Tutoring Skills - Improving communication skills for effective tutoring

There are two themes in Tutoring Skills:

Teacher tutoring studentThis 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 sheets with activities:

  • Effective questioning information sheet - Word or PDF
  • Effective questioning - reflecting on practice - Word or PDF
  • Reflective listening information sheet - Word or PDF
  • Reflective listening - practising reflective listening - Word or PDF
  • Non-verbal communications information sheet - Word or PDF
  • Non-verbal communication - developing the skills - Word or PDF
  • Summaries information sheet - Word or PDF
  • Summarising for change
    • what did Jules say? - Word or PDF
    • practising the skill - Word or PDF
  • Change talk information sheet - Word or PDF
  • Change talk - Word or PDF
  • Preparation and planning information sheet - Word or PDF
  • Preparation and planning
    • audit current practice - Word or PDF
    • reflecting on practice - Word or PDF

Information sheets with video footage, activities and interactive quizzes:

  • You will notice that on some sections of the audio commentary reference is made to a CD-ROM. Please disregard the comment. You have all the information on this section of the website.
  • What is motivational dialogue? - Web pages
  • How people change - Web pages
  • Effective questioning - Web pages
  • Reflective listening - Web pages
  • Non-verbal communication - Web pages
  • Summarising - Web pages
  • Change talk - Web pages
  • Preparation and planning - Web pages

Activities to use with learners:

  • What are you like? - Word or PDF
  • How well did I do? - Word or PDF
  • Losses and gains analysis - Word or PDF
  • What's important to me? - Word or PDF
  • The ABC technique - Word or PDF

Activity with PowerPoint slides:

  • The Data Protection Act 1998 - PPT
  • Confidentiality and disclosure - good and bad practice - Word or PDF
  • The envelope activity - Word or PDF
  • Information sheet - Ways to improve confidentiality - 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).