Education 457 Tutoring in Schools (redirected from Education 497I Tutoring in Schools)

There are always teachers, after-school programs, or other educational organizations 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 for Learning

20 hours on a regular/weekly schedule to learn something you want to learn.

Education 457 students invest 20 hours throughout the semester in self-tutoring, a regularly scheduled weekly learning experience.

Leadership in Multicultural Tutoring, Education 557, students do 10 hrs. of self-tutoring in the semester.

What could/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, speaking a new language.

Requirements for choosing what to learn:

Your choice cannot be something you are required to do for another course.

Choose one thing to learn; do not change topic areas weekly or occasionally.

You have the materials and the place to do the weekly practice.

See wiki page Self Tutoring Ideas and Resources .

3. Weekly Reading, Viewing and Doing Assignments

ASSIGNMENTS are completed each TUESDAY BEFORE our 4pm class begins.

Reading short articles and text on the wiki page of the week;

Viewing/hearing videos and podcasts as learning resources;

Completely answering all questions in weekly assignments in a Google learning log Tuesdays by 4 p.m.

4. Attending/Participating in Weekly Tuesday Classes

Each weekly class begins promptly at 4 pm, ILC N 111.

The class format is small group interactive workshops, whole class experiences

and site meetings, small group conversation with course site coordinators discussing weekly learning and progression of tutoring self and tutoring others.

Email course instructors any questions or topics you would like to discuss.

Robert Maloy

rwm@umass.edu

Sharon Edwards

sae@umass.edu

Schedule of Classes Fall 2024

PART 1: Foundations for Tutoring and Learning

Class 1 September 3: IN CLASS Introduction to TEAMS: TUTORING IN SCHOOLS

Class 2 September 10: First Assignment Multiple Modes of Learning, Mindsets and Mistakes

Class 3 September 17: Second Assignment Digital Connections to Montessori Principles for Learning

PART 2: Tutoring READING, WRITING AND MATH

Class 4 September 24: Third Assignment Tutoring Reading

Class 5 October 1: Fourth Assignment Tutoring Writing

Class 6 October 8: Fifth Assignment Tutoring Math (October 8 is Ada Lovelace Day)

PART 3: Students and Schools

Class 7 October 22: Sixth Assignment Universal Design for Learning

Class 8 October 29: Seventh Assignment Whose History Whose Science

Class 9 November 12: Eighth Assignment English Language Learners

Class 10 November 19: Ninth Assignment Impacts of Poverty on Learning

PART 4: TRANSFORMING LEARNING FOR ALL

Class 11 November 26: Tenth Assignment LGBTQIA Histories, Inclusive Language, Safe Schools & Classrooms

Class 12 December 3: Eleventh Assignment Diversity Through Culturally Relevant Anti-Racist Teaching & Learning

Class 13 December 10: Twelfth Assignment Envisioning Multicultural Schools

Education 457 TEAMS: Tutoring in Schools addresses requirements for the following 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.

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.

University Civic Engagement and Public Service Certificate

This course meets two requirements for the University's Civic Engagement 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.

Read about the teaching methods in TEAMS in Wikis, Workshops and Writing: Strategies for Flipping a Community Engagement Course, Journal of Educators Online, 11/1, (January, 2014).

America Reads/Counts

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

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

NPR Radiolab

Choose episodes to hear. Write a brief reflection of your learning from the resource. How does this resource inform you about growth mindsets, multiple modes of learning, and/or building confidence by taking risks.

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Final REFLECTION ABOUT LEARNING