Coach adult learners/Activities/Communication and Giving Feedback to others

Communication

 * Visit Delaware Country Community College and read notes on: mutual respect, integrating humour, effective communication and wait times.
 * Complete the on this page Communication Skills Test and find out your score
 * Post the answers to these questions in your Blog
 * 1) Do you agree with the results of your communication test? Why?
 * 2) What can you do to establish rapport with your tutee?
 * 3) Why is it important to know why your student is seeking tutoring?
 * 4) What is the Socratic method? (visit socratic questions for help with this question)
 * 5) There are several different types of probing questions. Name all of them and indicate which type will be used most often in your tutoring session. Why?
 * Visit how to improve your non-verbal communication
 * Write down how you think you could improve your communication skills and post some suggestions in your Peer Tutoring Blog.

Giving Feedback

 * Visit Delaware Country Community College and read notes on How to handle right and wrong answers.
 * 1) Give an example of how you might handle a wrong answer from your tutee? Post this example to your Blog
 * If you have time, find a youtube video of an example of somebody demonstrating excellent or very poor communication skills. Post this video to your Blog (or a link to it if you know how to).

Support Material

 * Delaware Country Community College
 * how to improve your non-verbal communication
 * socratic questions
 * on this page Communication Skills Test