DIRECTIONS:

Your final responsibility as a tutor is to write a report(s) to your cooperating teacher or school contact person about the tutoring you have done with each individual student.

You should plan to do several drafts of this report(s), proofing it thoroughly.

By April 7, submit single-spaced final copy(ies) to the teacher/contact person with whom you worked. If you reported to more than one person, you will need to provide copies to each.

IMPORTANT: To the tutoring report attach a copy of the Student Tutoring Evaluation form so that your cooperating teacher can fill it out and send it back to me.

As a courtesy to your cooperation teacher, also attach a stamped envelope addressed to me. They can use this envelope to return their evaluation of you.

My address is as follows:

Dr. Cynthia L. Selfe, Dept. of Humanities, Michigan Technological University, 1400 Townsend Dr., Houghton, MI 49931.

By April 19, hand in a copy of the Final Tutoring Report to me as part of your teaching notebook.

Your report(s) should be written in memo format, addressed to your cooperating teacher/contact person with a “cc” line to me.

Length: about 2 pages, single-spaced

GOALS:

In your tutoring report(s), you will write a professional document that carefully and accurately describes students’ work and behavior, and the specific skills and approaches that you have taught the student.

The report(s) will avoid making characterizations or judgments of the students. (For example: “In the twenty appointments I had with Jason, he brought his homework twice” is much better than “Jason is irresponsible and lazy.”)

The report will avoid criticism of the teachers and/or school system.

HINTS FOR SUCCESS

• Your report should be written in memo format, addressed to your cooperating teacher/contact person. Write the memo heading as follows

To: Your Cooperating Teacher/Contact Person
From: Your name
Date:
Subject: Final Report on Student Name and Student Name
Total Number of Sessions Attended:
Total Sessions missed due to weather or school holiday or student absence:
Total Sessions missed due to (your) absence:

• Provide brief background information about the student and the tutoring you have done (student(s')name, subjects you worked on, etc.)

•. Summarize your work with the student. What exactly did you teach this student? Focus especially on the literacy skills and approaches you have taught the student, but also on the specific content area skills you have taught. This section should be particularly meaty. The more connections you can make to what you have learned about literacy, the better.

• Assess the progress that you and the student made (use descriptive, not evaluative terms)

• Indicate what you learned from the experience

•. In closing, thank the counselor or teacher for their cooperation and/or assistance.

EVALUATION

Complete (Provides required elements.)

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Effective and professional (What the tutor has taught the student and what the student has done is described accurately, carefully, and in detail.)

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Connections (Tutor has demonstrated that she/he has made every effort to incorporate specific approaches from Alvermann into their tutoring sessions and used the vocabulary in the book to describe their tutoring efforts.)

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Learning (Tutor's own learning is thoughtfully, frankly, and carefully described.)

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Thoughtfulness (Thorough, Focused, Detailed, Adequate explanation of choices and plans, Specific.)

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Correctness (Memo is mechanically correct.)

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Grade:

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