Training Tutors To Help Tutees With Study Skills & Strategies

Description  Challenge - Teaching tutees study skills strategies Providing resources and strategies for tutor trainers to better educate tutors about working with students to develop efficient study skills. Key Takeaway Webinar participants will learn about the importance of training tutors to support students in building academic stamina with developing their college-level study strategies and discover new training exercises and approaches for doing so.  Overview For many students, when they seek out help in our support centers, tutors quickly discover that their area of greatest need is not necessarily the actual course but how to make sense of it to find meaning and relevance. As a result, a tutor's job quickly becomes more of showing students how to learn and less of working with them on what to learn. The best tutors give tutees the techniques and the skills to learn. If this sounds like a challenge for tutors and tutor trainers--it is!A successful and effective tutoring program trains its tutors in helping students to build academic stamina by integrating learning techniques and skills ranging from good study habits to detecting how each student learns best. By showing a student careful reading techniques, note-taking methods, and time management skills, for example, tutors can assist their tutees how to study more effectively, clearing a path for learning.Now, more than ever, students are struggling with utilizing study skills and sustaining effective academic habits as they are returning to learning in person. According to Ann Denon (Best Colleges, April 2021), studies from the past year have indicated that the shift to online learning damaged students' focus and motivation. Many students have performed worse academically since the transition to remote learning. She suggests that this "learning loss" could be counteracted by living on campus, but that's not possible for all students.Tutoring centers are now in a pivotal position to help students build academic skills that have regressed, learn college-level study skills, and hone their self-advocacy skills. Indeed, while higher education course content may be challenging, students need support with their study and learning skills and strategies. Tutors are in a great position to help students develop these good habits, but sometimes they feel less equipped and confident in moving beyond the content in their tutoring sessions to work on these skills and strategies. This session will help tutor trainers better prepare their tutors for working with tutees on study strategies during tutoring sessions. Objectives Reflect on the impacts of COVID on students' academic performance and challenges created by recent years of online and hybrid learning Review K-12 literature on re-entry into face-to-face learning and how it can inform higher education practices and programs Discuss areas of academic support needed for students to regain their academic stamina and skills Discover ways that tutors can engage with students beyond content by focusing on study skills and strategies Learn training exercises and practices that better prepare tutors to focus on study skills in tutoring sessions. Discuss ways of encouraging tutors to help their tutees overcome potential barriers to learning associated with study strategies Who Should Attend Tutoring Center Administrators and Supervisors including tutor trainers Writing Center Administrators and Supervisors Any educator interested in learning more about training tutors to teach their tutees study skills