Tutor Training Centers I Found Online

University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
http://www.utc.edu/Administration/StudentSupportServices/OnlineTutorTraining/OnlineTutorTraining.php

• Self-paced course potential tutors can take online
• 5 steps to being an effective tutor
• Effective listening techniques
• Attention to learning styles and disabilities

Boise State University
http://www.webpages.uidaho.edu/bestpractices/peer_train.html

• Tutor code of ethics
• Peer tutor success stories
• Emphasizes empathy and trust

Wellesley College
http://new.wellesley.edu/pltc/tutors/tutortraining

65 page tutor training manual in PDF format available for download, which includes:

• The art of questioning
• Tips for being clever and creative, flexible and patient
• OK to admit when you don't know something

Dartmouth College
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~writing/materials/tutor/toc.shtml

• Process approach
• Attending to the affective
• Implied KWL+

 Seattle Tutoring Coalition
http://www.seattletutoringcoalition.org/register/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=41

• Volunteer organization rather than a college
• Provides tutoring training and opportunities for anyone with interest
• Emphasizes collaboration and community

Project Read, North San Mateo County
http://www.literacyworks.org/clls/archive/resources/curriculum/best_practices/index_best_prac.htm

• Volunteer organization
• Resources from all over the Bay Area
• Wide variety of topics on or related to tutoring such as learning styles, disabilities, tutoring in poetry