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Tutoring matters : everything you always wanted to know about how to tutor

Chin, Tiffani. (Author). Rabow, Jerome. (Added Author). Estrada, Jeimee, 1986- (Added Author). Rabow, Jerome. Tutoring matters. (Added Author).

Summary: Based on the experiences of over 100 college student tutors, this book offers techniques for handling tutoring anxieties, tips for building relationships, and tutoring techniques. It features practical "tip boxes" that are quick reference guidelines on a range of tutoring challenges.

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  • ISBN: 9781439907405 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • ISBN: 1439907404 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • ISBN: 9781439907412 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • ISBN: 1439907412 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • ISBN: 9781439907429 (e-book)
  • ISBN: 1439907420 (e-book)
  • Physical Description: print
    xxii, 213 p. ; 21 cm.
  • Edition: 2nd ed.
  • Publisher: Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2011.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Rev. ed. of: Tutoring matters / Jerome Rabow, Tiffani Chin, Nima Fahimian. 1999.
Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-213).
Formatted Contents Note: Attitudes, anxieties, and expectations -- Building relationships -- Teaching techniques -- Race, gender, class, and background differences -- Other adults : parents, teachers, and administrators -- Good-byes : ending the tutoring relationship.
Subject: Tutors and tutoring -- United States -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
Tutoring
Tutoring strategies
Tutoring methods
Learner tutor relationships

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Decoda Literacy Library.

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Decoda Literacy Library 371.394 C55 2011 (Text) 35410000017079 General Collection Volume hold Available -

Tiffani Chin is the Executive Director of EdBoost, a nonprofit that includes a learning center serving K-12 students in Los Angeles. She is the author of School Sense: How to Help Your Child Succeed in Elementary School, and she has been tutoring for twenty years.

Jerome Rabow, the recipient of numerous distinguished teaching awards, is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles, and a Lecturer at California State University, Northridge. He is the author of Voices of Pain and Voices of Hope: Students Speak about Racism. Rabow is the Director and Co-founder of CCODE (Center for the Celebration of Diversity Education).

Jeimee Estradais a K­-12 Education Policy Analyst with the California Legislative Analyst’s Office and a Master of Public Policy graduate from the University of Southern California.

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