To all new tutors and writing consultants: BEFORE Monday 8/24 @ 7 p.m. (when our first common training starts), go to www.vark-learn.com and take the VARK learning style inventory (called the questionnaire on the website). When taking it, remember that you can check more than one answer. We’ll spend some time processing this information in [...]
To little surprise, I am an ENTJ personality type meaning I am a moderately expressed extravert, moderately expressed intuitive, moderately expressed thinking, and slightly expressed judging personality. First off, I can hardly imagine anyone more extraverted than I and I would greatly enjoy meeting said person. My moderately expressed intuitive and thinking side is probably [...]
100% introverted, 68% intuitive, 39% thinking, 45% judging I took the regular Meyers Briggs test last semester and got the same basic result (INTJ/rationals), and I think this category makes sense. The only suspicious thing is the “100% introverted.” I know I am introverted because I tend to find social activity rather tiring, even when [...]
So my MyType shows me to be not straying too far from that central point on the four scales: I–Introvert 13% (other assessment show me somewhat E–extrovert) (see below) N–iNtuitive 3% “Your secondary mode is iNternal, where you deal with things according to how you feel about them, or how they fit in with your [...]
In my selected studies of Biochemistry, Ashleigh’s approach to tutoring really connects with me. Like Ashleigh, I tend to have the client look at the big picture first. This allows for the client to begin to really think about the material. Then, I probe the student with questions to see where their strengths and weaknesses [...]
Due to the nature of the class I’m tutoring, most of my tutoring sessions tend to be like Ashleigh’s. In a perfect world, we would have been in every class our clients have been in, and know their material front and back. But from time to time a student comes [...]
When it comes to some clients, I’ve had better conversations with brick walls. I’ve seen shoulder shrugs, head nodding, heard mumbling, I don’t know, and I give up. Statistics is not the easiest subject to conceptualize especially at the introductory level without a knowledge base of the statistical jargon that is used: correlation coefficient, coefficient [...]
I was very divided over the various resolutions from the PEP academics session. While there certainly are some good suggestions, there are also many others that show a lack of understanding about higher education and the student’s role within it. I’ll start out with some of the points I agree with, moving on to some [...]
Step 4: Identify the Thought Process I typically had one of two types of clients/sessions. On the one hand, I had students come in with a good grasp of the material who simply wanted someone around to make sure they weren’t making any mistakes. On the other hand, I had several appointments in which the [...]
Julia Humphrey tutored a student today who was an outlier…way at the passive end of the active/passive continuum. She came with the book. But no notes. No printed-out powerpoints. No flash cards (though these two she said were in her room). She answered questions in monosyllables, until about the middle of the 40-minute session, where [...]
Most students come to me with issues regarding APLIA, an online course that lectures and quizzes students on the topics ranging from supply and demand, to government expenditure and taxes. Frankly, these quiz scenarios can be quite confusing and cumbersome. Since students are expected to complete APLIA assignments weekly (along with receive a grade on [...]
Observing Aimee (BIO tutor but also peer mentor for the CHM RCC class) with a repeat client was a real gas–or solid–or liquid? The client was inCREdibly active, writing down those visual diagrams for the Lewis Dot (I had to write that down) Structures chapter, thinking out loud as she wrote, thumbing through the (very [...]
What I have done would do in perfect world in steps 4-8 in the tutor cycle. Step 4: identifying the task Usually when I start a tutoring session I ask my clients what they want to work on today, therefore they have the opportunity to tell me what they are having trouble with in the [...]
MO, 8/25 6:30-9:30 p.m. COMMON TRAINING for new tutors/writing consultants: Follows the first Writing Center meeting. Pizza provided—you bring your VARK scores. (see below) WE, 8/27 5:30-9:30 p.m. 1st TUTOR STAFF MEETING (5:30-6:30) followed by next installment of CRASH TRAINING. Sandwiches with new and veteran tutors before crash training. Bring your tentative tutoring schedules. TH [...]
Attendance: I would give myself a 3, because I am never late, but I needed to reschedule. Attitude: I deserve definitely a 4. I have always a positive attitude and always demonstrate interest in the material. Moreover, I am always emphasizing the importance of the subject and why we all need it. Approachability: Here, I [...]
