Hello again,
I just found an article in Edutopia entitled: "What Makes a Successful Tutor?" The article states that one of the most consistent factors for successful tutoring is developing a strong personal relationship with a student.

"More and more parents and educators are realizing that tutoring gets to the heart of learning, personalizing the meaning and instruction of the subject at hand. With all the distraction in today's hyper-technological world, some face-to-face interaction through mentoring, tutoring and coaching is exactly what students need most."

How many of you are connecting with at least one student in your class that you can work with consistently. Or perhaps several students for whom you can rotate working with one-on-one? Please don't mention any student names but describe in a few sentences how this is working for you.

Hello all Community Mentors:
I found the articles you chose about education and mentoring to be very interesting. Some of you found some good tips and strategies that I think will be helpful to share with each other. Please post one or two ideas that you found in your first article. Then if you like, please respond to someone else's post.

We will use this blog as a way for all Community Mentors to have a discussion. I will post topics from time to time, and all of you can too. Please check back occasionally to see what is happening here. You need to have a Google account in order to post comments.

Thanks, and I look forward to reading more from all of you.
Linda