Benefits to Alaskan Students:
- Provides one-on-one learning experience
- Provides a role model
- Provides another direct line of trust and communication
- Improves academic performance and personal growth
- Improves attitude on content area and success
- Generates stronger skills and strategies
- Motivates self paced learning
- Improve's students emotional and mental attitude
- Improves communication skills and oral responses and interactions
- Provides a higher level of thinking
- Increase general knowledge on content area
Benefits to KU Tutors
- Increases opportunity to reinforce instruction
- Positive and engaging communication
- Enhances use and knowledge with technology
- Facilitates cultural integration
- Enhances positive outlook on attitude towards teaching
- Teaches behavior and time management
- Introduces new skills and techniques to use in the classroom
- Increases motivation to maintain order
- Increased confidence of subject areas
- Learning how to make adaptations and differentiate material to meed the needs of all learners
- Enhances positive outlook and attitude towards teaching
- Teaches behavior and time management skills
Through tutoring we were able to develop into a teacher candidate that allows us to be prepared for student teaching and a first year teacher.
“I enjoyed tutoring a lot this year. It was an amazing learning experience for me. I was able to practice the teaching strategies that I was learning in my classes. Tutoring definitely helped me to realize that teaching was the right profession for me.”- 2015 tutor
“This tutoring experience has made me a better teacher.” - 2015 tutor
“I think everyone should be involved with a distance intervention program before they student teach.”-2015 Tutor
Breaking Cultural Barriers
“Tutors had to be prepared for, and sensitive to, students whose background and life experiences were far different from their own.” –Dr Kristen Bazley (2015)
- Facilitates cultural integration
- Greater understanding or cultural and literacy barriers
