Hello all, I've finally gotten around to compiling everyone's responses about tutor training materials. Hope this helps. 1. Norval Bard ([log in to unmask]) of North Central College adapted a handbook for tutors that has some great info on the mission and purpose of the tutors, what good tutoring is and is not, study tips to share with language students, basic tutoring skills, learning styles, how to deal with student complaints, tutor contract, and more. This was a real find and I was able to quickly adapt it to meet our needs. Thank you, Norval! 2. Brenda J. Bertrand ([log in to unmask]) of Wittenberg University writes, "We are a level 2 (advanced) tutoring facility, accredited with the CRLA (College Reading and Learning Association). I teach a tutor training course every fall. We use the University of North Carolina's videos on tutor training to meet accreditation standards." Thanks to Brenda for being willing to share her syllabus. I will be looking more closely at her syllabus as I work to develop our own 8-week course. Thanks to Tina Oestreich for the lead. 3. Ted Peebles ([log in to unmask]) shared with me some textbook-specific training materials for training Assistant Teachers at the University of Richmond. He writes, "Our stuff is really textbook specific (in Spanish we use _Dicho y Hecho_, _Puentes_ and _Imagina_) and is loosely based on the Rassias (Dartmouth) method of call and respond oral substitution drills." Thanks to Sharon Scinicariello for the lead. 4. Dennie Hoopingarner ([log in to unmask]) of CLEAR writes that "The Center for Language Education And Research (CLEAR) at Michigan State University has created guides for language tutors who have little or no training in language teaching. The guides are freely downloadable in PDF format from our website. Although the guides are specified for a particular language, the principles of language teaching can be applied to any language. The language-specific areas of the guides are related to the specific examples that target language points of the target language." Link to the African guide: http://clear.msu.edu/clear/store/moreinfo.php?product_ID=10 I also enjoyed watching bits and pieces of the training video: http://clear.msu.edu/clear/video/african/ 5. Daryl L. Beres ([log in to unmask]) from Mont Holyoke College sent the following about a handbook for tutor trainers: "You should take a look at the College Reading and Learning Association website (http://www.crla.net/). Their Tutor Training handbook, while unfortunately not free or downloadable--you have to order through the mail--has a lot of really useful information. It is a guide for tutor trainers, such as ourselves (as opposed to a guide for the tutors), and it was written for tutoring in any subject area, but it contains a lot of info that is applicable to languages." Note: I think our Writing Center is already accredited with CRLA, so I am hoping that somehow we can take advantage of that accreditation experience. I'm sure Brenda Bertrand (Item 2) would have much to share about the accreditation process. I believe I have included everyone's responses. Thanks to all for your suggestions and information. Allison -- Allison L. Weiss Language & Technology Coordinator Hispanic Studies Department Illinois Wesleyan University Buck Memorial Library, Rm. 009 Ph: 309-556-3544 *********************************************** LLTI is a service of IALLT, the International Association for Language Learning (http://iallt.org/), and The Consortium for Language Teaching and Learning (http://www.languageconsortium.org/). Join IALLT at http://iallt.org. Subscribe, unsubscribe, search the archives at http://listserv.dartmouth.edu/scripts/wa.exe?A0=LLTI Otmar Foelsche, LLTI-Editor ([log in to unmask]) ***********************************************