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March 7, 2022
Resources for Volunteer Tutors Series: Tutor Tips
As winter turns to spring, keep your volunteers engaged and motivated with resources from Literacy Minnesota. Through a brief, weekly series in MN ABE Connect, learn about or be reminded of our tools to support volunteers in engaging with learners in meaningful ways.
For the first installment of the Resources for Volunteer Tutor Series, let’s look at Tutor Tips! Literacy Minnesota creates and shares this weekly tidbit delivered straight to your inbox. Here are the four categories that Tutor Tips fall into, along with a few recent examples:
Classroom activities
- Hold Up Your Number
- Weekly Free Reading Routine for Beginning Literacy and Beginning ESL
- Multiple Voices
Equity information
- Backwards Design to Improve Lesson Access for All Learners with 5 Moore Minutes
- Discover Karen Culture with the Karen Organization of Minnesota
- The Danger of a Single Story
Teaching resources
- News for You: A Free Teaching Resource for Black History Month
- In Her Kitchen Cooking Videos
- Pronunciation Resources for Learners and Tutors
How-tos
- The Annotate Feature in Zoom
- Wordwall for Easily Creating Your Own Online Activities
- Three Tech Tips for Teaching and Tutoring
Ensure volunteers in your program are getting these weekly blasts of inspiration by encouraging them to sign up for emailed Tutor Tips here. All past Tutor Tips are also available in the Educator Resources Library on our website. Just select “Tutor Tips” in the format filter and click “Search Now” and feel the inspiration wash over you!
