Information for Tutors

• We reccomend that the first session be one hour long

• Spend 5-10 minutes getting to know your student

  • ask them questions and be comfortable

• Tell them about yourself; your hobbies, what sports you play, what grade you are in, etc.

  • If you like you can have an icebreaker game

• Get to know the parents and be comfortable with them

  • You will be communicating a lot with the parents, so it is a good idea to talk to them in the first session

• Talk about what times and days you are comfortable tutoring and what subjects

  • This will help you set a good schedule

• Create a homework folder and report card folder for the student

  • talk to the parents if they want homework to be assigned

  • tell them about how often report cards will be sent

• Explain to them about the saftey

  • If a student is less than 10 years old, they must supervise the meeting

  • let them know that all meetings are being recorded for volunteer hour calculation purposes

    • if they are uncomfortable with this, please feel free to email us

• Tell them about the diagnostic test

• Let them take the test

  • grade the test on you own time and determine the lesson plans for the next sessions

• At the very first session, create a diagnostic test (we will provide samples) to see where the student is academically

• Based on this, create your lesson plans

-Lesson Plans should look like this

- Each session should have its own lesson plan and with it should be linked all the worksheets/activities that you are planning to do

• Many times, students don't recieve the encouragement that they are looking for. Encouragement is the best form of motivation

• Here are a few ways to encourage and motivate your students:

You’ve got it made! Sensational! You’re doing fine. Super! You’ve got your brain in gear today. Good thinking. That’s right! That’s better. Good going. That’s good! Excellent! Wonderful! You are very good at that. That was first class work. That’s a real work of art. Good work! That’s the best ever. Superb! Exactly right! You did that very well. Good remembering! You’ve just about got it. Perfect! You’ve got that down pat. You are doing a good job! That’s better than ever. You certainly did well today. That’s it! Much better! Keep it up! Now you’ve figured it out. Fine! Outstanding! Great! Nice going. You’re really improving. I knew you could do it. Fantastic! You are learning a lot. Congratulations! Tremendous! Good going. Not bad. That’s great. I’m impressed. Keep working on it; you’re improving. Congratulations, you got it right! You must have been practicing. Now you have it. You did a lot of work today. That’s it. You are learning fast. Marvelous! I like that. Good for you! Cool! Way to go. Couldn’t have done it better myself. Now that’s what I call a fine job. You’ve just about mastered that. Beautiful! You’ve got the hang of it!

• We will update you when we finalze what platform we will be using! :)

• If you are an 8th grader or an highschooler volunteering and tutoring, you will recieve community service hours for your work

  • We will give you your hours at the end of the session

• You are required to fill out a form, that you will recieve, which will require you to log your hours

• You are also required to submit the recording of your tutoring session

  • If you do not, you will not recieve hours

• Lastly, thank you for dedicating your time to helping inspire young minds!