Tutor Staff Meeting

February 23, 2017

Agenda
Introduction
Tutor Presentation
Teaching Methods and Techniques
What Could You Do?
Wrap-up

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Introduction
Forming todays agenda.
Ties to last meeting.

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Tutor Presentation- Sammi
Business calculus key terms.
Review examples.
Solve in pairs.(check time)

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Teaching Methods and Techniques

The Socratic Method.

Types of Questions and their Purpose.
Minimal Encouragers.
Sampling of Helpful Questions.
Openers and Follow-up Questions.

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Socratic Method of Inquiry
A skill that fosters critical thinking.
Use questions to probe deeper.
Consider alternative interpretations.
Analyze key concepts.
Question assumptions.

Tutors should ask questions which stimulate student thinking

and help students begin questioning for themselves.
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Socratic Styles of
Questioning

Clarity help the student give more examples.

Accuracy help the student prove answers.
Precision help the student give details.
Depth help the student dig for more.
Breadth help the student see all angles.
Logic help the student tie it all together.
Significance help the student see the importance.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QSXvpbyZeM
from NCSUs Tutorial Center 7
The Next Best Question
Every explanation or solution you offer, should be followed
by questions to the student:
Those that encourage the student to start thinking:
Where do you think we should start?
What do you think the definition is?

Those that determine how well the student understands

what you covered:
Can you solve this other problem now?
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Helpful Questioning
Those that invite the student to think:
Whats the new concept/skill in this problem?
How is this problem like the others we did?

Those that ask the student to recall information that

can be used as a tool:
What do you need to know to figure this out?

Those that help the student become aware of

his/her thought process:
What strategy are you using to solve this?
What do you need to remember to solve this type of problem?
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Opening and Follow-up Questions
Those that help the tutor figure out the students study
habits/skills:
Did the professor cover this in class? Lets review your notes.
Did your read this in the text? Lets look at your study notes.

Asking follow-up questions.

Forces students to recall, use and process information
Breaks the passive listening pattern & forces engagement
Makes students verbalize what and how they think
Allows tutors to see if their approach works and make changes
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Another View-
The Importance of Asking Questions
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFVcpzSHuDw

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 What Could You Do?
Communicating Effective Responses

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Recap
What we covered today.
Next meeting- More on Teaching Tips & Techniques; Learning
Styles.
Survey on Future Tutor topics.
Raffle Drawing.

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Remember

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Resources
Socratic Method
Edutopia
Other

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