Rowman & Littlefield Guide for Peer Tutors

This practical guide, while grounded in the science of learning and cognition, provides advice, strategies, and techniques to help tutors be more effective when working with students in campus learning centers, writing centers, TRIO programs, and supplemental instruction programs. Includes a chapter on tutoring in online environments.

List of contents

Foreword for Learning Center Directors

Acknowledgments

1 Introduction to Peer Tutoring

2 Learning and the Brain

3 Learning Center Pedagogy

4 Applying What We Know: Working with Students

5 Peer Tutoring and the Affective Domain

6 Learning Strategies

7 Engaging a Diverse Student Body

8 Critical Thinking and Disciplinary Ways of Knowledge

9 Tutoring in Online Environments

10 Other Ways to Engage as a Tutor

References

Index

About the Author

About the author

Daniel R. Sanford, PhD, is the director of the Center for Teaching and Learning at Boise State University. Previous to this, he was the director of Writing and the Academic Resource Commons at Bates College, and director of the Center for Academic Program Support at the University of New Mexico. He is an experienced higher education administrator and a recognized scholar and professional in the field of peer-led learning. He is also a cognitive scientist, the author of numerous articles in the field of cognitive linguistics, and an educator with a wealth of experience making the mechanisms of the brain accessible and intuitive to college-age students.

Summary

This guide provides an introduction for tutors to the scholarship of teaching and learning as it pertains to their work engaging students in learning centers, writing centers, Supplemental Instruction programs, and other sites for peer-led learning in higher education.

Product details

• Authors: Daniel R Sanford, Daniel R. Sanford
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2020
• EAN: 9781538135518
• ISBN: 978-1-5381-3551-8
• No. of pages: 218
• Series: Theory & Practice for Peer Tut; Theory & Practice for Peer Tutors and Learning Center Professionals; Theory & Practice for Peer Tutors & Learning Center Professionals
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Teaching materials, hand-outs; Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system; EDUCATION / Curricula, EDUCATION / Student Life & Student Affairs, EDUCATION / Administration / Higher, Organization & management of education, Educational administration and organization, Education: examinations & assessment, Educational administration & organization, Curriculum planning & development, Student life, Higher education, tertiary education, Advice on education, Students & Student Organisations, Education: examinations and assessment, Examinations & assessment