task

7. Tutee Summary

of Content

8. Tutee Summary of Underlying Process

11.

12.

Task Steps5. Set the agenda for the session

Tasks are completed when there is an agenda – check listwhat needs to be accomplished and when it is accomplished

6. Addressing the task This will be covered in Chapters 3 and 4 – determine how the work will be done (you do this, I do that)

7. Tutee summary of content The “light bulb effect” vs. “the fake light bulb effect” – long term vs. short term memory – short term is the list of items while long term puts the list into action

8. Tutee summary of underlying process How the student will learn similar material independently – suggest strategies and have the student summarize those strategies

The Tutor Cycle1. Greet

9. Confirmation

10. What Next?

2. Identify Task

3. Break Task Into Parts

4. Identify Thought Processes

5. Set an Agenda

6. Address the Task

7. Tutee Summary

of Content

8. Tutee Summary of Underlying Process

11. Arranging and Planning the Next Session

12. Closing and Good- bye

Closing Steps

9. Confirmation reinforce specific accomplishments and thoughtful evaluations

10. What next?

What is the information learned good for? What might the next concept be?

11. Arranging and planning the next sessionSet the time and place (Alpha appoint. Book).

What will be covered?

Encouraging dependence? Shall we meet…? vs. Next time we will…

12. Closing and good-bye

Leave on a positive note. Thanks for coming and I’ll see you next time.

Benefits of the Tutor Cycle

1. Efficient and effective

2. Demystifies the tutoring process

3. Reinforces for the tutee practical approaches for learning

Conclusion

Ironically the steps (4 & 8) that do not occur naturally are the most important. They are important because they emphasize the critical thinking and that is the largest task the tutee needs to be involved in.

The main benefits of the tutoring cycle are: Structure Consistency Preparation