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Show Alpine Softool listriei SaHiiiarizes Tutorial Program Homeowners Can Improve Efficiency of Heating Systems There are many many variations to tutor-teaching. This report wilf summarize the program of Alpine School District. Dis-trict. Also included will be a report of attitudes expressed by teachers and parents from recent re-cent communications with both groups. TUTORIAL TEACHER Prescriptive tutoring in reading read-ing is a complicated program requiring a high degree of organizing orga-nizing and teaching skill from the tutorial teacher. Some of the activities this teacher must do with finesse are: 1. Test and help screen in area of reading skills first, second and third grade students referred by homeroom teachers. The counselors counse-lors also do some specialized testing. 2. Develop an instructional sequence of reading skills for each student admitted for instruction. ins-truction. 3. Provide a daily prescription for guidance of the tutor. 4. Help tutees and tutors set instructional goals, devise methods of personal recognition and reward when the goals are reached. 5. Do all testing and checking of progress for each student and keep records of these for guidance guid-ance of each student. 6. Orient, train and guide student stu-dent tutors in the tutoring process. Tutor motivation and training is a key to the success of the program. 7. Arrange to give personal attention and encouragement to each tutee and tutor each day. 8. Coordinate with homeroom teachers in such a way that all assigned students can come to tutorial instruction without missing mis-sing vital homeroom instruction. 9. Visit the homeroom of each tutee to observe the student in his usual classroom environment at least in alternate months. This view of the student is often very different from his performance in tutoring. 10. Coordinate instructional strategy with the homeroom teacher so that both are doing similar activities and reinforcing the instruction given the student. 11. With the counselor, schedule sche-dule and conduct at least three parent-teacher conferences during dur-ing the school year. The homeroom teacher also attends. 12. Provide each parent with assistance and direction for helping help-ing the tutee at home. Parents who have consistenly given personal per-sonal assistance to their child make a noticeable contribution to the child's success. 13. Coordinate activities with the counselor in such a way that tutees with special problems are given special attention. Prescriptions Prescrip-tions developed by the counselor for remediating emotional-physical problems are funneled through the tutorial teacher to the tutee, through direct consultations consul-tations are frequently conducted by the counselor. COUNSELING Some students who enter the program show normal intelligence intellig-ence but seem unable to learn or retain information taught to them in the usual classroom process. Special techniques must be used to help these students overcome their handicaps. This assignmentis given to counselors and psychologists. Testing and observations are used with interview inter-view techniques to help determine deter-mine the best approach to use. Some students have had such a low opinion of themselves that they are unable to learn at a normal rate. Counselors are assigned as-signed to assist in correcting these problems. Since instruction in reading cannot be successful separate and apart from many of these other problems some children fame, the homeroom teacher, tutorial teacher, counselor and parents who cooperate together to help the students be successful. success-ful. TUTORS Usually fifth and sixth grade students are selected as tutors, though some schools also use fourth grade students. The following follo-wing are some of the duties and characteristics of successful tutors: 1. Tutors are released from their homerooms 30 minutes daily to tutor a younger child. 2. Tutors are taught a specific teaching procedure which they follow as they work with the tutees. 3. Tutors are expected to maintain main-tain their standing in their regular regu-lar class. A few are selected for the specific help it may give them personally. 4. Tutors are sometimes chosen to build their own ego and self concept or to improve their own reading skills. In such instances, in-stances, the tutorial teacher supervises more closely than normal to assure excellence in the program of the tutee. 5. Sometimes students who have extreme conduct problems in the classroom are markedly improved in behavior when assigned as-signed to tutoring. They often make superior tutors. However, only a few such individuals can successfully be used. 6. There is a personal pride developed by the tutor in the success of his tutee. Often the relationship developed between tutor and tutee extends to non--tutorial activities at home and school. 7. The program prospers best when changes of tutors are held to a minimum. 