Who’s teaching, who’s learning? Analyzing the professional growth of graduate student tutors

Tutoring Opened My Eyes: Tutor Experiences in the America Reads Challenge

“…The benefits of literacy tutoring experiences for tutors have been well documented, but the reported benefits have typically been related to increased knowledge and skill as a literacy teacher (e.g., Atkinson & Colby, 2006), enhanced literacy development (e.g., Juel, 1991), or increased awareness of social issues (Boyle-Baise, 2002;McHatton, Thomas, & Lehman, 2006). It has been found that given adequate training, tutors can have few related prior experiences and still have a positive impact on the tutors and learners (Fitzgerald, 2009).…”

Evaluating Graduate Students within an Online Literacy Clinic: Providing Practicum Experiences for Candidates Who are Pursuing Graduate Studies in the Reading Teacher Endorsement and the Reading Specialist

“…The participants studying to become reading specialists tutored struggling readers in one-on-one sessions and were required to make significant use of technology in their instruction (McKenna & Walpole, 2019).The sessions were designed to increase the comprehension, fluency, and sight word vocabulary of the tutees and to develop language and thinking skills. The program offered activities that used reading and rereading texts, cognitively challenging talk, discussion of vocabulary words, summarization of texts, evaluative responses about texts, and connections between texts and real-life experiences (Atkinson & Colby, 2006).The graduate students used in-depth assessment and flexibility in adapting instructional techniques to meet individual differences and needs. Potential stumbling blocks were identified that might impede tutees on the journey to be skilled readers.…”

“…Supervised instructional experiences help graduate students develop knowledge, skills, and abilities to administer literacy assessments and instruction that will improve young children's reading and writing abilities (Atkinson & Colby, 2006). These literacy instructional experiences carry common themes of instruction in fluency, word study, and comprehension, although each literacy tutoring session allocates different amounts of time and implements a variety of instructional concepts for each of these areas of literacy (Coulter, 2004;Houge et al, 2008;Manset-Williamson & Nelson, 2005;Penney, 2002).…”

Delivering One‐to‐One Tutoring in Literacy via Videoconferencing

“…The two main purposes of university-based reading clinics are to serve the community and to provide supervised instructional experiences for teacher candidates. Supervised instructional experiences help teacher candidates understand how to administer assessments and instruction that will improve students' reading and writing abilities (Atkinson & Colby, 2006). These literacy instructional experiences carry common themes of instruction in f luency, word study, and comprehension, although each tutoring program allocates different amounts of time and implements a variety of instructional concepts for each of these areas of literacy (Coulter, 2004;Houge, Geier, & Peyton, 2008;Manset-Williamson & Nelson, 2005;Penney, 2002).…”