Tutoring Skills - Improving the assessment of personal and social skills

There are two themes in Tutoring Skills

Teacher tutoring student

This section provides ideas that can be used to develop:

  • tutoring skills
  • communication skills
  • planning and assessing induction programmes.

There are resources in other sections that can be used in conjunction with this section. They include:

Resources

Information and audit sheets:

  • The Learning Journey - Word or PDF
  • Audit of good practice for initial assessment and induction programmes - Word or PDF
  • Introduction to explaining and improving initial assessment and feedback - Word or PDF
  • Defining personal and social skills - Word or PDF
  • The 4 stages of using observations to assess personal and social skills - Word or PDF
    • Stage 1: Preparing to assess and develop personal and social skills - Word or PDF
    • Stage 2: Using observations to gain evidence about personal and social skills - Word or PDF
    • Stage 3: Making objective assessments - Word or PDF
    • Stage 4: Giving feedback and agreeing objectives - Word or PDF

Activities

Stage 1: Preparing to assess and develop personal and social skills

Activities with video footage:

Activity:

  • Choosing 'dual-purpose' activities for learners - Word or PDF

Information sheets and handouts for the activities:

  • Handout 1.1 A personal and social skills framework - Word or PDF
  • Handout 1.2 Translating the framework into observation checklists - Word or PDF
  • Handout 1.3 From broad skill areas to possible assessments - Word or PDF
  • Handout 1.4 From possible assessments to observable behaviour - Word or PDF

Stage 2: Using observations

Activities with video footage:

Information sheets and handouts for the activities:

  • Common confusions about subjective and objective - Word or PDF
  • Handout 2.1 Observations - objective or subjective? - Word or PDF
  • Handout 2.2 Observations - objective or subjective? (answer sheet) - Word or PDF

Stage 3: Making objective assessments

Activities with video footage:

Activity:

Information sheets and handouts for the activity:

  • Handout 3.1 Setting SMART targets - Word or PDF
  • Handout 3.2 Where's the evidence - Word or PDF

Stage 4: Giving feedback

Activity with video footage:

Activity:

  • Setting SMART targets - Word or PDF
  • Handout 3.1 Setting SMART targets - Word or PDF

Information sheets:

  • How to run effective feedback and review sessions - Word or PDF
  • Comments on the role play - Word or PDF

Activities with PowerPoint slides:

  • Confidentiality and the Law - PowerPoint
  • The envelope activity - Word or PDF
  • Cards on practice issues - Word or PDF
  • Information sheet - Ways to improve confidentiality - Word or PDF

Video footage:

Activities to use with learners:

  • Ice breaker activities - some ideas - Word or PDF
  • Skills checklist template for using with ice breaker activities - Word or PDF
  • Checklist for 4 sets of personal and social skills that can be observed in group work - Word or PDF
  • What's my line? - Word or PDF
  • Life map stages
  • How do you feel today? - Word or PDF
  • How did I do? - Word or PDF
  • What are you like? - Word or PDF

Information: If you want more information about the source of the original materials and how to obtain them, or how the materials in this section apply to the LLUK standards for teacher training, please use the links below (will open in new window).