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Using Activity Theory to Inform Sessional Teacher Development: What Lessons Can Be Learned from Tutor Training Models?
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Gilbert, Amanda – International Journal for Academic Development, 2017
Sessional teachers in universities are often marginalised by their part-time status, availability for training, and invisibility within the institution's infrastructure. Nevertheless, tutors as a subset of this group, regularly have access to some training and development. This paper presents a methodological approach for implementing the BLASST…
Descriptors: Social Theories, Part Time Faculty, Faculty Development, Tutor Training
Heterogeneous Peer-Tutoring: An Intervention That Fosters Collaborations and Empowers Learners
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Worley, Jacob; Naresh, Nirmala – Middle School Journal, 2014
The goal of the intervention peer-tutoring program described in this paper was to help pre-algebra students (tutees) deepen their knowledge of mathematical concepts by providing them an opportunity to collaborate with their peers--accelerated algebra students (tutors). Over the duration of the program, the tutees and tutors gained a mutual respect…
Descriptors: Peer Teaching, Tutorial Programs, Cooperation, Intervention
Theory in/to Practice: Using Dialogic Reflection to Develop a Writing Center Community of Practice
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Hall, R. Mark – Writing Center Journal, 2011
Michael Mattison's "Someone to Watch Over Me: Reflection and Authority in the Writing Center" explores the problem of audience for tutors' reflective writing. In Mattison's case, tutoring practices and learning are undermined because reflective writing leads consultants to feel as though they are being spied upon by the writing center director.…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Web Sites, Indigenous Knowledge, Electronic Publishing
Communication Skills Workshop for Tutors: The Manual. REDEAL Technical Report #7. Research Report Series.
Williams, Victoria – 1980
Adults learning at a distance at Athabasca University (Alberta, Canada) make use of telephone tutors. Concerned over the lack of time and/or effort spent in training tutors, and recognizing that tutors had emerged as an important component of distance delivery at the university, a joint effort went into the development of a training manual that…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Distance Education, Higher Education, Interpersonal Communication
Project V.I.T.A. Volunteers in Tutoring Arrangements for County Educational Programs.
Mid-State Literacy Council, State College, PA. – 1986
Project VITA (Volunteers in Tutoring Arrangements for County Educational Programs) was designed to develop a training and reporting system to coordinate services between 27 area educational and human service agencies serving special needs adult learners who require one-to-one tutoring. A training system was created with existing resources and…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Agency Cooperation, Cooperative Programs, Disabilities
From Personal Health into Community Action: Another Step forward in Peer Health Education.
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Fabiano, Patricia M. – Journal of American College Health, 1994
Examines how to translate health education's current shift to a community orientation into practical, replicable action steps forward in college peer health education, describing four assumptions in peer health education and explaining a curriculum to reshape the philosophy of peer health education programs into a community and service oriented…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, College Faculty, College Students, Community Action