Abstract:
Tutoring is as old as an teaching method ever used, and it is still substantially effective as a tool in modern education. Are the problems in ghetto homes so complex that only special teachers are equipped to Make a difference in the educational attitudes and reading accomplishments of students? Are school psychologists needed to heighten the self-assurance and esteem a student fools for himself? Or can significant contributions be sued by other young people who share similar backgrounds and experiences? This tutorial report is the result of a Program featuring Black seventh graders in an inner--city Chicago school as tutors for low-reading student achievers in the second grade of the saw Black.-enrolled school.It is an unfortunate but common realization among teachers that many students have never really met with success in their traditional classroom participation. In searching for ways to alleviate this problem and begin to meet the success needs of more students, the idea of tutoring emerged as a possible partial solution. The value of keeping students in school warrants the necessity for serious exploration and discovery of effective means for providing feelings of success and enthusiasm about learning. Liking to learn and finding it both exciting and profitable could be the meaningful experience that many students have not found in our school classrooms, and one that could rescue them from an otherwise bleak future.