8. Quite frequently tutors write a note to the tutee's parents telling what the tutee has learned lear-ned that day. TUTEES Students beginning the process of learning to read sometimes have difficulty though they have n apparent ability to learn. Most students admitted to the program are in the first and second grades with a few from third grade. Our plan is to try to prevent the discouragement which accompanies failure. Tutees have the following characteristics or problems: At the beginning of the school year they show evidence of difficulty diffi-culty learning to read. After special testing, an evaluation committee composed of the tutorial tuto-rial teacher, counselor and principal prin-cipal make the selections for the program. Each tutee has the usual reading instruction in his homeroom each day. With the tutorial instruction, he gets reading read-ing help twice daily at school. Vision and auditory checks are administered to all applicants. Vision checks are administered through use of a telebinocular. TEACHERS OF TUTORS In an effort to examine tutoring tutor-ing from many points of view, the program director met in each school with the teachers of the tutors, usually fifth and sixth grade students. These are excellent excel-lent students who are concerned about the students in their charge. char-ge. When students leave their rooms for thirty minutes daily to tutor another student, they are concerned about what is missed. This concern throws a larger teaching burden on them to help the tutor keep up in his work. Some of their comments are as follows: 1. Many students have homework home-work now who did not have any before they started tutoring. 2. Some tutor students who were quick to do assignments, are now challenged to keep up. It appears to help them use their time more wisely. 3. "Some of my tutors who were not reading very wekk are getting two reading sessions each day - one in tutoring and one in my room - and they are progressing very well. 1 think this is much more valuable to them than what they might do in my room. It is about the first chance they have really had to offer meaningful service that is needed by someone else." 4. Several tutors had a low self concept. They have been given a big boost by simply being chosen as a tutor and another boost because they are important to someone else. 5. All teachers reported positively posi-tively about the experience this gave the tutors. Not one wanted the program discontinued. Over thirty teachers were involved in grades four to six. PARENT REACTIONS TO TUTORING PROGRAM SURVEY SUR-VEY An opinion survey was sent to the parents of tutors. The following follow-ing statements summarize the varied expressions in their responses: res-ponses: The tutor learns patience. He also uses his training to help She's dreaming ofa Lady Seio Designer Watch m fvs Everything's elegant but the price. All Seiko watches are sutomation-made, so you pay only for ru me Timepiece, not the time it took to TS!-fi make it. Come choose te a Ladv Seiko for vour lill favorite lady. ZW360M-Woven-look golden-tone adjustable bracelet, yellow case, gilt dial. $95.00 So Many Nice Things at Read's Jewelry younger family members with their school work - and does it skillfully. He has his ego built up. The tutor has found how much time his tutee has wasted by goofing off according to him, and this had made him a better student. He also has learned that all people do not learn at the same speed and some need special help. The tutor is responsible res-ponsible for completing homeroom assignments and has learned responsibility in so doing. He is learning the feeling that comes from helping others and really likes it, and has gained a tolerance for those who have problems instead of belittling them. The tutor has extra energy and this program has taken care of some of the excess. For the tutor who has no younger children in the family, this has provided what the parents feel a very valuable experience. For students who have personality conflicts with their classroom teacher the team experience of working with the tutorial teacher sometimes provides a successful experience for this student. CLASSROOM TEACHER The classroom teacher is most responsible for the education of each child in her room. The tutorial tuto-rial program is supplementary to the regular instruction for maximum maxi-mum effectiveness, all of the professional personnel helping each student needs to coordinate their activities. As the behavior patterns of tutorial students change, the activities ac-tivities of the student are reported repor-ted to the counselor and, or the tutorial teacher. The classroom teacher helps build the status of tutoring by reinforcing positive learning experience by the tutees as they return to the classrooms. If handled properly, every child wants to be a tutee. Our experience is that all want to be a tutee. There is no stigma against it when conducted properly. The classroom teacher participates partici-pates with tutorial counselor and teacher in the parent conferences. conferen-ces. This helps coordinate the education program for each student. Each conference is conducted con-ducted a minimum of thirty minutes. Reading test scores are told at the first conference and as gains are made, these too are shared. As parents see the gains, they become stronger supporters of the schools. Often, they have been critics. ! ! 