As tutors, it is extremely important for you to have easy access to resources to help you develop strong tutoring skills and tools to help you maximize the effectiveness of your tutoring sessions. The following are links selected to help you work effectively with your tutees and to increase your own understanding and skills. Please contact Maija Braaten with questions or to provide further explanation of the information.
PowerPoint on Beginning and Ending a Tutoring Session
http://www4.ncsu.edu/unity/lockers/users/f/felder/public/ILSdir/styles.htm
Insightful information on different learning
styles.
http://www.vark-learn.com/english/index.asp
Use the VARK assessment to discover more
about your dominant learning styles and how
that affects how you tutor.
http://www.nancho.net/corperson/wilguide.html
This is a good resource with general
information and ways to help facilitate effective group
tutoring sessions/study groups.
http://www.howtostudy.org/resources.php
A fantastic resource for tips related to
study skills and studying in general.
This information is beneficial for working
with your tutees and for your own benefit!
http://www.muskingum.edu/~cal/database/
General and content-specific learning styles
and strategies to help get the most out of
your tutoring time. It provides
general study skills strategies to help
tutors work with students who need special
assistance in these areas.
http://www.studygs.net/index.htm
Excellent information on how to study and
other tutoring resources.
http://www.ucc.vt.edu/lynch/TMQuiz.htm
An online time management quiz. This
can be helpful for you or for your tutees'
to take to see how well you manage your
time.
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=533116
A great site that gives information on
learning styles/modalities in general and
specific information for tutoring Biology.
http://www.emc.maricopa.edu/faculty/farabee/BIOBK/BioBookTOC.html
http://www.biology-online.org
These sites provide different ways of
explaining and examining basic biological
processes for introductory classes.
http://www.biology.arizona.edu/
The Biology Project website that provides a
wealth of information on biology topics.
http://www.sparknotes.com
A helpful chemistry resource with summaries
about reactions, stoichiometry, and ions.
http://www.pinkmonkey.com
A lot of prudent chemistry information that
is more detailed and has study guides.
http://www.gcsechemistry.com/index1.htm
Interactive periodic table and other great
basic information for non-science majors.
http://chemistry.about.com/library/blproblems.htm?PM=ss14_chemistry
This site provides an index of different
mathematically based chemistry problems with
examples for your reference. It also
has links to other chemistry sites.
http://www.pinkmonkey.com/studyguides/subjects/eco/contents.asp
An excellent site for reviewing and studying
macroeconomic concepts.
http://economics.about.com/
Links to lots of good general economics
information.
Foreign Languages Tutoring Resources
http://www.wordreference.com/
A fantastic online dictionary for French,
Spanish, German, and other languages.
http://www.lexilogos.com/francais_langue_dictionnaires.htm
A French-to-French dictionary site.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/
A fantastic website for information, blogs,
and links related to French, German, and
Spanish.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/languages/learn/index.shtml
Great tips for learning a foreign language
in general.
http://www.lemonde.fr/
A link to the French newspaper, Le Monde.
http://www.french-art.com/index.asp
A site devoted to French art.
http://www.colby.edu/~bknelson/SLC/index.php
A great site for Spanish grammar information
and exercises as well as cultural
information.
http://www.studyspanish.com/
A lot of excellent general information,
quizzes, and activities for Spanish.
History Tutoring Resources
http://www.princeton.edu/~pressman/history.htm
A link to Princeton University's
comprehensive site related to all subjects
in history.
http://www.library.vanderbilt.edu/central/history.html
A fantastic site with links to all kinds of
history-related topics and resources.
Mathematics Tutoring Resources
http://www.educ.uidaho.edu/bestpractices/peer_train_math.html
An excellent site with tips for tutoring
mathematics.
http://www.mathwords.com
A link to an online dictionary of
mathematical terms.
http://www.math.utah.edu/~pa/math/polya.html
Information on solving mathematical
problems.
http://www.homeschoolmath.net/online/math_help_tutoring.php
Math help, homework help, and online
tutoring resources
Political Science Tutoring Resources
http://www.un.org/english/
A link to the United Nation's homepage that
gives excellent information for
international and comparative politics.
It has a lot of statitics and current news.
http://www.house.gov/ and
http://www.senate.gov/
Links to information on the US Senate and
the House of Representatives that contains
current information on issues.
http://psych.athabascau.ca/html/aupr/students.shtml
A huge site that provides a wealth of
information about psychology in general and
resources for tutoring and teaching
psychology.
http://www.sociosite.net/topics/sociologists.php
Excellent general information about famous
sociologists and sociological subject
matter.
http://www.asanet.org/index.cfm
Link to the American Sociological
Association with links to journals and
valuable information about sociology in
general.
Beginning and Ending a Tutoring Session
Click
here to access the PowerPoint
Presentation on how to effectively begin and
end a tutoring session.