Tutoring for Life
Welcome to Tutoring for Life!
We hope you will have a wonderful time and learn a lot about small group and 1:1 tutoring to help your students catch up and keep on gaining!
You will have six weeks to complete the course. We estimate that it will take around four hours to complete all the modules and your certificate will be issued when you do.
Course Information
By the end of the course you will have
- Learned what you can and can’t change in tutoring
- Gained insight into spelling, reading and writing work that makes a difference
- Learned about carer coaching, progress monitoring and behaviour management
We do hope you have fun and enjoy the course and we look forward to seeing you online soon!
Books
Lyn has written three books on the subject of literacy and language, supported by online courses too. The links below will take you to each book.
Course Content
Your Tutoring for Life video, slides and manual
Memory and Processing: What you can and can't change
Building a Bridge to the Curriculum
Practice and Progress
Free and Low-Cost Resources for Specific Areas
Feedback
Mentoring
Hi Lyn, Obviously got in – thank you. It does say that 0% of Spelling for Life has been done but as I have the certificate I’m not too worried! Looking forward to this one! Sharon.
Yes, unfortunately your process does not carry on from the old to the new platform. If you want a new certificate, all you have to do is mark each section as ‘done’ and hey presto!
After 12 years in an intense and demanding support unit setting I am now taking time to redirect my work path. I am making the time and space to focus on one very important thing in life. Quality literacy instruction. I am tired of working in an environment which hosts a constant stream of high school students with low to no literacy skills with executive staff who do not understand or seek evidence based approaches. I am particularly tired of hearing, ‘he can’t learn to read, we just need to focus on practical skills’. I can make a much better difference when free of school demands and constraints. I am transitioning into tutoring work and look forward to the content of this course.
I’m sorry to hear about your situation, and even sorrier that it’s a familiar situation! I do hope you find lots of useful material here, Heather.
Hi Lyn,
I’m ba-ack! For my second attempt at finishing Tutoring for Life! I’m afraid I left it too long the first time round, and didn’t get it finished in the required time frame. But I’m determined to get it done and dusted this time!
A little about me….After working for the Department of Education for 30+ years, I have become increasingly disenchanted with the system that I believe is failing so many of our most vulnerable children, particularly in developing their literacy and numeracy skills.
After resigning almost 5 years ago, I am still trying to extract myself from the system (am doing relief teaching to help pay the bills), and have started a business helping parents who are homeschooling their children. I have also started tutoring. I’m looking forward to learning about evidence-based practice and how to make a positive difference in the lives of the kids I am working with and their families.
Thanks,
Kerri
Haha! Great to have you here, Kerri! Your journey sounds very interesting. Are you getting much business from homeschoolers? It’s an interesting arena.
Hi Lyn,
Not a great lot of business as yet unfortunately. I’ve been a bit nervous in putting myself out there so am still at the start up stage I’m afraid. I’m working on a couple of online courses at the moment I hope to launch soon though. I also help parents write their education plans to submit to the Home Education Unit for approval. So I’m getting there, slowly but surely.
I worked in Distance Education for 13 years so I’ve worked in both mainstream schools and with families who chose to go the Distance Ed path. Our DE school was not your typical Distance Ed school though. Meaning, we didn’t only work with families in remote areas. Rather, we had kids who enrolled with us for many different reasons. A large percentage of our enrolments in the Primary School were children with Specific Learning Difficulties such as dyslexia, or were autistic, and the parents felt that mainstream classrooms and schools just weren’t working for their kids. We had kids who were disengaged from school, kids who were travelling with their families for work or holidays, kids living overseas, kids who had medical issues and couldn’t attend school, plus your geographically isolated kids. So it was a really interesting and eye-opening time. I loved my time there, especially the online learning and teaching, but it was still a government school with all the typical government red-tape. And I became more and more frustrated as time went on.
Which brings me here. Hoping to learn lots and eventually, make a difference 🙂
Wow! Interesting journey, Kerri! My strongest advice to those starting out is…START NOW! This job is so reliant on experience. Get it NOW! 🙂
Thanks Lyn! I have a few students I’ve started tutoring privately and am already putting into practice things I’ve learned from this course and other things I’ve learned in the last 12 months or so, since stumbling across the Science of Reading and Learning. So excited! I feel like I’ve found my people! 😉 🙂
Hi Lyn,
Excited for you to share your wisdom on the tutoring side of things – I have learnt so much in the last 12 months from a range of PD’s, so now I need to think about the best way to put it all together and make decisions on the most valuable content / strategies to implement with my students.
I hope you find many useful things here, Louise!
Hi, Lyn looking forward to completing this course, I’m currently working in schools as learning support with MSL and Macq lit training thinking of getting into to tutoring…