1 PARENTS Over two hundred elementary students are taught in the Title I tutoring program each year. The role of the parent in the success of each student is very definite. Tutees who have a parent sit down with them each night in a reading session learn to read much more rapidly than if they did not have his contact. This means that the parent listens to the child read. The tutee reading a book at home without the personal per-sonal influence of a parent is not sufficient for results. Parents who have taken the necessary hour or two to be trained in tutorial techniques by When cold weather envelopes the area, as it has done this past week, there are numerous steps homeowners can take to improve the efficiency of their heating systems and thus stay more comfortable while reducing heating heat-ing costs, too. Here is a list of suggestions prepared by Mountain Fuel Supply Company, the natural gas utility serving this area : 1. Check your furnace filter to make certain it is clean. If the filter is clogged, it will block the flow of warm air into your home and force your furnace to work longer hours trying to provide heat. Either clean or .replace dirty filters. 2. Try to keep from opening and closing outside doors unnecessarily. un-necessarily. Each time a door is opened, heat escapes, and your furnace has to work overtime to compensate for the lost heat. 3. Forced air heating systems rely upon the cirulation of air from the furnace through heat outlets and back through cold air returns to the furnace again. These heat outlets and cold air returns must be free of obstruction obstruc-tion for the heating system to function efficiently. 4. Sunshine is free- and it's warm; so when the sun is shining, open up the window blinds, shades and curtains and let the sun in. It's an easy way to help reduce your heating costs. 5. When the sun goes down or is obscured by clouds or fog, keep the window coverings closed. clo-sed. They will form an extra layer of insulation against the cold and help assure your comfort. com-fort. 6. Check the weatherstripping around doors and windows and insulation over your ceilings. The more you can do to stop the infiltration of cold into your home, the warmer you will be. 7. If you are one who must open a window at night for fresh air, make sure the incoming cold air is confined to your bedroom and isn't chilling the rest of the house. Chilling a house by opening open-ing a window puts strain on your furnace to warm it up again. the tutorial teacher has learned some techniques to help her entire en-tire family. The entire tutorial program is built on praise and lack of criticism. At the parent teacher conferences, con-ferences, activities and characteristics charac-teristics of the tutee are discussed. discus-sed. Usually suggested activities are suggested for parents and teachers. These are very often quite prescriptive and if followed will help the child succeed. SUMMARY This program succeeds, particularly parti-cularly when the personnel involved invol-ved follow the program and inject in-ject a degree of enthusiasm into it. Factual information can be taught to most students. However, Howe-ver, this program has some side benefits which must be considered con-sidered when weighing the values of it. These are the personal perso-nal relationships and understandings under-standings which are a by product of the tutoring process. With greater family involvement, the program can help slow the disintegration disin-tegration of humans one to another by helping some fine students gain greater empathy for others, in the family and out. We hope to continue. 8. Set your thermostat at a comfortable temperature and leave it there. Contrary to popular popu-lar belief, turning up the thermostat thermo-stat doesn't make the furnace produce heat any faster. What it does is keep the furnace operating operat-ing longer which uses up more fuel. If your thermostat is operating opera-ting properly, it will automatically automati-cally maintain the desired temperature. tem-perature. 9. If there are some rooms in your home that are not in use regularly this winter, turn off the registers and radiators in those rooms and keep the door closed. There is no purpose in heating an unused room. 10. If you have a fireplace, be sure the damper is closed when the fireplace is not being used. With a gas log fireplace, the damper should be secured in a partially open position at all times. ti-mes. 11. Heating systems need regular regu-lar maintenance and care. If you did not have a furnace expert thoroughly inspect your furnace and heating system this fall, call him now. 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