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Speaking Events - 2008
February 8th - Nevada School Counselor’s Association Conference Keynote - Successful Intelligence and the New Global Competition for Talent - Las Vegas, NV
February 28th - NADE Pre-Conference Institute - Successful Intelligence and the New Global Competition for Talent - Boston, MA
March 7th - Coaching Skills Session/Faculty Training - Seminole Community College - Seminole County, FL
March 14th - Coaching Skills Session/Faculty Training - Aurora Community College - Aurora, CO
April 3rd - VSCA Conference Keynote - Counselors as Coaches Becoming Champions of Change - Richmond, VA
April 9th - NTA Conference Ending Keynote - Coaching Skills - Dallas, TX
May 1st - Gear Up Awards Banquet Keynote - Wyoming Central College - Riverton, WY
May 19th - Midwest Tri-state Councelors Conference Keynote - Counselors as Coaches: Working with Emotional and Social Intelligence - Madison, WI
June 18th - Academic Coaches Training - Denver, CO
July 14th, 15th and 16th - Academic Coaches Training - Denver, CO
July 29th and 30th - Keys to Success Workshop - Denver, CO
December 1st, 2nd and 3rd - Academic Coaches Training - Denver, CO
NTA, a LifeBound partner, sponsers TutorPalooza
Busy day of training ends in peer tutor certification for 500 students at TutorPalooza
by Jessica Bobula
Oct 16, 2007
TutorPalooza tü-tər-pə-lüz-zə (n.) 1. an all-day certification extravaganza held at Wheeling High School for about 500 student instructors.
Sponsored by the National Tutoring Association, TutorPalooza kicked off the association’s Peer Tutoring Initiative with the one-day training and certification event. The free event concluded National Tutoring Week, and each participant received a Level 1 Basic certification.
Most of the trainees attend suburban Chicago high schools, but some traveled from as far as Detroit to participate on Saturday. Even a few college students from the University of St. Francis in Joliet joined the group.
Taking advantage of the high school’s broadcast studio, small groups of tutors and their trainers gathered in classrooms throughout the school to view a live feed of the day’s training lessons.
Linda Stevens Hjorth, a professor at DeVry University in Addison and member of the association, led a few sessions from the broadcast studio. Hjorth ran a tutoring ethics exercise, presenting the case of a hypothetical student who tells his tutor that his teacher had said he could ask his tutor for answers to an assignment. The tutors-in-training wrote their responses, which were conveyed to Hjorth in the studio. Many trainees wrote that doing work for students is unethical.
“Many of your responses were appropriate,” Hjorth said, “because tutors can never give answers.”
Hjorth advised the students that the best tutors always consider ethics, integrity, wisdom and respect.
“Think about ethics on a daily basis,” Hjorth said.
At the end of the day, the tutors gathered in the auditorium to hear Sandi Ayaz, executive director of the National Tutoring Associaton. Ayaz said they should be proud of their tutoring efforts.
“You’ll never be anything more than you are right now,” Ayaz said, “because what you are (going to be), you already are. You just don’t know it yet.
“And that’s why it is so extraordinary what you get to do,” she said. “Because what the students you help are (going to be), they already are. They just don’t know it yet.”
An important aspect of the relationship between student and tutor is the benefits both parties reap, Ayaz said. Studies show that tutors’ grades and test scores increase, and both students and tutors are gratified when their work ends in success, she said.
Though they were newly certified, some tutors had already experienced those benefits.
“Thank you for allowing me to have the opportunity to work with students,” said Linette Rayahin, a student at Maine West High School in Des Plaines and a recipient of one of four scholarships given at the event, “I couldn’t write such a good essay as this if it weren’t for my experience tutoring.”
©2001 - 2007 Medill Reports - Chicago, Northwestern University. A publication of the Medill School.
New Online Coaching Skills Seminar
In an email interview, Carter shared a few thoughts with Recruitment & Retention in Higher Education on what she asserts is one of the major retention roadblocks students face – a disconnect between themselves and the staff and faculty who work with them.
Speaking Events - 2007
Student Success Workshop- Friday, October 5th
Be the Change: Successful Intelligence and the New Global Competition for Talent - Middlesex Community College - Middleton, CT
Parent Session - Wednesday, October 10th
Kent Denver School - Denver, CO
Coaching Skills Session - Friday, October 19th
Golden West College - Huntington Beach, CA
National Conference on Student Leadership Keynote - Saturday, October 20th - Anaheim, CA
Parent Session - Monday, October 22th
Estes Park School District #R-3 - Estes Park, CO
CRLA-Wednesday, October 31st
Coaching and the Habits of Mind - Portland, OR
MCI Conference Keynote - Friday, November 9th - Virginia Beach, VA
KADE Conference Keynote - Friday, November 9th, 6pm - Bowling Green, KY
National Conference on Student Leadership Keynote - Saturday, November 17th - Orlando, FL
Parent Session - Monday, November 26th
Estes Park School District #R-3 - Estes Park, CO
Academic Coaches Training and Certification- December 3-5
Denver, CO
Gifts and Talents for Teenagers
