Welcome to Tutorology

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Welcome to Tutorology

• All AVID teachers will be expected to be trained
  in Tutorology by 2010 as required by the AVID
  Center. This will be a requirement of the site
  certification process.

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Rationale

• Completing first half of Tutorology Training
• Developing Site Trainers
• Developing Trainer of Trainers

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Why a Tutorial Support Curriculum?

• Align tutor training to the national
  certification document--Essential 8.2
• Provide the teacher with tools to debrief and
  refine the tutorial process with students and
  tutors.
• Provide the teacher with tools to facilitate
  rigorous tutorials that support students in
  academic classes.

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Agenda

• Ten Steps in the Tutorials Process
• Give One Get One
• Characteristics of Ideal Tutors
• Expectations of Site Tutor Trainer
• Expectations of AVID Tutor
• Binder Grade Sheets
• Four Corner Activity for Cornell Notes
• DVD Matts Story

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Top 10 Characteristicsof Ideal Tutors

• Give One Get One
• Meet and Greet three people that you do not know
• Give and idea and get an idea
• Share how you convey these to your AVID tutors

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Top 10 Characteristicsof Ideal Tutors

• Give One Get One
• How do the characteristics you discussed compare
  to page 9, handout 1.3.1?

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Site Tutor Trainer and AVID Tutor Expectations

• Individually read and review all of page 15 and
  page 17
• Prioritize your top five bulleted items
• from page 17
• Compare your top five bulleted items with the
  others at your table

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Before the Tutorial

• What systems can we put in place at our site to
  check student binders?

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Binder Grade Sheets

• Individually read and review pages 51-53 and
  then complete page 54 Got P-M-I
• Share out with larger group

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Break

• Five Minute Break

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Before the Tutorial

• Table Discussion
• How do we norm the grading of Cornell Notes?

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Four Corner Activity

• Review the student samples of Cornell notes on
  pages 70-71.
• Review the Cornell Note grading checklist and
  Cornell Note rubric pages 76 and 77
• Utilize both grading tools and assign a
  letter grade of A, B, C, D/F for student Cornell
  Note pages. Please do this quietly on your own.

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Four Corner Activity

• Go to the corner of the room that corresponds
  with the grade you gave for the Cornell Note page
  selected by the presenter.
• Share your reasoning/justification for your
  grade in small groups at your corner.
• You may change the grade you assigned the page
  based on the rationale you hear from each group.
• Select a representative from your group to
  share out with the whole group.

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Four Corner Activity Debrief

• How do I grade Cornell Notes for quality as
  well as quantity?
• How can we use this Four Corner activity to
  norm the way that we (elective teachers, content
  teachers, tutors and students) evaluate Cornell
  Notes at our site?

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Matts Story DVD

• DVD Supporting the AVID Elective Class
• What are the contractual agreements you have with
  your AVID tutors?

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Round-Table Share

• If you attended 2008 Summer Institute
  Tutorology Strand, please share your experiences
  and what you have already taken back to your
  classroom.