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Tutoring In Schools
Education 497I 4 credits
(Becomes Education 457 in Fall 2023)
Leadership in Multicultural Tutoring
Education 597R 3 credits
(Becomes Education 557 in Fall 2023)
ILC Room N 111 Tuesdays 4-6:30 p.m.
Office hours: Wednesday, Thursday, Friday by appointment
Email sedwards@educ.umass.edu or speak with instructors after Tuesday's class.
WEEKLY LEARNING LOG
TEAMS Together Everyone Achieves More Success

1. Tutoring Others
Tutoring in Schools, Educ, 497I students tutor
20 hours in person or virtually with other learners 2 hrs. each week on a schedule.
Leadership in Multicultural Tutoring,
Educ 597I, does NOT do this tutoring.
Who might you tutor?
- younger or older sisters and brothers
- anyone in your extended family
- members of the community where you live
- students in an online tutoring program
- college students if you are a TA for a University course
America Reads/Counts Tutoring for Work Study Eligible Students
& ALL students who want to tutor in a school
Tutors for Teachers
If there are teachers who would like a tutor to help them prepare learning experiences for students in elementary, middle and high schools.
- You might be a resource person for a teacher and count those hours as tutoring others.
2. Tutoring Yourself
What would you choose to learn this semester if you could?

Tutoring in Schools, Educ, 497I students do 20 hours throughout the semester of self-tutoring, a regularly scheduled weekly experience.
Leadership in Multicultural Tutoring, Educ 597I, does 10 hrs. of self-tutoring.
What will you learn? Coding, yoga, juggling, skateboarding, math, poetry writing, baking, playing guitar, ukulele, or piano, knitting, crocheting, painting, drawing, playing digital games, exercise programs, calligraphy, basketball, golf, mixing or writing music.
Requirements for what you choose to learn:
- Your choice cannot be something you are required to do for another course.
- You have the materials and the place to do the weekly practice.
Learn more at Self Tutoring Ideas and Resources wiki page.

3. Weekly Reading, Viewing and Doing for Assignments
Each week ASSIGNMENTS are submitted BEFORE our 4pm class.
- Reading short articles and text on the wiki page of the week;
- Viewing/hearing videos and podcasts as learning resources;
- Submitting weekly assignments in a Google form Tuesdays by 4 p.m.
4. Attending/Participating in Weekly Class Meetings
Each weekly class begins at 4 pm promptly, ILC N 111.
The class format is small group interactive workshops and whole class experiences and a site meeting, a small group conversation with course site coordinators discussing learning in weekly tutoring of others and self-tutoring.

Email course instructors with questions and topics you want to discuss.
Robert Maloy
rwm@educ.umass.edu
Sharon Edwards
sedwards@educ.umass.edu
Schedule of Classes Spring 2023
Live links connect each week to online assignments.
PART 1: Tutoring Strategies and Scenarios
PART 2: Tutoring READING, WRITING AND MATH
MARCH 14 NO CLASS SPRING BREAK WEEK

PART 3: Students and Schools
APRIL 18 NO CLASS PATRIOTS DAY MINI-BREAK
PART 4: TRANSFORMING LEARNING FOR ALL
Education 497I (TEAMS: Tutoring in Schools) addresses requirements for these academic programs:
STEP Accelerated Masters Program (4 Plus 1)
This course serves as a Prerequisite for undergraduates who intend to apply for the Accelerated Masters degree in Secondary Teacher Education for mathematics, science, English/language arts and history teaching.

America Reads/Counts
This course works in partnership with the Five College America Reads/Counts Program

Undergraduate Minor in Education
This course fulfills a Domain 1: Teaching & Learning requirement for the Undergraduate Minor in Education
College of Education Community Education and Social Change Major
This course fulfills a course requirement in the Teaching and Learning/Pedagogy/Curriculum Domain 3 within the major.
Service Learning
This course is designated a Service-Learning (SL) course
Service-Learning is an approach to teaching that engages students in a mutually beneficial relationship with the local communities to enhance the academic and civic learning experience and benefit the community. The community-based work is defined in response to a need or aspiration presented by one or more partnering community organizations and for which core issues of impact, sustainability and reciprocity have been addressed. The course also includes preparation of students for service, engages the students in reflection on the service and assesses the student learning as well as the community impact.
Civic Engagement and Public Service Certificate
- SL (Service Learning Praxis) where the course connects the classroom and the larger world through service learning with a substantial civic engagement orientation.
- DP (Diverse Publics) where the course conducts an in-depth exploration of different constituencies in contemporary American society; specifically public schools.
Service-Learning at UMass Amherst is supported by UMass Civic Engagement and Service-Learning (CESL). UMass CESL promotes learning for life-long, engaged citizenship, partnering with communities on and off campus to work collectively for a more just society.

Open Educational Resources
This course participates in the University's Open Educational Resources initiative. All materials used in the course are freely available online.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License
TEAMS tutoring hours log template
TEAMS Tutoring Logs spring 22 (1).docx
Podcasts to inform concepts, knowledge and ideas introduced in TEAMS classes and in tutoring.
Podcast Recommendations from ISTE
TED Radio Hour
NPR Science Friday NPR
NPR Fresh Air
NPR How I Built This
Choose episodes to hear. Write a brief reflection of your learning about growth mindsets, multiple modes of learning, and building confidence by taking risks.
Final REFLECTION ABOUT LEARNING
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