Resources for Tutors

Subject area links, as well as links to great study skills and tutor training websites.

How can you help students in developmental courses? (video)

How can you help students stay at De Anza? (video)

Ideas for Group Tutors

Letters to Future Tutors from Past Tutors

Math

• Khan Academy: 700+ videos on YouTube covering everything from basic arithmetic and algebra to differential equations, physics, and finance
• Free commercial quality mathematics software and resources from Arizona State University
• Math handouts, videos and tools from Tallahassee Community College
• Franklin University Podcasts and other math support
• Tips for math tutors
• Links for Mathematics
• Conquering Math Anxiety
• AlgebraOnline
• Ask Dr. Math
• Free Online Math Tutor (Henry Fliegler)
• Math Resources by Subject
• Vancouver Math Tutor resources for students of all ages, parents, and aspiring tutors.
• Math Academy
• Math Study Skills
• Printable Math Handouts (Antelope Valley College)
• PurpleMath Guidelines for math homework
• Professor Freedman's Math Help
• Susan Dean's Web site(De Anza math instructor)
• WikiTutor Math Resources

Sciences

• General Chemistry Concepts
• Links for Studying Science
• Links for Studying Physics
• Links for Studying Chemistry
• ChemistryCoach.com
• Links for Studying Biology
• ILN Physics
• WikiTutor Science Resources

Writing and Grammar

• Diana's Links for Writing Tutors
• Purdue Online Writing Lab
• Paradigm Online Writing Assistant (helpthrough entire writing process)
• Webster Guide Grammar and Writing (Explanantions, quizzes, presentations on ALL aspects of writing and grammar.)
• The Allyn & Bacon Guide to Writing-- Student Resources

English as a Second Language

• Links for International and ESL students
• Frizzy University Network
• Grammar Safari
• English ZoneGrammar, spelling, vocabulary, reading, idioms and more.
• ESL BlueDiagnostic quizzes and resources on all aspects of grammar
• Virtual Language Centre Diagnostic quizzes and resources. Includes a "sentence concordancer" to find real examples of how phrases and words are used in writing...great for building vocabulary!

Accounting

• Ideas for Teaching Accounting
• How to Study Accounting
• Study Live Accounting

Languages

• Vocabulixfree vocabulary and conjugation website
• Language Dictionaries
• Study Spanish
• Spanish Language Learning Resources
• Foreign Language Teaching Forum
• French Grammar Tutorial

Learning Theories and Learning Styles

• Index of learning Styles Questionaire
• The Learning Curve
• Links for Learning Syles
• Learning Styles Questionnaire from NC State
• DVC Learning Styles and Strategies Survey and Explanation
• Applying Learning Styles to Tutoring (video)
• Keirsey Temperment Sorter
• Motivating Students (Vanderbilt)
• Motivation (Cutting Edge)

Study Skills

• Online Free videos on various study skills from McMaster Univesity
• Online study skills workshops from Virginia Tech
• Links to a Better Education
• Study Skills Help
• Learning Skills Handouts
• Study Web
• Study Guides and Strategies(Handouts in 11 languages!)
• Student CounselingVirtual Pamphlets (U. of Chicago)

Tutor Training

• TutorZone blog for college tutors
• WikiTutor tutor training resources
• Tutor Training: Professional Development Online from the University of Melbourne and University of Sydney. Very extensive, with video clips.
• Tutor Tutor
• TASC Online Tutor Training
• Video Clips of Productive Tutoring Sessions(North Carolina State University)
• Training for Tough Tutorials (Multimedia training for writing tutors-U. of Richmond)
• Handbook for Peer Tutors of Writing (Penn State)
• Online Tutor Training (American River College)
• Owensborow Community College Online Tutor Training --very extensive, with test
• Peer Centered: An Online Forum for Writing Tutors (American River College)
• Writing Lab Newsletter, with searchable article for peer tutors of writing
• International Writing Center Association's links for peer tutors of writing

Learning Differences and Disabilities

• De Anza College Special Education
• National Center for Learning Disabilities
• Higher Education and Disabilities
• U. of Kansas Individual Accommodations Model
• Virgina Tech Handbook for Students with ADD
• MIsunderstood Minds (PBS site with simulations)

Other Tutorial Centers, Associations, and Online Tutoring

• De Anza College Online Writing Assistance Center
• Web sites of Other Tutorial Centers
• Learning Support Centers in Higher Education"
• National Writing Centers Association
• Tutoring on the Internet
• Online Writing Labs
• Virtual Classroom -- online tutoring in statistics for De Anza students
• Smarthinking -- online tutoring in Math, English, ESL, Accounting and Economics