Welcome to the Course
Spring 2024 Learning Log
Spring 2024 Course Survey
Wolfeboro Camp School Summer 2024
March Madness Rotations Ticket
Tutoring In Schools (and in many other settings too)
Education 457 Spring 2024
Leadership in Multicultural Tutoring
Education 557 Spring 2024
Weekly Classes in ILC N111, Tuesdays 4-6:30 p.m.
Office hours by appointment Wednesday, Thursday, Friday
Email sedwards@educ.umass.edu or rwm@educ.umass or speak with instructors after Tuesday class.
WEEKLY ASSIGNMENT TO COPY INTO YOUR LEARNING LOG
TEAMS
Together Everyone Achieves More Success
1. Tutoring Others 20 hours
in person or virtually
Tutoring in Schools, Educ. 457 students tutor
20 hours in person or virtually 2 hrs. each week on a schedule.
Leadership in Multicultural Tutoring,
Educ. 557, 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
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 Yourself 20 hours
on a weekly schedule to learn something you want to learn.
Tutoring in Schools, Educ. 457 students invest 20 hours throughout the semester in self-tutoring, a regularly scheduled weekly learning experience.
Leadership in Multicultural Tutoring, Educ 557, 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, speaking a new language.
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.
See wiki page Self Tutoring Ideas and Resources .
3. Weekly Reading, Viewing and Doing Assignments
ASSIGNMENTS are submitted weekly 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;
- Submitting weekly assignments in a Google form Tuesdays by 4 p.m.
4. Attending/Participating in Weekly Tuesday Classes
Each weekly class begins at 4 pm, ILC N 111.
The class format is small group interactive workshops and whole class experiences and site meetings, small group conversation with course site coordinators discussing weekly learning during self-tutoring and tutoring others.
Email course instructors questions and/or topics you would like to discuss.
Robert Maloy
rwm@educ.umass.edu
Sharon Edwards
sedwards@educ.umass.edu
Schedule of Classes Spring 2024
Live links to online assignments:
PART 1: Tutoring Strategies and Scenarios
PART 2: Tutoring READING, WRITING AND MATH
PART 3: Students and Schools
PART 4: TRANSFORMING LEARNING FOR ALL
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Education 457 (TEAMS: Tutoring in Schools) addresses requirements for these 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.
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.
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).
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License
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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