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 on the "Prompt-Response Method"
5. Respond to the Study Questions
6. Do the Prompt-Response Quiz

Learning Goals

1. describe the Prompt-Response Method
2. compare and contrast the common prompts and common responses
3. list advantages and disadvantages of the Prompt-Response Method
4. define and give examples of leading questions
5. define and give examples of the fill-in method

Journal writing assignment

1. Imagine you are in a tutoring session, and your student asks you to explain something in the textbook that he finds confusing. How would you respond to his request?
2. Imagine you are about to start the third tutoring session with a student, who, after saying hi, begins to tell you about her new job and how it's ruining her social life and robbing her of time for school work. You can see that she is very upset, especially about her supervisor's management style, which she describes in great detail. You have planned the tutoring session. Would you try to implement your plan or would you try to help the student with her job-related distress? Explain your answer.

Study Questions

1. Define and give an example of a tutor's prompt
2. Define and give an example of a student's response
3. Define and give an example of a tutor using a leading question
4. Define and give an example of a tutor using the fill in technique
5. Write a dialogue between a tutor and a student that follows this pattern:
   • Student prompts with a question
   • Tutor responds with a prompt
6. Write a dialogue between a tutor and a student that illustrates the tutor using a prompt to redirect a student's attention from complaining about a professor to the work of tutoring (Hint: check out the "diversion from work" example on the "Example of the P-R Method")
7. Give examples of these prompts using material from your tutoring subject area(s)
   • Ask
   • Command
   • Challenge
   • Add
8. What does it mean that the Prompt-Response Method makes the student an active learner?
9. How could a tutor using the Prompt-Response Method inadvertently undermine a student's self-esteem? How could this be avoided?
10. A tutor is working with a student in one of your subject area(s) and asks the student questions to facilitate the tutoring. Give an example of the tutor using each of these kinds of questions
    • a yes/no question
    • an either/or question
    • how/what/why leading question