Tutoring Matters

Tiffani Chin is the Executive Director of EdBoost, a nonprofit that includes a learning center serving K-12 students in Los Angeles. She is the author of School Sense: How to Help Your Child Succeed in Elementary School, and she has been tutoring for twenty years.Jerome Rabow, the recipient of numerous distinguished teaching awards, is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles, and a Lecturer at California State University, Northridge. He is the author of Voices of Pain and Voices of Hope: Students Speak about Racism. Rabow is the Director and Co-founder of CCODE (Center for the Celebration of Diversity Education).Jeimee Estradais a K­-12 Education Policy Analyst with the California Legislative Analyst’s Office and a Master of Public Policy graduate from the University of Southern California.

"For the past ten years, my students repeatedly cited Tutoring Matters-in their journals, papers, and course evaluations-as their single most helpful tutoring resource. With the timely addition of so many field-tested and practical tips, this second edition will certainly prove itself to be even more valuable." -Joseph A. Galura, University of Michigan

• Preface to the Second Edition and Acknowledgments Preface to the First Edition and Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Attitudes, Anxieties, and Expectations 2. Building Relationships 3. Teaching Techniques 4. Race, Gender, Class, and Background Differences 5. Other Adults: Parents, Teachers, and Administrators 6. Good-byes: Ending the Tutoring Relationship Twenty-Five Final Pointers for Tutors To the Reader Bibliography