TEAMS Tutoring In Schools
Education 457 Spring 2026
Leadership in Multicultural Tutoring
Education 557 Spring 2026
Weekly Classes meet in ILC N 111, Tuesdays 4-6:30 p.m.
TEAMS' wiki is the course techbook; there is no textbook.
Office hours by appointment Wednesday, Thursday, Friday.
Email sae@umass.edu or rwm@educ.umass or speak with instructors after class Tuesday.
TEAMS
Together Everyone Achieves More Success
1. Tutoring Others' Learning
20 hours in person or virtually
Education 457 students tutor
20 hours a semester, 2 hrs. each week on a schedule.
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
Tutoring Others and Tutors for Teachers
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 Your Self - 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 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.
Self - Learning Prerequisites
The learning cannot be something you are required to do for another course.
Choose one or two things; do not change topic areas weekly or occasionally.
You must have materials and a 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 TEAMS' 4pm class begins.
Each week there will be
- READING short articles and text on the wiki page of the week;
- VIEWING videos or HEARING podcasts for learning resources;
- CREATING materials from your imagination and experiences;
- REFLECTING and ANSWERING questions in weekly assignments in your learning log document by 4 p.m. Tuesdays.
4. Attending/Participating in Weekly Tuesday Classes
Weekly classes begin 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 Spring 2026
PART 1: Tutors as Learners
PART 2: Tutoring READING, WRITING AND MATH
PART 3: Reinventing Teaching and Learning in Schools
PART 4: TRANSFORMING LEARNING FOR ALL
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Education 457 (TEAMS Tutoring) addresses requirements for the following academic programs
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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
- 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.
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.
How to Talk So Kids Can Learn at Home and in School -- Faber and Mazlish
https://content.fimsschools.com/academy.fims.org.pk/How%20To%20Talk%20So%20Kids%20Can%20Learn%20(Adele%20Faber,%20Ela....pdf
Podcast Recommendations from ISTE
TED Radio Hour
NPR Science Friday NPR
NPR Fresh Air
NPR How I Built This
NPR Radiolab
NPR Hidden Brain
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.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License
CDB! link through Amazon
Fall 2025 TEAMS Learning Log
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1k2Bj630_7a9g856PklsZzyijnaGRNIY2DLustS8diGg/copy
Fall 2025 TEAMS Pre-course Survey
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1wV2KQIEgSTfKcxO3vNWkY6auP4L6nmFn8SU_4jmfetk/edit
Spring 2026 TEAMS Tutoring Hours Sharing Form
https://forms.gle/6mEX3DkyKoLSXa719
Five College America Reads/Counts Program
Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Outlook Handbook
Final REFLECTION ABOUT LEARNING
Final REFLECTION ABOUT LEARNING
Poetry Writing Activities from TEAMS Writing Week
Toy Theatre Snowflake
RESOURCES FOR
American Indian/First American Dwellings Makerspace The Late We:Wa Google Doodle
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