The role of teacher educators as researcher-practitioner is viewed in this narrative reflection from the perspective of the author, the professor of record for a course in which an early field experience tutoring opportunity was embedded. The manuscript reports on the tutoring experiences through the lens of the author with instigations and…

Describes how a senior citizen volunteer tutor program at Emerson Elementary School in Riverside (California) achieved success through careful preparation, staff and student cooperation, extra effort to find interested senior citizens, and continual expression of appreciation to volunteers. Presents 17 hints on starting a grandpeople project. (RW)

Describes what reading coaches do (provide literacy enrichment without emphasizing the diagnostic and intervention aspects of reading), how this differs from reading tutors, and how reading coaches can help with literacy development in schools. Discusses activities for reading coaches, and benefits of a reading coach program. (SR)

A field test of "Guiding Older Children As Tutors," one of the four motivational-instructional procedures of Individually Guided Motivation (IGM), was used in two Milwaukee, Wisconsin schools. A total of 34 tutees, 22 tutors, and 24 adults participated in the field test during the 1972-73 school year. The field test objectives sought an increase…

The America Reads Challenge (ARC) program, part of AmeriCorps, has the primary goal of ensuring that all children can read proficiently by the end of third grade. In Mississippi, the ARC program is referred to as the America Reads-Mississippi (ARM) program. In 1999, 37 schools in 25 school districts participated in this program, sponsored by 3…

In a study, underachieving fifth and sixth graders who were weak in mathematics tutored second graders who were also weak in mathematics, replacing their regular classroom teachers. Results show that both tutors and tutees had significantly improved in mathematics on standard achievement tests. (JN)

Analysis of 47 case studies of tutoring relationships between college tutors and elementary students suggests that three tutoring patterns can be distinguished. Each of these three tutoring patterns--professional, comradeship, and informal--combines personal trust and social contract in different ways. Implications are drawn for implementation of…

Discusses the Mathematics Tutorial Program, which assigns preservice teachers to inservice elementary teachers to tutor students in mathematics using manipulatives and a hands-on approach. Classroom teachers commented on the children's improved self-esteem and confidence in mathematics. (Author/MKR)

The author of this article is a young elementary teacher at Rosado Elementary in Richmond, California, on the eastern shore of the San Francisco Bay. She writes this article as a moving memoir describing her experiences as a tutor in literacy programs developed by low-income schools. In order for their students to remember their lessons, they have…

The author describes an elementary school "each one teach one" tutoring program in Harlem, New York. Emphasis is placed on the necessity of establishing acceptance and credibility before full program implementation can be successful. (MJB)

Offers advice and guidance to those wishing to develop a volunteer tutoring program that costs little and helps many children in need of tutorial assistance in reading. (FL)

Peer tutoring recognizes that a pupil is in reality three individuals: the pupil he is, the one he himself perceives, and the one others see. Such a program is beneficial to students, teachers, parents, and administrators. (Author/IRT)

The general objective of Project Utilize was to help educators learn effective utilization of volunteer support. Volunteers were recruited from the school community. Nine volunteer and teacher training sessions were held. The volunteers, principals, and teachers were involved in viewing the training of volunteers on videotape. Pupils referred to…

Describes the experiences and the effective instructional practices of one college student who over a three-year period was a literacy tutor in a university America Reads program. Describes his two distinctive tutoring roles. Examines social interactions, activities he used to scaffold instruction for at-risk emergent readers, and the impact of…