Take the information you learn in this workshop to your sessions with your tutees to help increase their test taking confidence! Students who find it difficult to take tests may ask you for advice on how to be a successful test taker, but how do you assist them? This workshop will focus on test taking strategies. Test anxiety can be debilitating for students of all grade and knowledge levels. Presented by Hannah Shelton-Hauck, Harold Walehwa, & Claire Peters, Academic Support & Retention Tackling Test-Taking with Effective Strategies This will be an interactive presentation that is discussion focused. This will include learning to recognize the signs and symptoms of academic anxiety, coping strategies to help manage these symptoms and identifying referral sources to receive further support if needed. This workshop will help students in learning ways to manage their own academic anxiety and how to provide support to others experiencing academic anxiety. Presented by Heidi Schmitt, University Counseling Service It will include general information on effective methods for breaking down language barriers and working with these students. This workshop will provide tutors with information on working with students to whom English is a second language. We will also demonstrate and practice techniques to help you help students learn how to work through complex assignments and understand difficult material. Sara Nasrollahian Mojarad, Office of Teaching, Learning & TechnologyĪre you nervous about how to help students solve problems? Do you wish you knew what questions to ask to help them get “unstuck” or to feel more confident? This session will give you specific strategies you can use in tutoring sessions to ask powerful questions to get students to think more critically and solve problems for themselves.

It will include general information on the various disability categories effects that the disabilities may have on students and strategies for tutoring students with the various disabilities.Ĭreating Critical Thinkers: How Tutors Can Help Students Learn How to Solve Problems

This workshop will provide tutors with information on students with disabilities. Presented by Abbie Beadle, Student Disability Services

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