Tutoring Observations

Heads Up!

Krista, Sue or Bryan will soon contact you about observing one of your tutoring sessions. The purpose of this observation is mainly to learn the techniques you are using to tutor and to observe your interactions with your student. As we train new tutors to work with adult literacy students, we want to give them tips and suggestions from those working on the front lines—you. The purpose is not to critique or criticize your tutoring style, although we may have some ideas for you as well as suggestions for materials you could use to tutor. We will also be happy to answer any questions you might have for us.

Project Read will soon be applying for national accreditation through ProLiteracy America. One area we will be measured on is "Instruction." Project Read staff members must show evidence that:

1. Instruction is student-centered and outcome-oriented.
2. Instruction is culturally sensitive.
3. Instruction encompasses a variety of methods, materials, and techniques, possibly including assistive technology.
4. Tutors/instructors and students collaborate in the instructional process. Examples:
   a. mutually determine goals
   b. negotiate what happens in the lesson
   c. both students and tutors/instructors conduct self-assessments of the instruction
5. The organization promotes and supports the use of written lesson plans and evaluation.
6. The tutor/instructor and student collaboratively evaluate the instructional process.
7. The organization monitors instruction and provides examples of how it does so.
8. The organization evaluates instructional services as a whole (objective and subjective data). The evaluation influences changes in the organization’s instruction and programming.

These tutoring observations will move us that much closer to becoming a nationally accredited tutoring program—for the cause!