1. Print this page
2. Read the list of Learning Goals
3. Do the Journal writing assignment before reading the chapter
4. Read Tutor Tutor's web pages about the "Tutor's Bag of Tricks"
5. Respond to the Study Questions

Learning Goals

• describe and give examples of these nine leaning facilitators
  1. Games
  2. Images
  3. Quizzes
  4. Keywords
  5. Analogies
  6. Flash Cards
  7. Mnemonics
  8. Examples
  9. Student as Tutor

Journal writing assignment

1. List and describe three learning techniques ("Tricks") that you have found personally helpful in your academic work
2. For each of the techniques on your list, explain how each contributes to helping you learn
3. List and describe one learning technique ("Trick") that you have tried and found personally unhelpful
4. For the unhelpful technique, explain why it did not work for you.
5. How will you discover which learning techniques in the Tutor's Bag of Tricks work best for you and your students?

Study Questions

1. make a "Jeopardy" game with two subject-columns, each with five questions of increasing difficulty. (Two columns is sufficient to give you practice with this technique)
2. make a drawing that illustrates a concept
3. write a 4-Question quiz with one each of these kinds of questions: 1) multiple choice, 2) fill-in, 3) short answer, 4) essay.
4. From a chapter in a text, from lecture notes, or from this chapter of Tutor Tutor, make a list of keywords and for each the place to find its definition
5. Create an analogy for a concept
6. Make three flash cards for vocabulary words or concepts
7. Create a mnemonic for the nine learning techniques in this chapter of Tutor Tutor
8. Create a commonplace example that illustrates a concept
9. You've asked one of your students to demonstrate mastery of a topic by teaching it to you (or your tutoring group). Describe how you will respond when that student stumbles at the task and ultimately cannot do it.