Reading Lab
Tutor Checklist

Your duties as a reading tutor in The Learning Center are to help students improve their reading skills quickly and efficiently.  You need to be a caring and nurturing individual who wants to help others.   You need to be open to learning how the reading skills are acquired and to be sensitive to the difficulties that some students may have in improving these skills.  You need to be able to explain a wide range of concepts from identifying the main idea of a passage to understanding analogies.  Knowing the Reading Lab priorities, procedures, and programs will help you become a more effective tutor.

A.  Priorities of  a Tutor on Duty

If the Reading Lab area seems chaotic and you are the only tutor on duty, put on your best smile and follow the  priorities below.  

  1. Serving the student(s) at the reading desk or scoring machine

  2. Keeping an eye on  the AIMS testing area

  3. Providing one-to-one assistance to a student

  4. Helping out in the ESL or Writing areas

  5. Filing student work

  6. Helping students with particular problems, e.g., computer, printer

  7. Assisting at the Front Desk

  8. Working on special projects assigned by Reading Lab Coordinator

B.  Reading Lab Programs, Procedures, and Practices

The adage, "Knowledge is Power," applies here.  The more you know, the more indispensable you become. To be an effective reading lab tutor, you should attempt to master all the programs and activities listed below.   For all procedures, you should know the steps involved well enough to assist a student effectively.   For all printed materials, you must know where it is located and be able to explain the directions for using it clearly.  For computer programs, you must know how to access these programs in order to help students log on to them. You must know how student records are to be kept (manually or in the programs).  Hence, the more you know, the smarter the tutor you appear to be, and the more likely TLC will find you indispensable and never let you go.:)

AIMS Program

    Setting up a section
        1. registering students into the AIMS computer
        2. making student folders
        3. making student labels
        4. marking appropriate starting place on students yellow cards
 

    Knowing general procedures and practices
        1. scoring AIMS tests using Scantron
        2. scoring AIMS tests using the master key
        3. marking student time-on-task sheets
        4. giving an appropriate lesson assignment for printed material
        5. giving an appropriate lesson assignment for AIMS Online tutorials and practices
        6. helping a student crate a Laulima account for the Distance Reading Lab
        7. helping a student complete an assignment online at the Distance Reading Lab
        8. filing AIMS students work during semester
        9. providing one-on-one assistance
 

    Knowing special AIMS units and assignments
        1. Vocabulary units with study lists (unit #1 all levels, A & B lists)
        2. EDL Word Clues
        3. Content reading handouts required PRIOR to taking first tests for J7, K7
        4. Tutorial for Analogies (Word Relationships Made Easy) at the Distance Reading Lab
 

    Informing a teacher of student progress
        1. keeping student work in order (updated and filed) during the semester
        2. checking progress via AIMS Online if student is doing some online practices
        3. recognizing the student is bogged down on one unit
        4. establishing a professional relationship with each teacher using the Reading Lab
        5. closing out a section at the end of the semester
 

    English 021 Programs
        1. Ten Steps Computer Programs
                a. Advancing
                b. Improving
                c. Building
        2. Distance Reading Lab's Analogies 2 practices
 

    English 102 Programs
        1. Speed Reader II
        2. Ultimate Speed Reader
        3. Distance Reading Lab Analogies practices
        4. Distance Reading Lab advanced reading practices and study skills activities
 

    Internet Activities
        1. Reading Lab Homepage and its links to resources
              Laulima:
                Distance Reading Lab
                ESL Lab (Building Vocabulary Skills Quizzes)
         2. Writing Lab