Training is also provided at business and other locations if a company or organization asks for it. Carol Rupe, the director of Wichita Reads, conducts these training sessions. Tutors learn different ways to help a child who is having difficulty with reading. Simple phonics lessons and reading techniques are discussed. Last year the district made a tutoring video to be used to help recruit tutors, but it also serves as a model for what takes place in a tutoring session.
Tutors receive an orientation at individual schools by the tutor coordinator.
The tutor coordinators will be receiving additional training this year to help them better assist tutors in their schools. All tutors will receive information about the in-services for tutor coordinators and will be encouraged to attend. A tutoring handbook is being developed with the assistance of the School of Education at Wichita State University, which will give tutors general information about best practices as well as useful tutoring tips.