Here you will find different presentations, websites, media, and articles to support your tutor sessions, relationship-building, and context about math & literacy.
Remember to connect with your teachers for the best methods and learning strategies that they use!
- Understanding the Common Core: Hunt Institute Video Series
- Common Core: Math Standards
- Common Core: Literacy Standards
- Edutopia
- Teaching Tolerance: Our mission is to help teachers and schools educate children and youth to be active participants in a diverse democracy.
- Fostering Healthy Social & Emotional Development in Young Children: Specifically for Pre-K
- Teaching Without Words|Matthew Peterson|TED Talk: Visual Learning & Visual Feedback – Some of our schools are using or starting to use “STMath” which is a program that utilizes visual learning and feedback to teach math concepts.
- Literacy Across the Curriculum (From Orientation)
- Social Emotional Development (From Orientation)
- Challenging Tutoring Scenarios (From Orientation)
- Growth Mindset for Mentors*
- Supporting Marginalized Students in Stressful Times: Tips for Educators
- Cultural Competency: Arabic & Islamic Cultures
- Checking Yourself For Bias
- Fostering Growth Mindset in Trauma-Informed Classrooms
- Math Solutions: Provides grade-specific resources and advice for math instruction. Webinars, videos, and even quick tips provided here.
- National Council of Teachers of Mathematics: Search for resources based on topic – Create a free account to access resources; contact Chi if you need access to premium member resources.
- Math Games (for iOS, Androids, and web browsers): A great resource for using technology to learn math skills
- CoolMath: Internet math games
- Math Game Apps
- Multiplication Songs (From Orientation)
- Math TV: Videos and tutorials for math concepts – searchable by skills
- Khan Academy: Tutorials and videos – tutors can sign up for an account and choose the grade level they’d like to focus on
- Illustrative Math: Great step by step teacher guides for different middle school units and lessons
- PBS Math Club: Videos for math concepts
- Supporting English Language Learners in Math
- Supporting Students with Disabilities in Math
- Teaching Tolerance: Teaching Strategies
- Scholastic: Lessons and ideas for ELA; you can sort by grade levels and activities.
- Colorin Colorado: A bilingual site for educators and families of English language learners; find ELL strategies and best practices.
- Reading Tip Sheets for Educators: Categorized by grade level
- Selecting Reading Materials: Guidelines for Developing the Resources in Your Tutoring Library
- Reading Rockets: Launching young readers
- Key Tools for Implementing Evidence-Based Literacy Instruction: Check out the top 4 bullets!
- Foundational Skills to Support Reading for Understanding in Kindergarten Through 3rd Grade.
- Improving Reading Comprehension in Kindergarten Through 3rd Grade.
- Teaching Academic Content and Literacy to English Learners in Elementary and Middle School.
- Effective Literacy and English Language Instruction for English Learners in the Elementary Grades.
- Literacy Extension Packet Grades 3-5 (From Orientation): This packet provides an overview of how to approach literacy tutoring (e.g. ideas and activities, concepts for multiple levels, etc.)
- Tutoring Strategies for Emerging Readings PreK-2 (From Orientation): This packet provides an overview of how to approach literacy tutoring with emerging readers. Emergent literacy is a gradual process that takes place over time form birth until a child can read and write in what we consider to be a conventional sense.
- Strategies for English Language Learners (From Partners for Success)
- Colorin Colorado: A bilingual site for educators and families of English language learners; find ELL strategies and best practices.
- Reading Tip Sheets for Educators: Categorized by grade level
- Suggested Anti-Bias Strategies for Use With English Language Learners: Categorized by grade level
- Supporting English Language Learners: 1-page reference
- Supporting English Language Learners in Math
- Cultural Competency: Arabic & Islamic Cultures
- Helping Students Stay Focused
- Literacy Tutor Toolkit
- Math Tutor Toolkit
- Working in Small Groups
- Warm & Firm Presence
- Understanding Student Behavior Antecedents
- Checking for Understanding
*To count these trainings toward your timesheet/hours, you can fill out this reflection form for each starred* training or online module/video.
