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January 14, 2009

National Tutoring Association (NTA) 17th Annual Conference

April 4 – 8, 2009
Marriott City Center Hotel, Salt Lake City, UT

The National Tutoring Association (NTA) is a group of over 6500 individuals and organizations that are devoted to supporting students achieve success through tutoring.  Members include peer tutors, paraprofessional tutors, professional tutors, literacy volunteers, tutor trainers and administrators, and private tutors.  NTA has members from elementary schools, middle schools, high schools, colleges, universities, community programs, faith based programs, and NCLB providers.

This years theme is "Busy as Bees with Innovations."  Concurrent sessions will cover recruiting, training, and retaining tutors; current trends in practice and research; use of technology; understanding the law; tutoring special populations; online tutoring; grant writing; learning preferences; improving tutorial leadership for directors and coordinators; conflict management; building and marketing private or community programs; basic nuts and bolts of tutoring; and motivating students and other topics.

The Keynote speaker lineup includes Dr. Sandi Ayaz, Dr. Scarlette Spears Studdard and and special guest speaker, Dr. Crystal Kaukendall.  Dr. Crystal Arlene Kuykendall is considered one of the most dynamic individuals of our time. A critical thinker, analyst, motivator, and mentor. Dr. Kuykendall is a highly sought after and savvy speaking sensation, an engaging educator, human relations expert, legal analyst/litigator, endearing author and loving mother.

Full conference details at www.ntatutor.org, or contact ntatutor@aol.com

Popularity: 42% [?]

Filed under: Business Practices, Leadership, Learning Centers, NTA (National Tutoring Association), Pedagogy, Peer-Tutoring, Research, Technology, Training/Education, Tutoring Practices

January 1, 2009

Spring 2009 Professional Development Events

The primary source for this list of events is the Journal of Developmental Education (JDE), reprinted here with permission. 
For more information visit http://www.ncde.appstate.edu/jde.htm

January 4-6, 2009, The International Center for Supplemental Instruction offers a Supplemental Instruction Workshop at the University of Missouri, Kansas City. For more information visit http://www.umkc.edu/cad/si/

February 11-13, 2009, Pennsylvania Association for Adult Continuing Education (PAACE) Midwinter Conference on Adult Education, "PAACE Yourself: Keeping Up with Adult Education," to be held at the Hershey Lodge, Hershey, PA.  For more information visit http://www.paacesite.org

February 12-13, 2009, National ACademic ADvising Association (NACADA), Advising 2.0: Utilizing Technology Effectively for Campus-wide Advising, Hilton Clearwater Beach Resort, Clearwater, FL. For more information visit http://www.nacada.ksu.edu

February 25-March 1, 2009, National Association for Developmental Education (NADE) 33rd Annual Conference, "Where Excellence Blooms," to be held at the Sheraton Four Seasons in Greensboro, NC. For more information visit http://www.nade.net

March 8-11, 2009, 20th annual Teaching Academic Survival Skills Conference (TASS), sponsored by Northern Essex Community College (NECC) to be held at Palm Beach Atlantic University, West Palm, Florida. For more information visit http://tassconference.org/

March 26-27, 2009, Pennsylvania Association for Developmental Education (PADE) State Conference, "Increasing the Odds of Student Success," to be held at the Holiday Inn Harrisburg-Hershey, Grantville, PA. For more information visit http://www.pade-pa.org/conference-info.html

March 29-31, 2009, New York College Learning Skills Association’s (NYCLSA) 32nd Annual Symposium on Developmental Education "Retention: Students – Stories – Successes" to be held at the Radisson Hotel Corning, Corning, NY. For more information visit http://nyclsa.org/annual_conf_current.htm

April 4-8, 2009, National Tutoring Association (NTA) 17th NTA Annual Conference "Tutors" Busy as Bees with Innovation" to be held at the Marriott City Center Hotel.  For more information visit http://www.ntatutor.com/conferences.htm

April 5-8, 2009, Association for the Tutoring Profession (ATP) Annual Conference to be held at Hyatt Regency in Albuquerque, NM. For more information visit http://www.myatp.org

Popularity: 38% [?]

Filed under: Leadership, NTA (National Tutoring Association), Pedagogy, Research, Training/Education

May 15, 2008

National Tutoring Association (NTA) Expands the Menu for Tutor Training and Certification

by Bob Lasiewicz, Managing Director, Crossroads of Learning

NTA’s online certification program now comes in seven new flavors.  The Comprehensive "Tutoring Foundations" training program remains the flagship offering, which leads directly to NTA Level I Advanced certification.  Beginning this Spring, a new flexible menu was launched to serve smaller appetites. Tutors can now enroll in separate Level I Basic, Intermediate, or Advanced modules. Also new is the assessment program of tutor skills testing, at these same levels. All options satisfy the knowledge requirements for respective NTA Level I certifications.

“The Comprehensive training program is the full banquet for those seeking a thorough grounding and Level I Advanced certification," noted Bob Lasiewicz, Managing Director at Crossroads of Learning, the developer and host of the training and testing.  "We found, however, that there are many other tutors and learning center directors out there who wanted an ala carte menu and shorter time commitments at each stage.  We also prepared a solution for those experienced tutors who want to qualify for certification through skills testing.”

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Popularity: 22% [?]

Filed under: Crossroads of Learning, NTA (National Tutoring Association), Training/Education

December 3, 2007

Free Access to the Greatest Minds in Tutoring

(Article length 468 words)

By Bob Gelman   
Crossroads of Learning Community Manager

Activity in the Crossroads of Learning Online Community is heating up, as more individuals and organizations sign-up to engage in dialogues, meetings, and resource sharing. The Community is another service that is available to those involved in or interested in one-to-one education and training, at no charge through the Crossroads of Learning web site. Like this Journal, it is packed with information, features, and functions that are designed for one-to-one educators, and available nowhere else.  Membership in this online Community is free, and it takes just a minute to sign-up.
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Popularity: 23% [?]

Filed under: Admin/Management, College, Community, Crossroads of Learning, High School, K-8, Learning Centers, NTA (National Tutoring Association), Peer-Tutoring, Small Private Practices

August 30, 2007

A Treasure Map Of Peer And Volunteer Tutoring

By Dr. Keith Topping

Abstract

My main focus here will be upon peer tutoring, and within that upon peer tutoring within colleges and universities. However, there will be implications for peer tutoring in other settings and other kinds of tutoring.

HISTORY

Peer tutoring has a long history, and can be traced back to Old Testament times. One of the most powerful factors in its popularity and effectiveness is encapsulated in the famous question from Joseph Joubert in 1842: "To teach is to learn twice over"-and this thought had been expressed earlier by the Ancient Greeks. Baltasar Gracian touched on the important social and affective components of peer tutoring in 1642 when he wrote: "Make your friends your teachers, and mingle the pleasures of conversation with the advantages of instruction."
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Popularity: 12% [?]

Filed under: Admin/Management, NTA (National Tutoring Association), Peer-Tutoring, Productivity

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