Current tutoring practices

Currently I work with students using the one-to-one tutoring model, the assignment-assistance model and the strategic tutoring model. I feel like the strategic tutoring model has been the most effective strategy for me and my students. This model allows me to work with a group of students who are struggling with certain skills and make the skills relevant by teaching it to them through classroom assignments. They are able to learn and practice the skills and stay caught up with their classroom work instead of fallingbehind, or missing assignments. I find that using this model the students are able to transfer the skills learned easlier to other assignments/work, than when I teach the skills in isolation.

DIfferentiated Instruction

One experience I have had with differentiated instruction was with a grade two math class. We were working on addition and I had some students who were still working on adding sums to 10 and then some of the class was working on adding sums to 18 and then there was another group that was working on adding two digit numbers without re-grouping. I created ability alike groups and then created materials for each group at their level. I would work with one group and the EA would work with another group and one group would work independently, this would switch daily. I found that even though I was differentiating the content with the class I was still differentiating instruction within each group. So within the group I would also use a variety of instructional strategies to meet the student's learning needs. This was a very time comsuming task when I first started, but as the year went on it became less time comsuming and very enjoyable! The bonus to me was seeing how much success the students were experiencing.