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LEARNING TIPS
April 2010 Tutor Coffee
Tutor Ideas:
- A discussion took place about the usage of lower level children’s bilingual books and how they reinforce learning skills for our students when they are able to read with their children.
- Student, Ellie Christianson, who is from Peru, is a teacher of computer skills in Spanish, should any of our students show an interest in learning computer usage. Contact Donna for information.
- Janet Bullock shared a teaching tool she uses with animal cards to encourage students to respond correctly using verbs such as “have”.
- Louise Beesley offered the tool of checking out children’s books, from the Grass Valley Library, to use with our students. Art Katz said his student reads to his daughter and they discuss the book bilingually
- Ellen Hagan suggested that to improve student writing skills, that we reverse the process of correcting already written student work and present to our student’s incorrect written work and ask that they provide the corrections.
- Shari Coats shared a game she plays with students called “word ping pong” used to teach sound skills. An example being the end sound of the word “milk” and having the student respond with another word with the same ending sound.
June 6, 2009 TUTOR LUNCHEON
- Janet Bullock shared songs such as “Head and Shoulder, Knees and Toes” and some Bingo card games with us. Janet also uses a recorder to introduce words and sounds with spacing allowed for the student to repeat the new words/sounds.
- Nancy Guenther is wonderfully resourceful in finding interesting books to introduce to her students and brought along a huge selection for us to peruse.
- Helen Kranz has also been extremely resourceful in finding free publications and websites that she uses with her student. Look for some new listings on our website to introduce you to these tools.
- Mimi Lofgren shared with us some of her tricks of the trade, specifically the tool she uses to teach contractions to her student. An interesting and simple take on a flash card.
- Judi Kreinick shared several variations on the bingo game that she uses with her student, which helps him recognize the word, relate it to the picture, along with colors and numbers. This handout was provided to all.
- Louise Beesley brought with her a great selection of books, tapes and tools from our very own resource library. Tutors were able to check out these items before departing our luncheon.
- Then we all participated in an exercise led by Myra Arstein, utilizing pictorial poster boards, to engage ourselves in the development of questions to present to our students as an educational aid in developing their English language skills.
Each of the six teams had five minutes to develop questions based on the picture provided, and it was truly amazing to see what developed in such a short period of time. Our tutors are absolutely the most creative individuals and most generous of their time and effort.
- Judi then presented the new Student Progress Report, along with examples of how to use this. Tutors are being asked to fill in this report at least twice a year and submit it to your Resource Tutor. This report is extremely valuable for two reasons: it is an excellent tool to help keep tutor and student on track with lessons and progress and, secondly, it provides extremely valuable and necessary information that PiELL needs in order for us to apply for grants. Additional information on this Student Progress Report will be forthcoming by the end of next week via email to all tutors.
Not only did we leave the luncheon full of delicious food and cake, but we also left with new tools to use with our students, a variety of books and teaching aids available from the PiELL library, a new selection of websites locations, bingo games, poster boards, and other printed handout tools.
It will be interesting to get feedback about how our students and tutors respond to these new training tools. Thanks to all of you, we, as an organization, are flexible in how we reach our students and make their learning experience relevant to their specific needs with our one-on-one tutoring methods.
Once again, thank you for all you do!! |
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