Welcome to the STELLAR Tutoring Program
Supportive Technology for the Education of Literacy Learners and Reading (STELLAR) Tutors
Welcome to the STELLAR (Supportive Technology for the Education of Literacy Learners and Reading)Tutoring website. We are focused on the development of teaching skills and strategies in the area of literacy education. We offer a highly interactive environment designed to support the development of effective teaching skills in a tutorial setting. Our philosophy rests on an understanding of effective teaching as responsive to the interests and needs of the learner. We view literacy as a basic skill that creates opportunities for the individual in all aspects of societal and personal life. The literate individual in a literate society is knowledgeable, strategic, motivated, and constantly exploring the emerging forms of literacy. The teacher of literacy recognizes that every learner as having the potential to become fully literate. The path for teaching starts with a valuing what the learner brings to the moment. Instruction builds from the known to the new. With each teaching encounter, the learner extends into new levels of literacy activity. With each teaching encounter, the teacher extends into new levels of teaching ability that can be taken forward into the classroom.
We hope you will find the experiences offered through this website as supportive of your efforts to become an effective teacher. You will soon discover that the interactive nature of this website requires that you contribute to and participate in conversations surrounding effective teaching. If this is your first visit to our website, we invite you to go first to the "about us" link for background and orientation. If you have been to our website before, then you may proceed directly to the tutorial guides and videos.