Delivering an Effective Tutoring Session

Delivering an

Effective Tutoring

Session

From the “Hi” to the “Bye”

Open Ended

In your own words: What is tutoring? Be sure to write
what tutoring consists of.

Tutoring

Tutoring is:

●Additional academic and/or skills development support in a specific subject by a
subject matter expert

●Usually happens in a one-on-one or small group (< 5 students) setting

○Could also happen at a learning center in a larger (> 5 students) setting

●Tutoring is not:

○Homework help

○The replacement of a course

●Tutoring consists of:

○Additional, special and/or basic instruction

○Curricular practice

○Academic feedback

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is true about tutoring?

• Tutoring is homework help

• Tutoring can take replace the teaching of a course

• Tutoring consists of skill development support

• Tutoring can only happen in a one-to-one setting

To be an effective tutor

You must have an
effective Plan

You must give
effective Practice

You must give
effective Instruction

You must give
effective Feedback

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is false about what you need to be an effective tutor

• You must have an effective Plan

• You must be familiar with the student's teacher

• You must give effective Instruction

• You must give effective Practice

• You must give effective Feedback

An effective plan

Structural Plan

A plan of the components of an

effective tutoring session

Collaborative Plan

A plan, based on the goal of the
tutee(s) which outlines how you

will spend your time in a
specific tutoring session

The structural plan

The

“Who” (
or the
“Hi”)

The introduction
or the greeting

What have you

learned? What are
you doing in class?

What are your

goals for tutoring?

Creating the

collaborative plan

and explaining

why

The actual session

“the nitty gritty”

The

“What”

The

“Where

and
Why?

The

“How”

The
“Bye”

The summary and

next steps

The collaborative plan

Tutee: “Hey tutor…so,
today in class we were
working on finding
conditional probability
from a table. To be
honest, I was completely
lost in class. I took notes
and we have a homework
assignment due
tomorrow. Can you help
me out?

Tutor: Okay, so I see that you
hope to be able to complete
your homework assignment on
conditional probability with
fluency? If so, let’s spend
about 10-15 minutes reviewing
conditional probability. Once
we’re good there, we’ll do
some practice that I have
prepared. From there, we can
begin working on your
homework. Sounds like a
plan?

The “Where” and the “Why”

The collaborative plan (you try)

Tutee: “Hey tutor…so, today
in class we were working on
explaining the main idea of
a text using supporting
details. I mean, I know
what a main idea is but I
struggle with the using
supporting details part. I
don’t have any homework
tonight but I have a test on
this in two days. Can you
help me out?

Tutor:

The “Where” and the “Why”

Open Ended

Write a response as a tutor to the tutee based on this picture

The collaborative plan (you try)

Tutee: “Hey tutor…so, today
in class we were working on
explaining the main idea of
a text using supporting
details. I mean, I know
what a main idea is but I
struggle with the using
supporting details part. I
don’t have any homework
tonight but I have a test on
this in two days. Can you
help me out?

Tutor: “I see. So your goal is to be
able to identify supporting details
from the text that support the
main idea of a text. One thing
that helps me is writing out the
main idea as a margin note then
underlining anything that
supports. I can demonstrate this
method then we’ll spend about 20
minutes practicing this method
together on a set of tasks I have
prepared then the rest of the
session I will let you practice on
your own with some other texts I
have access to.

The “Where” and the “Why”

To be an effective tutor

You must have an
effective Plan

You must give
effective Practice

You must give
effective Instruction

You must give
effective Feedback

The structural plan

The

“Who” (
or the
“Hi”)

The introduction
or the greeting

What have you

learned? What are
you doing in class?

What are your

goals for tutoring?

Creating the

collaborative plan

and explaining

why

The actual session

“the nitty gritty”

The

“What”

The

“Where

and
Why?

The

“How”

The
“Bye”

The summary and

next steps

What do

you know?

Effective Instruction

Effective instruction is inquiry based

Students should do the majority of the talking

and thinking

What have
you done

so far?

What can
we learn
from what
we’ve done

so far?

Where we’re
going

From here, we will practice a
math topic with effective
instruction. I will then go to
effective practice then effective
feedback. We will then practice
effective session
summaries/closers.