Overview

A high percentage of students at the California Community Colleges are enrolled in courses designated as basic skills. By some estimates this number is as high as 70-90%. Many students lack essential academic study skills such as note taking, time management, test taking, active reading, etc. One of the challenges as a tutor is to find opportunities to address these essential academic skills within the context of a tutoring session when a student only wants to focus on the immediate question at hand. However, if we can help students strengthen these essential academic skills, then they'll be better prepared and more successful in their courses.

Instructions:

This assignment provides you with 9 short videos to watch. After this page, click on the first video "Tutoring Students with Disabilities, and then click the link at the top of the box, which will take you to the TED-ED website. Note, use Chrome or Firefox as opposed Internet Explorer. After watching each video, you'll be prompted to answer a few questions related to the video. Actually answering the questions and submitting your answers is optional; however, do take the time to look at and consider the questions. Note, that if you try to submit answers, you will be prompted to sign-in or create a TED.com account. However, you can click the question numbers on the top without actually creating the account. Follow the same steps for all nine videos.

Some of you "veteran" tutors have seen these videos before in previous training sessions. I suggest reviewing them again to refresh your memory. For the new folks, these videos should help to reinforce your own academic skill set as well as provide you with additional tools for helping the students you tutor.