TutorTalk Training Module

1. TutorTalk Training
Module
Created by Natalie M.

2. What is TutorTalk?
TutorTalk is a blog for the NCVPS Peer Tutoring Center that provides
educational resources on topics such as time management, leadership, and
planning for your future.
TutorTalk is comprised entirely of submissions by tutors. Everything posted is
something created by PTC tutors for the benefit of other peer tutors, teachers,
students, and educational leaders.

3. Assignment 1
Visit the TutorTalk blog to learn more about the blog and see how it looks like.
Read one or more of the recent posts. Comment below in the Discussion
Forum on what you learned and why you chose to read that post.
Please respond to at least 2 other posts.
http://ncvpspeertutor.blogspot.com

4. How can you help?
Submissions- the TutorTalk blog always needs submissions! You can create
submissions to be posted on the TutorTalk blog.
Marketing- you can create graphics or presentations advertising for TutorTalk to
NCVPS students and teachers.
Virtual Buddy- you can offer TutorTalk blog as a resource to your virtual buddies
if they need resources on certain topics.

5. Submissions

6. What are we looking for?
Submissions need to be school-appropriate. There should be appropriate
language use (no swear words).
There is no restriction to the representation- don’t feel limited to just articles!
You can submit videos, animotos, infographics, poems, short-stories,
photography, cartoons, etc.
Submissions can either be about school-related topics (i.e. time management,
success, positivity) or they can be creative topics (i.e. life lessons, poems
about fruit, photography of the world)

7. Topic Examples
SAT/ACT test preparation resources
How to balance school and a job
How to find a college that suits your needs
Best vacation spots in the United States
Must-see landmarks and historical significance
How to reduce stress

8. Assignment 2
Brainstorm a couple ideas on submissions you could create for the TutorTalk
blog. In the discussion forum, explain how the submissions would be
beneficial to the audience and what other topics you could feature.
Please respond to at least 2 other posts.
You may use the TutorTalk blog as a resource:
http://ncvpspeertutor.blogspot.com

9. Tutor Spotlights

10. Tutor Spotlights
Tutor Spotlights are posted on the TutorTalk blog every two weeks. They
celebrate and commemorate exemplary NCVPS peer tutors.
Please fill out this Google Form if you would like to be featured in a Tutor
Spotlight:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1HXXeqiVi7BNqeBFQMApNif7tiLeox_uB4_
ZiBWF7DZE/viewform?usp=send_form.

11. Frequently Asked
Questions

12. Do I Get Service Hours?
YES YOU DO!! :)
If you find yourself waiting for a student on Upswing or for a response back
from your Virtual Buddy, you can help the TutorTalk team with any of the
tasks mentioned on the previous slide.
You can log all of the hours that you spend on behalf of TutorTalk.

13. What if my spelling/grammar is bad?
Don’t worry about spelling and grammar! That is what the co-editors are for! We
are here as a resource for spelling and grammar and will make the proper
corrections after you send us your submission.
Writers and novelists may not always have the best spelling or grammar, but
they always have editors to fix the minor details for them. What’s important
isn’t the spelling or grammar; the main ideas and messages that your writing
conveys is what matters.

14. Who should I contact?
Please notify the TutorTalk co-editors that you have completed this training
module if you want to begin helping the TutorTalk team!
If you have any other questions or concerns, feel free to email the co-editors at
any time!
Natalie M: namonzavifar@student.csdspartans.org
Katie M: katiem120598@gmail.com

15. Thank you for successfully
completing the TutorTalk training
module!