Question for teachers who tutor

[Anonymous]

I teach first grade and this summer, I plan on tutoring a few students to make some extra money. I have a few questions for teachers who tutor early elementary school-aged students. First, what assessment(s) do you use to determine a child's needs? Also, where do you get your tutoring materials? I know that it is difficult to find very early readers in the library. Do you give "homework" if a student comes to you once a week? Any information you have would be helpful.

[Anonymous]

If you teach first grade you should know exactly how to assess a kid's reading level. I use some non-consumables from my classroom and buy some from the teacher store, but I also make stuff for/with individual kids. I usually talk to the parents about homework and let them tell me their expectations and then I go along with that. I do tell them that I highly recommend that they reinforce what I've been doing with the kid, but I can't force them.

[Anonymous]

I am the OP. Thanks PP. Of course I can I can test for a current reading level but the parents I know who want tutors don't seem to know what they want the tutor to focus on. They tell me that their child needs tutoring in reading but cannot give me more information about whether they need help with comprehension, fluency, phonics or all of the above. I can't tutor my own students so all I have to go on are report cards which aren't always full of useful information.

[Anonymous]

That's kind of sad that the report cards aren't very useful. If they aren't useful to you, imagine how they look to parents.

I really like the I see sam books for very early readers if that is what you're looking for and you can get those for free.
http://www.welltrainedmind.com/forums/showthread.php?t=142032

[Anonymous]

I'm really hoping if you are lying about being a teacher. Any first year teacher would know how to comprhebsively and formatively assess all aspects of a childs reading abilities and then design instruction to meet their needs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm really hoping if you are lying about being a teacher. Any first year teacher would know how to comprhebsively and formatively assess all aspects of a childs reading abilities and then design instruction to meet their needs.

ITA. If you don't know this information please don't tutor anyone in reading. Find another summer job or go to more trainings on teaching reading. If you really are a teacher try to get hired at a place like Sylvan and you can see how they tutor.

[Anonymous]

I'm not the OP. But usually, teachers are told to administer certain assessments that the school provides. THey don't usually have access to those assessments over summer break, though.

[Anonymous]

And normally, when one is in undergrad or grad school studying how to become a teacher, one takes any number of courses in teaching literacy that include a variety of means of assessment. You don't need any fancy materials to assess using F&P for example, you just need text and a pen and pencil.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm really hoping if you are lying about being a teacher. Any first year teacher would know how to comprhebsively and formatively assess all aspects of a childs reading abilities and then design instruction to meet their needs.

You have a lot of nerve criticizing the OP when you don't seem to know how to spell or punctuate properly. Pot meet kettle.

[Anonymous]

OP -- check this out:



http://www.righttrackreading.com/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm really hoping if you are lying about being a teacher. Any first year teacher would know how to comprhebsively and formatively assess all aspects of a childs reading abilities and then design instruction to meet their needs.

You have a lot of nerve criticizing the OP when you don't seem to know how to spell or punctuate properly. Pot meet kettle.

You sure showed me.

I was replying on a phone and thus was prone to typos.

Yes, that sure proves something.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm really hoping if you are lying about being a teacher. Any first year teacher would know how to comprhebsively and formatively assess all aspects of a childs reading abilities and then design instruction to meet their needs.

You have a lot of nerve criticizing the OP when you don't seem to know how to spell or punctuate properly. Pot meet kettle.

You sure showed me.

I was replying on a phone and thus was prone to typos.

Yes, that sure proves something.

The PP who criticized you (not me) for got to mention that if you have "a child" then it's "his or her needs" not "their needs." The old iPhone excuse can only get you so far.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm really hoping if you are lying about being a teacher. Any first year teacher would know how to comprhebsively and formatively assess all aspects of a childs reading abilities and then design instruction to meet their needs.

You have a lot of nerve criticizing the OP when you don't seem to know how to spell or punctuate properly. Pot meet kettle.

You sure showed me.

I was replying on a phone and thus was prone to typos.

Yes, that sure proves something.

The PP who criticized you (not me) for got to mention that if you have "a child" then it's "his or her needs" not "their needs." The old iPhone excuse can only get you so
far.

Forgot is only one word, not two.

[Anonymous]

Back to the actual subject of the thread....

I'm not the OP. But usually, teachers are told to administer certain assessments that the school provides. THey don't usually have access to those assessments over summer break, though.

This may be true, but a teacher should know what exactly these assessments assess and be able to design her own tools to measure what she needs to measure in order to plan an appropriate tutoring session. The OP, by posting here, seems to lack that basic ability and probably should not be tutoring until she educates herself further in the field.

[Anonymous]

wow. OP I think the mistake you made was posting here. Find a teacher forum and post there. It's not an unreasonable question but obviously the folks here have never been new to something and saught some advice. I'd stick to a community that might actually be able to help you, fellow teachers.