PR Tutors: March 2010

Monday, March 29, 2010

Math Brain Teaser

Here is a cool guy, Video Math Teacher

http://fr.video.yahoo.com/watch/6467936/16769731

He has a series of brain teasers that are just fun to use to warm up the brain when you are doing a math lesson.

All you tutors doing math, check some of his lessons out too, he has some good explanations.

TV and Literacy

http://www.tv411.org/qt/

This is pretty cute. The story of a chef who had trouble with literacy. He explains ratio really well and is just charming.

After you have looked at this, go back to the site home and explore some of the other good resources.

Monthly Reports for CALL

If you are working with me, Deb, the monthly tutor-learner report is due for just after the end of the month. Linda's tutors don't fill this out, just my gang please.

Check your in box for mail, I have already sent one out to you, but let me know if you want me to send it to you again.

(This is what it looks like)

Call

Community Literacy & Learning

Learner and Tutor Monthly Report

To be completed by learners AND tutors together

Report for ______________________________________

Month year

Learner ________________ Tutor ___________________

Which of the following locations did you sue for your tutoring sessions?

Community Resource Centre

Family Place

Book shop

Model Community

Approximately how many hours did you spend per week in your sessions?

Learner ____________ (including homework)

Tutor ____________ (including prep)

What did you work on this month?

___________________________________________________

What do you plan to work on next month?

___________________________________________________

Please list the learning resources that you found most useful this month?

___________________________________________________

What other learning resources would be helpful?

___________________________________________________

Did you use any of the resources at:

VIU

Powell River Public Library

Can you recommend any resources for our program?

___________________________________________________

What worked well in your tutor/learner partnership this month?

___________________________________________________

What presented challenges this month?

___________________________________________________

Is there anything else we can do to support your partnership?

___________________________________________________

Would any workshops be useful to you?

Tutors

Learners

Thank you for filling this out.

Deb Calderon

Coordinator CALL

Any other thoughts or ideas you have please feel free to leave them here.

I found this little section in a good tutoring book (http://www.nald.ca/Clr/demyst/chapter6.htm#start). I think it reminds us of how important it is to keep working with the learner on positive gains.

Help the learner recognize how much they are learning and how much progress they have made by :

Keeping a progress chart of new words learned;
Creating a portfolio of their work, dating each piece to show progress over time;
Reminding them of the gains they have made;
Giving them an opportunity to practice their new skills in meaningful situations (ie. practicing alphabetizing by looking things up in a phone book, index, dictionary, encyclopedia, etc.);
Having them read to children, elders or others as they are able to;
Rewarding them with a certificate of achievement at certain times in the program, especially when specific goals have been achieved;
Keeping a dialogue journal in which they reflect upon their learning experiences. You respond by affirming their feelings, praising their progress, and encouraging them. The fact that you can dialogue with each other in writing will be rewarding in itself.

Thursday, March 18, 2010

Big Honking ESL Resource Site

http://www.nald.ca/resource/educational/category.asp?cat=9

Wow, there are so many links here for you ESL folks that you can be busy for quite a while. Take a look. I will find a favourite soon.

http://www.eslpartyland.com/dating/advice.htm

All right my favourite, it is ESL party land, where you can learn the language of cool, including dating. Fun and pretty relevant.

Wednesday, March 17, 2010

English grammar

http://www.englishpage.com/

We have listed this site before, but if you have an ESL student have another look at it. You can play games with verb tenses and it will give you lots of ideas for english and grammar.

Find anything good let me know.