Activities for First Tutoring Day!

What should we do for the first meeting of tutors and students? Should we all be together? Should students and tutors do something on their own, or should should it be a group activity? Post your thoughts...

High School Reading Not Challenging Enough?

Although this course is designed to help readers who are below grade level, I thought this article would be interesting to discuss. I want to know how you feel about the results of the study that shows reading materials and teacher expectations at high school are lower than they should be.

"It's clear that our high schools should be incorporating more complex reading materials into courses across the curriculum,"

"The impact of low expectations is devastating to students,"

"We have a moral imperative to give all students the opportunity to develop critical reading skills in high school."

These are the statements that stood out the most to me. Please share your thoughts. What has been your experience? Are you worried you haven't been challenged enough in the last two years of your education? I realize this article is meant for teachers but, I think you can handle it!

Learning Styles

Lots of paper in this lesson!! Save the copies you don't use!! Post your comments about the Learning Styles inventories on the blog. Just try it!!! It won't hurt, I promise. If you don't get on the blog by Friday's class you can do so in the BBT lab.

So... what is your style? Did you already know what style you were? What inventory did you like the best? Did you come up with the same results on different inventories? Which one would give you the most useful information about your student? Think about how will you introduce this to your students and how you would administer it.

How would you implement the Learning Style of your student into your lessons?

See you Thursday!

Regarding Phonics...

Regarding Friday's lesson...I hope the lesson on phonics wasn't too discouraging for everyone. Obviously we have to teach, and learn, letter sounds and letter combination sounds. I wanted you to get a sense of why some students may have trouble learning to read. We can't just rely on phonics. Be careful not to repeatedly ask your students to "sound it out". They may need to rely on other strategies. We will be going over more strategies next week. Have a great week end!