Hello,

Hope you are finding this Tutor Blog useful and that it is providing you with some of the information you need to have a rewarding experience tutoring here. Please use this as your blog by posting questions and comments in the box below. The Tutor Blog only goes out to tutors actively volunteering. You will all see the comments and can respond to each other, this is a "Working Together..." blog and we would value your input! Remember you can always have access to this blog and all the class blogs via the Literacy Source Splash Page.

1. Tough Topics: A Roundtable Discussion

We ran the first discussion this week and had great attendance! We talked about topics that are and might be coming up in the next month and how to open up a space for discussion or comment with our students, either in the classroom or in tutoring. There were some great ideas and strategies generated.

If you missed the discussion here is a link to the slides: Tough Topics Slides

Please join us for our follow up discussion:

Tough Topics #2: Monday, November 9th, 2020 at 4pm 

Join Zoom Meeting

https://zoom.us/j/99127642336?pwd=YjRhNU13RzRLdFVwQU9jL01sSVAxUT09


2. Remote Tutoring Training

We launched the training last week and hope you will join the training course. If you already completed the training in July please consider joining Part 2 - the Zoom session. We plan to have a good hour dedicated to you working in pairs/small groups to go through the Teaching Kit scenarios and create remote activities. There are a lot of great resources in the Teaching Kits so there is always more to learn, and as experienced tutors you bring a great dynamic to the training.


Part #2 Zoom Training:

Friday, October 30th, 10am - 12:30pm. Register here


3. Student Typing Skills 

Many students have been asking for help with their typing skills. Are you interested in adding this digital component to your lessons or homework? Typing Club provides online keyboarding lessons and games for students who want to develop their typing skills. Join us in Zoom on Wednesday 10/21 at 3:30pm for an informal introduction to Typing Club where we will learn how to use this popular website in your tutoring sessions.

Wednesday, 10/21 at 3:30 - 4:30pm 

Join Zoom Meeting

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82049073709?pwd=MEJpRUNkeC9lYW9zeE9VaFlyTkd2dz09

 

As always, thank you so much for all you are doing!

Caroline