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Professional Development for Tutors
Why Professional Development? Professional Development
is an opportunity for individuals to connect with their profession. Your
role as a tutor comes with it the responsibility to take part in
professional development opportunities. Professional Development can
include attending continued training, forming relationships with others who
are doing the same work you are doing or teaching peers about an aspect of
your profession.
All returning tutors employed by Cebu Creative Learning Systems are
required to participate in at least one professional development
opportunity each quarter. Tutors are encouraged to participate in more than
one opportunity!
All continued training workshops sponsored by Cebu Creative Learning
Systems are open to any employed tutor.
CCLS Training Programs for Our Instructors
Training
Workshops
v Indirect
Tutoring Techniques. Revisit the applicability
of these foundational techniques, such as positive reinforcement, utilizing
students' ideas, and effective questioning to facilitate verbalization.
v Does How
Someone Look Influence a Tutoring Relationship? We will explore how social identities may influence how we
tutor and perceive our students, how students interact with us as tutors,
and what we can do to combat our stereotypes and biases.
v Integrating
Study Skills with Content. Study skills
are necessary in the formation of independent learners. Participants will
review different study skills and discuss ways tutors can integrate process
with content.
v Enhancing
Communication & Building Assertiveness Skills. Practice and develop your effective communication skills,
including assertion, nonverbal communication, and active listening, in
order to improve your tutorial sessions.
v Leadership as
Tutor. What is your leadership role as a
tutor? Learn more about your leadership practices as they relate to
tutoring, and explore how to facilitate learning with your students through
utilizing your strengths and developing your growth areas.
Discussion
Sessions
Discussion sessions are informal discussions about your
tutoring assignments and the strategies you are using, as well as the
particular challenges you are facing. As a group, we will brainstorm
possible solutions:
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Help! How do I Motivate My
Students?
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Adapting To My Students'
Preferred Learning Styles
Other
Professional Development Opportunities
v Counseling Center Study Skills
Workshops. You may attend a study skills
workshop to learn more about a topic that your tutees' are struggling with
or for assistance in presenting study skills information to tutees.
v Leadership
Development Series. Some of the workshops
included in the LDS will be very useful to you as a tutor. Some examples
include: Leadership Tools for Women, Assertive Communication, Cross
Cultural Communication, Working with Diverse Populations.
v Project Safe
Training. Project SAFE training is conducted
throughout the year by experienced and trained facilitators. Each session
is approximately 3 hours, and is designed to cover a broad array of
material. Each participant receives a complete set of Project SAFE
materials to keep. Some participants who complete Project SAFE training
then decide to become SAFE allies. Training sessions are held monthly.
v Building
Bridges: A Prejudice Reduction Workshop. Building
Bridges: A Prejudice Reduction Workshop will allow you to gain
self-awareness, stretch beyond your comfort zone, and gain new
understanding. The unique workshop is interactive, experiential, and high
energy. Participants are both teachers and learners. The full workshop
lasts approximately six hours, during which time participants engage in
small group and large group discussions.
v Legacies +
Layers = Lenses: Campus Diversity Conflicts. Unresolved conflicts with the added dimension of diversity,
including racial/ethnic differences, sexual orientation, gender, and
religion to name a few, prevent positive, sustained personal and
professional growth. This interactive session offers ideas and skills to
assist tutors in teaching their students to properly address the management
of negative conflict in proactive, constructive ways. Various methods,
including appropriate diversity training, coaching, group facilitation, and
mediation are discussed and showcased.
How to Become a Tutor
Working with children and
young adults in a helping role will provide you with some of the most
valuable experience you could ever get during your professional years. If
you have a good understanding and knowledge of any of the subjects/course
offerings we tutor, please consider becoming a tutor for our center. All
new instructors must enroll in CCLS 101: Introduction to General Tutoring,
a 2-hour course.
COME TO CLASS TO FIND OUT MORE!
After successful completion of CCLS 101, "graduates" are eligible
to become tutor coordinators and sign-up tutors. Those who want to tutor
for our center should contact us.
Some advantages in becoming a
tutor are:
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Helping
others while being paid to do it
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Improving
your communication skills
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Reinforcing
your knowledge of basic concepts that may help in future endeavors
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