Tutor Training Links

Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory Web-based Tutor Training

What you'll experience in this unit is a series of virtual tutoring sessions. At the end of each interaction, you will be prompted to make a decision about a tutoring challenge or to move on and explore the next interaction.

Inclusion Teaching Strategies By the Renaissance Group: Nine Types of Adaptations

"A bonus associated with learning to make modifications is that you can then use these to help all learners. Not only will this help you reinforce the idea that all people learn differently, but it will also help you teach that everyone needs extra help once in a while." -- Golomb & Hammeken. (January/February 1996). Learning.

Lindamood-Bell Learning Processes Multi-media

Lindamood-Bell was recently featured on CNN's Anderson Cooper's "Teach your Children" series. An aid tutors a student with dyslexia. Shaywitz, a leader in dyslexia research, describe new understandings about the dyslexic reader.

CAST Teaching Every Student, Chapter 2: What Brain Research Tells Us About Learner Differences

In this chapter, you will learn how familiarity with brain research can help you understand your students better.

CAST Teaching Every Student, Chapter 4: What is Universal Design for Learning?

The key to helping all students achieve is identifying and removing barriers from our teaching methods and curriculum materials. Drawing from brain research and using new media, the UDL framework proposes that educators strive for three kinds of flexibility:

  • To represent information in multiple formats and media.
  • To provide multiple pathways for students' action and expression.
  • To provide multiple ways to engage students' interest and motivation.

Edutopia.org Interviews: Emotional Intelligence

Emotional IQ prepares students for learning and impact self esteem (Select "Emotional IQ" from the "Browse by Video Topics")

DIBELS

Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills (DIBELS) are a set of standardized, individually administered measures of early literacy development. They are designed to be short (one minute) fluency measures used to regularly monitor the development of pre-reading and early reading skills.

Literacy Links

America Reads

The America Reads Challenge is a grassroots national campaign challenging every American to help all our children learn to read.

Literacy Volunteers of America, Inc. (LVA)

A fully integrated national network of local, state, and regional literacy organization providing student-focused tutoring, one-to-one tutoring, or tutoring in small groups, at no charge to the student. Our mission is to change lives through literacy.

Retired Senior Volunteer Program (RSVP)

RSVP volunteers serve in a diverse range of activities in our community. Part of Senior Corps, a network of national service programs that provides older Americans the opportunity to apply their life experience to meeting community needs.

Literacy.org

A gateway to electronic resources and tools for the national and international youth and adult literacy communities.

National Institute for Literacy (NIFL)

A federal organization that shares information about literacy and supports the development of high-quality literacy services so all Americans can develop essential basic skills.

Media Literacy Review (MLR)

A biannual online resource for educators and others interested in children, adolescents, and media.

Center for Media Literacy (CML)

Dedicated to promoting and supporting media literacy education as a framework for accessing, analyzing, evaluating and creating media content, CML works to help citizens, especially the young, develop critical thinking and media production skills needed to live fully in the 21st century media culture.

National Center for Family Literacy (NCFL)

By providing professional development services, research and policy analysis, NCFL annually trains more than 5,000 practitioners and reaches thousands more through its advocacy efforts, working to expand the literacy opportunities for all families nationwide.

Trelease on reading.com

Jim Trelease's efforts in helping children make books into friends, not enemies - with excerpts from his books, data on his lecture schedule, book reviews, and information on ordering his audios, videos and books.

National Literacy Trust

Through our web-based literacy support network, now to be strengthened by an emphasis on social inclusion, we pull together the best ideas and information to help everyone share good practice.