…..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 [...]
1. Rank these in order of importance in your work as a tutor. Say why and what aspects, specifically, are important in each area. q People skills 2 q Content knowledge 3 q TJ’s systems (TutorTrac, Kronos, TJ’s 24, etc.) 6 q Creativity 4 q Communication w/faculty 5 q Knowledge about learning process 1 [...]
Seeing as the majority of my appointments were in chemistry I focused primarily on chemistry statistics. The chemistry department has seen a raise in appointments, as this is a challenging department, and many feel that the department strives to become more and more challenging. Few of my appointments labeled the exact meeting material, something which [...]
I scored an ESFP on Mytype Personality. “People-oriented and fun-loving, they make things more fun for others by their enjoyment. Living for the moment, they love new experiences. They dislike theory and impersonal analysis. Interested in serving others. Likely to be the center of attention in social situations. Well-developed common sense and practical ability.” Much [...]
The tutoring data from 2005-2006 shows the majority of students coming in for tutoring need help in psychology. I know I most certainly would need help in psychology too! In addition, most assignments are due within a week which I found surprising. My experience as a tutor has been that the majority of clients come [...]
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 [...]
What is interesting? Expected? Strange? What data can be explained by professors teaching the courses? By tutors tutoring them? By students taking them? Examining the data on the poster in TJ’s I see some very interesting facts about how tutoring here at Rollins has grown over the past few years. There are significant increases in [...]
I have seen quite a few things in the statistics that have surprised me. The most surprising is that demand seems to be higher for courses that I would not have expected. I thought that introductory level biology, chemistry, and math would have the greatest demand, but surprisingly few clients signed up for chemistry tutoring. [...]
I took the Keirsey Temperament Sorter, but since I was frustrated with it wanting me to pay to find out anything beyond the fact that I was “rational,” I went and tracked down a site where I could take the Meyers-Briggs and find my actual type. And I turned out to be a Mastermind (INTJ). [...]
1. Rank these in order of importance in your work as a tutor. Say why and what aspects, specifically, are important in each area. I personally believe that knowledge about the learning process is the most vital component of tutoring. Although this was not intuitive when I first started, I realized that sometimes you don’t [...]
Upon taking the Kiersey II, my results indicated that I am an “Idealist.” What this basically says is that I strive for personal growth and understanding of myself and the world around me, paying more attention to the big picture and possibilities rather than the details. But I didn’t need a personality test to tell [...]
I found the 2001-2008 data pretty interesting. The total number of appointments and the number of hours of tutoring have increased significantly from ’01 to ’08, but the number of clients has increased more moderately. Obviously there was a big increase in hours when TJs took over some tutoring from the Bush Science Center. (Math [...]
I looked over the stats board in TJ’s and found that the department I tutor for (CHM) has seen a steady increase in appointments for a long time now. I think that this is probably due to the increased amount of tutors and pressure that the department is putting on students to come in for [...]
Two words sum up my MyType personality test on Facebook, dead on. I am an Introverted Sensing Thinking Judging person with heavy influences in the Introverted and Sensing categories. While there were a few facets of the description that were not completely true about me an overwhelming majority of them were undeniably true (sometimes about [...]
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 [...]
