…..MO 8/24 First day of classes 5:30-6:30 #1 WRITING CENTER STAFF MEETING new and returning! 6:30-7:00 Pizza and drinks w/ new tutors 7:00-9:30 COMMON TRAINING pt. 1 for new tutors & writing consultants: bring your VARK scores. …..WE 8/26 5:30-6:30 #1 TUTOR STAFF MEETING, with new and returning tutors 6:30-7:00 Sandwiches with tutors and new [...]
New tutors are working on this final reflection, to send to me online. But you might be moved to respond to one or more of these questions on this public blog. Please do. Here are the questions. They’re also listed at the end of the Journals! page in the tab at the top of the [...]
ACADEMIC WARNINGS Course #S 3/17/09 BIO 106 7 BIO 120 25 BIO 210 1 BIO 308 3 CHM 220 24 CMC 100 7 CMC 200 2 CMS 170 1 ECO 202 2 ECO 203 5 FRN 102 2 FRN 201 10 HIS 143 14 INB 230 4 MAT 103 9 MAT 110 4 MAT 140 [...]
…also known as dealing with difficult clients…or difficult situations. And assertiveness training… Knowing when a request is beyond the pale, not to be granted, comes with training and experience. What are the goals of the time you’re spending with clients? What activities will help the student reach those goals? The answers are quite commonsensical: better [...]
45 professors have sent 223 academic warnings online to students who are not doing as well as they could be. 145 of these warnings are in courses we officially tutor. Not all professors send these AW’s, especially in the early part of the semester, but students in their courses are presumably getting some sort of [...]
Hey new tutors and others who want a review of how to deal with difficult situations in your sessions… Originally I’d planned an “assertiveness training” session for this week, but I’d like to move it back one week, until Wed. 3/4. That is the last week before spring break, and in the second part of [...]
A month into the semester is often a good time to revisit how we’re communicating, both in the tutoring session and outside it, with student clients, with students in the courses, with professors, with one another, when we write and read, and when we speak and listen. So join us as we do some role-plays [...]
Come one, come all (hehehe) to a staff meeting about tutoring group sessions. If you’ve attended any, led any, are planning to lead any, pls. come to brainstorm about how you can help the participants leave more confident and prepared, and not kill yourself in the process… See you on Wednesday, 2/11, at 5:30 in [...]
New tutors, the first journal assignment is detailed in the Journals tab at the top of the blog. Post it by our staff meeting on Wed. 2/18. Write me w/any questions.
Here’s the staff meeting schedule for the next month: On Wednesdays at 5:30, with makeups on Fridays at 12. 1/28 NEW CHM & BIO TUTORS & MENTORS specialty training 2/4 NEW STATS & MAT TUTORS & MENTORS specialty training TBA NEW foreign lg. & intensive reading/writing TUTORS & MENTORS specialty training (separately) 2/11 GROUP SESSIONS [...]
Welcome to the new tutors for this spring term: Ashley Toth, MAT; Charlie Barresi, THE; Christie Benitez, POL, American; Eric Rodriguez, INB 373; Jesse Stern, PHI, Logic; Jessica Duran, CHM; John Kluwin, ECO, some 200′s; Justin Wright, CHM, Organic; Keith Rands, BIO; Kevin Krughoff, CHM, Organic; Krysten Duncan, LAT; Livia Mandoul, FRN; Omar Rachid, FRN; [...]
WE, 1/14 5:30—6:30 1st TUTOR STAFF MEETING for new and returning tutors. Understand the system for getting credit in the TPJ 107/110 courses. Hear what your predecessors have to say about tutoring. Bring this semester’s schedule so you can set up your tutoring appointment hours in conjunction with others in your department. 6:30—7: Have pizza [...]
I’m changing our blog’s theme, giving it a bit of green and red for the holidays! Hope everyone is having a great break! And I see that it’s somehow snowing inside this green tunnel? WordPress winter snow shows up everywhere, inside or out, I guess.
Agree: · Fund Foreign Language Programs!!! · More classes offered for foreign languages · Sign language as foreign language. · Bring cooking classes to Rollins · Academics need to be taken more seriously. Those with money and influence that go here rarely make the grades but they get to stay here. Rollins should only accept [...]
