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ERIC Number: ED028992
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1968
Pages: 61
Abstractor: N/A
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Youth Tutoring Youth; Supervisor's Manual.
National Commission on Resources for Youth, Inc., New York, NY.
Part one of this manual introduces the supervisor to the Youth Tutoring Youth program and outlines his particular responsibilities; the outline also provides a guide to seven resource chapters in part two which contain specific information about how to fulfill the responsibilities. Through the resource chapters, information on the following subjects is made available to the supervisor, who is responsible for training tutors (14- and 15-year-old underachievers who are enrolled in the enrolled in the In-School Neighborhood Youth Corps), helping recruit tutors and tutees (younger underachievers), and testing and evaluating tutor and tutee progress: (1) role-playing as a method for training tutors--a guideline and sample transcript; (2) workshops for training tutors in creating individual lessons for tutees, relating trips and community resources to tutees, administering information tests, writing daily lesson plans, using audiovisual aids, and maintaining good relations with tutees; (3) tutor remediation--suggested improvement activities for the tutor aside from tutoring; (4) tests and evaluation--types of data the supervisor might find useful to collect; (5) tutor and tutee recruitment; (6) materials for training supervisors, aides, and tutors and for explaining the program to others; and (7) commercial materials--a list of art materials and annotated lists of reference books, games, workbooks, and reading materials for tutors and tutees. SP 002 625 and SP 002 204 are related documents. (LP)
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Sponsor: Manpower Administration (DOL), Washington, DC.
Authoring Institution: National Commission on Resources for Youth, Inc., New York, NY.
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