Tutor Tips

Assisting in a multi-level classroom involves many different types of activities. One of these is “floating”, or moving around and helping students while they are working independently.If you are volunteering in a drop-in center or “lab”, you may be assisting many different students, each of whom is working on a different level and/or topic.

This activity gives students speaking and listening practice, as well as allowing them to discover their commonalities and unique qualities. Since some students may be uncomfortable telling falsehoods, something that is required if you play Three Truths and a False, why not try this variation?

This logic activity can be used to help learners work in a visual, concrete way with multiplication, fractions and percentages.

Assisting in a classroom involves many different types of activities. One of these is “floating”, or moving around and helping students while they are working independently.

Guess the news story, written conversation or role play, and more.

Gives lower level students speaking and listening practice; to give higher level students practice with critical thinking skills, as well as speaking and listening.

Notebook: Resources for the Adult Educator is a 16-page resource designed especially for teachers and tutors.

Learners will be able to read and interpret newspaper-style apartment ads.

Learners will be able to recognize phone numbers and distinguish their format from that of other personal information.

Makes grammar text exercises more engaging and more multi-level; open-ended exercises allow students to participate at their own ability levels.