School Community University Partnership Volunteer Tutor Training
- 1.Check all of the boxes that apply. A tutor is_______.
- A.
A peer
- B.
A parent
- C.
A role model
- D.
An intimate friend
- E.
An advisor
- F.
A counselor
- G.
An example
- H.
A teacher
- I.
A mentor
- J.
An answer giver
- 2.Check all of the boxes that apply. Why is it important to ask good questions while tutoring?
- A.
To find out what gaps are missing in their knowledge
- B.
To avoid being an answer giver
- C.
To teach the student how to approach the problem
- D.
To help them see how much more you know about the subject than they do
- 3.Check all of the boxes that apply. Good questions:
- A.
Connect older material
- B.
Are questions they can answer
- C.
Ask for personal information
- D.
Show direction
- E.
Have obvious answers
- F.
Help organize data
- 4.Out of the four options below which is true?
- A.
You have to know all of the answers.
- B.
Silence is okay.
- C.
Asking many questions in a row that the student doesn't know is good for him/her.
- D.
Using the learning model will make you look stupid in front of the student.
- 5.When is it appropriate to communicate with students over social media?
- A.
When you get along very well.
- B.
On your personal time.
- C.
Upon request from the student.
- D.
Never.
- 6.Matt, a volunteer tutor with SCUP, was assigned to do his Service Learning hours at an elementary school after-school program. He reported on his first day excited, but he soon learned it was a lot different than he expected. He is enrolled in a Math Class and was expecting to help children with their math facts. He becomes frustrated when the site supervisor asks him to monitor a game of Four Corners. What should he do?
- A.
Tell the site supervisor he will not do that because he wasn't there to babysit.
- B.
Simply leave.
- C.
Be willing to help and do what the site supervisor asks.
- D.
At the appropriate time contact a volunteer coordinator and ask to be reassigned.
- E.
Report the experience to the instructor only.
- F.
Insult the site supervisor for not knowing what his assignment was.
- G.
Stay positive.
- H.
Calmly talk with the site supervisor after the children go home, so he can explain his feelings.
- 7.It is inappropriate for a tutor to use other resources than their own knowledge to find answers he or she does not know.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 8.What is FERPA?
- A.
One of the places where SCUP volunteers can tutor.
- B.
The security clearance system used for volunteer tutors.
- C.
The Family Education Right to Privacy Act which protects the personal information of students.
- D.
The Federal Education Rights and Piracy Avoidance which is a law against plagiarism.
- 9.A good way of introducing a new subject is to have the student try to do it all by himself or herself and then you correct the mistakes.
- A.
True
- B.
False
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