1. Tutor Holiday Gathering
Tuesday, December 6
1:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Room: 230C
*Presented by Irina Cline, Alondra Montoya and
Eric Cuevas

2. 24 tutors and 80 students
New Student Aides: Alondra Montoya and Eric Cuevas
4 Groups: 3 ESL and 1 Reading group
Looking for a Math and a GED group tutor
Project CARE’s 30 anniversary
New instructional materials in the office

3. Life skills - skills you need to make the most out of life.
Associated with managing and living a better quality of
life
No definitive list of life skills. Relevance depends on your
life circumstances, culture, beliefs, age, or geographic
location.
Examples: sending a letter, applying for a library card,
time management, conflict resolution

4. Group Discussion:
What Life Skills do you teach during your tutoring
sessions?

5. Searching for jobs
Writing a resume/cover letter
Evaluating one’s professional experience
Interview practice
Applying for jobs

6. Listening
Nonverbal communication: body language, eye contact,
hand gestures, and tone
Clarity and concision: convey your message in as few
words as possible
Friendliness
Confidence
Empathy: respect for other points of view
Open-Mindedness
Feedback

7. 3 teams
Choose speakers and drawers
Speakers describe the picture of the drawers without
naming the object
The group with the most accurate picture wins

8. • Listening to each other's ideas
• Questioning
• Persuading
• Respecting
• Helping
• Sharing
• Participating

9. 3 teams
Word
Teams answer the questions (comparatives) on a
worksheet
The team to complete all of the questions correctly wins.

10. House

11. Whale

12. Bus

13. Pillow

14. Words that cover more than one field of study.
Academic and professional sphere
 Tier 2 High frequency words used by mature language
users across several content areas (examples: obvious,
complex, establish, and verify)

15. 3 teams
Pictures
Each team writes as many adjectives to describe the words
and corresponding pictures
The team that has the most accurate adjectives wins a
point.