A Center Response: Tutoring

SMHP Quick Find

TOPIC: Tutoring

The following represents a sample of information to get you started and is not meant to be exhaustive.
(Note: Clicking on the following links causes a new window to be opened. To return to this window, close the newly opened one.)

Center Developed Resources and Tools

Guidance Notes

Dropout Prevention

Guiding and Supporting Volunteers

Response to Intervention

Training Big Classes into Smaller Units

Volunteersas an Invaluable Resource

Technical Assistance

From our Sampling of Outcome Findings from Interventions Relevant to Addressing Barriers to Learning Packet:

Please refer to the section of "Appendix A: Classroom-Focused Enabling" entitled Tutoring

Please refer to the section of "Appendix B: Support for Transitions" entitled Welcoming and Social Support

Technical Aid
Volunteers to Help Teachers and Schools Address Barriers to Learning

Information Resource
University Volunteer Tutor Programs and Secondary School Classrooms: Outline Focused on Key Questions and Concerns

Introductory Packet

Learning Problems and Learning Disabilities

Relevant Publications on the Internet

Cross-Age Tutoring Lesson Plans

Education Actions May Help Improve Implementation and Evaluation of Supplemental Educational Services (2007)

The Partners Tutoring Program

Peer-assisted Learning

Peer and Cross-Age Tutoring

Peer Helping: Youth Working Together

Reading Helpers: A Handbook for Training Tutors

School Improvement Research Series: Peer and Cross-Age Tutoring

Supplemental Educations Services under NCLB: Emerging Evidence and Policy Issues (2007) P. Burch

Read With Me: A Guide for Student Volunteers Starting Early Childhood Literacy Programs

Review of Extended-Day and After-School Programs and Their Effectiveness

Related Agencies and Websites

The National Peer Helpers Association

National Tutoring Association

Peer Resources

Success For All Foundation

Tutoring Plus

Relevant Publications That Can Be Obtained at Your Local Library

A win-win peer mentoring and tutoring program: A collaborative model. Dennison, S. (2000). Journal of Primary Prevention, 20, 161-174.

Peer Assisted Learning: A Practical Guide for Teachers. Topping, K. (2000). Cambridge, MA: Brookline Books.

Peer Tutoring: A Teacher's Resource Guide. Gordon, E.E. (2005). ScarecrowEducation.

Tutoring Matters: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About How to Tutor. By Chin, T., Rabow, J., & Estrada, J. (2011). Temple University Press.

The Tutoring Revolution: Applying Research for Best Practices, Policy Implications, and Student Acheievement. Gordon, E.E. (2006). Rowman & Littlefield.

We hope these resources met your needs. If not, feel free to contact us for further assistance.For additional resources related to this topic, use our search page to find people, organizations, websites and documents. You may also go to our technical assistance page for more specific technical assistance requests.
If our website has been helpful, we are pleased and encourage you to use our site or contact our Center in the future. At the same time, you can do your own technical assistance with "The fine Art of Fishing" which we have developed as an aid for do-it-yourself technical assistance.