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Intelligent Tutoring Systems: 5th International Conference, ITS 2000, Montreal, Canada, June 19-23, 2000 Proceedings

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Product DescriptionThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems, ITS 2000, held in Montreal, Canada, in June 2000. The 61 revised papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 110 submissions; also included are 6 invited presentations, 17 posters, and 7 workshop descriptions. The papers are organized in [...]

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Literacy Tutoring That Works: A Look at Successful in-School,

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Learn how to -Begin a literacy tutoring program -Enhance or redirect the focus of your current program -Conduct research to inform your current tutoring initiatives With this wide-ranging volume, literacy leaders, practitioners, and scholars will gain much-needed information about high-quality, evidence-based extended learning programs. Contributors present principles for designing effective tutoring programs in school, after [...]

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Peer and Cross-Age Tutoring in the Schools: An Individualized Supplement to Group Instruction

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Product DescriptionThis volume is produced from digital images created through the University of Michigan University Library's large-scale digitization efforts. The Library seeks to preserve the intellectual content of items in a manner that facilitates and promotes a variety of uses. The digital reformatting process results in an electronic version of the original text that can [...]

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The Tutoring Revolution: Applying Research for Best Practices,

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The Tutoring Revolution presents a comprehensive research-driven perspective on what we know and don't know about tutoring. The authors link theories, research, and practice together in a coherent, consistent manner to form a new foundation of specific recommendations and strategies to help improve tutoring across America. The Tutoring Revolution: Applying Research for Best Practices, Policy [...]

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Peer Tutoring: A Teacher's Resource Guide

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This guide gives teachers specific instructional methods to help students raise their skills and critical thinking abilities and provides step-by-step guidance in designing a tutoring program, training the tutors, and conducting meaningful assessment and evaluation. Tags: critical thinking abilities, step guidance, Columbus City Schools, specific instructional methods, peer tutoring, Critical thinking

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Training the Reading Team: A Guide for Supervisors of a Volunteer Tutoring Program

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Product DescriptionA companion volume to Lesley Mandel Morrow and Barbara J. Walker's "The Reading Team", this book guides supervisors of a volunteer reading program through each step of a tutor-training program: from publicizing the program, to recognizing the roles of each reading team member, to training volunteers in how to tutor young students effectively. Based [...]

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Tutoring: Webster's Timeline History, 712 - 2007

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Product DescriptionWebster's bibliographic and event-based timelines are comprehensive in scope, covering virtually all topics, geographic locations and people. They do so from a linguistic point of view, and in the case of this book, the focus is on "Tutoring," including when used in literature (e.g. all authors that might have Tutoring in their name). As [...]

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Longman Guide to Peer Tutoring (2nd Edition)

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Grounded in current writing center theory and practice, The Allyn & Bacon Guide to Peer Tutoring provides students with a comprehensive introduction to effective tutoring.   Throughout the book, readers hear the voices of tutors and writers in first-person peer tutor accounts, reflective essays, and transcripts from actual sessions. Within each chapter, techniques, models, and [...]

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The Howard Street Tutoring Manual, Second Edition: Teaching

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Updated with important advances in research and practice, the second edition of this indispensable manual provides a comprehensive guide to one-on-one instruction for struggling readers in grades 1 to 3. The book addresses the "hows," "whats," and "whys" of setting up a volunteer or professional tutoring program, supplies assessment guidelines and reproducible forms, and presents [...]

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Paired Science Handbook: Parental Involvement and Peer Tutoring in Science

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Product DescriptionThis practical handbook for teachers and parents shows how to develop greater scientific ability, motivation and confidence in children aged five to 11, by involving parents, siblings and older peers in schools as tutors. This invovlement allows the child the individual attention which makes science at a young age interesting and easier to understand. [...]

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Tutoring as a Successful Business - an Expert Tutor Shows You

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How to tutor everyone from pre-schoolers through college and adults. How to set-up and promote a full-time or part-time, professional tutoring business. And how to tutor your children at home. It's all here, everything you have to know. Tutoring as a Successful Business - An Expert Tutor Shows You How Tags: Services for Hire, part [...]

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Book Buddies, Second Edition: A Tutoring Framework For

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This popular, practical resource provides guidelines for setting up a successful tutorial program in grades K–3 and presents a field-tested lesson format for individualized instruction. Clear explanations and examples demonstrate how to use the book’s wealth of activities and exercises to assess students and build specific reading, writing, and spelling skills. Adding greatly to the [...]

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Centuries of Tutoring: A History of Alternative Education in America and Western Europe

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Product DescriptionThis book examines both the development of tutoring as a form of education and its influence on "schooling." It offers a review of what past educators wrote on their work, the lives of their students, and the wider socio-cultural ramifications during centuries of tutoring. The role of the tutor and the tutor-governess is reviewed [...]

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Intelligent Tutoring Systems: Third International Conference, ITS'96, Montreal, Canada, June 12-14, 1996. Proceedings

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Product DescriptionThis book presents the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems, ITS '96, held in Montreal, Canada, in June 1996. The book contains 69 revised papers selected from a total of 128 submissions; also included are six invited papers from well-known speakers. All in all, the book reflects the state-of-the-art [...]

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The Probability Tutoring Book: An Intuitive Course For

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A self-study guide for practicing engineers, scientists, and students, this book offers practical, worked-out examples on continuous and discrete probability for problem-solving courses. It is filled with handy diagrams, examples, and solutions that greatly aid in the comprehension of a variety of probability problems. The Probability Tutoring Book: An Intuitive Course for Engineers and Scientists [...]

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How to Start a Home-Based Tutoring Business (Home-Based

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How to Start a Home-Based Tutoring Business will help prospective tutors feel comfortable in their choice to proceed with starting a home-based business.  It addresses the issues of organizing your workspace, marketing your business, keeping customers happy, and monitoring student progress to show results… all from the perspective of an educator who has accomplished these goals [...]

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