Youth Development Resources

The Tutor Newsletter

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Summary:

The Tutor Newsletter is produced by the LEARNS partnership, a collaboration between Northwest Regional Educational Library (NWREL) and the Bank Street College of Education.

Scroll down NWREL’s home page to find bi-annual newsletters beginning in 1998 and running through the present.  Many of the newsletters provide practical information geared toward helping tutors to help struggling students more effectively.  The newsletters address a wide range of topics, including:

• “Now I get it!”:  Homework Help Strategies for Volunteers
• Savvy Traveling:  Volunteers Engaging with School Culture
• Reading for Meaning:  Tutoring Elementary Students to Enhance Understanding
• The Power of Story Retelling
• Room for One More?  Strategies for Small-Group Tutoring
• Family Literacy:  Tapping into the Power of Family

Other newsletters are helpful to program directors, including topics such as:

• Real Answers for Established Education Programs
• Back to School:  Getting New Programs Started and Improving Existing Programs
• Resources:  Using National, Regional, and Local Resources to Strengthen Your Program
• Partnerships:  Building Partnerships With Teachers and Parents

Each newsletter contains not only information about the types of skills struggling students need to develop, but also specific information about how to assist them to develop those skills.  The Tutor provides illustrations regarding how the information contained in it may be effectively applied, often by providing examples of exchanges between fictional tutors and tutees.  Similarly, newsletters addressing program directors provide equally practical information presented in a way that makes its implementation easier.

Why does FASTEN recommend this resource?

Tutoring programs encounter many challenges as they work to help children who are struggling in school.  The Tutor Newsletter provides practical advice and information that will enhance a tutoring program’s ability to not only successfully assist these students to improve their academic performance, but to be a blessing in their lives, increasing their sense of self worth and hope for the future.

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EDTEC, Inc.

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Summary:

EDTEC, Inc. offers many resources in the areas of entrepreneurship training and management consulting services. Its signature product -- the New Youth Entrepreneur -- includes 12 modules devoted to inculcating entrepreneurial skills in teens. The curriculum, available in both English and Spanish, offers a simple yet comprehensive course in the basics of starting a business. Lessons cover such topics as:

• how to spot and take advantage of business opportunities;
• how to market a business;
• how to secure start-up funds;
• the basics of bookkeeping, and
• business ethics.

Now EDTEC also publishes the New Youth Entrepreneur Interactive -- an interactive, animated version of the 12 modules in a colorful, easy-to-use presentation.  This version is ideal in many respects:  students can pace themselves and work from their computers, instructors have access to online assistance and updates, and the cost-effectiveness is greatly enhanced.

EDTEC also provides hands-on consulting and training to organizations operating entrepreneurship programs.

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