What was particularly interesting was to see an average of a 25% to 30% increase in the number of students coming to TJs over the years since the fall of 2005. That shows that we are doing something right and either people are coming back and/or more people are coming in general. This is a [...]
E 78% The Enforcer S 60% T 34% J 76% This really nailed me on the head I think. It was interesting that less than 50 questions could tell so much about me. In terms of how this personality type meshes with [...]
One of the most telling graphics to me is that one that shows the number of students, appointments, and hours. In fall of 2008 there were about four times as many appointments as students. However, only about 550 of the 2,000 students at Rollins chose to utilize TJs as a resource. What this says to [...]
When looking at the tutoring date at TJ’s I noticed some interesting things that I did not seem to notice or know before. The first thing that I noticed was the trend in tutoring hours by departments. When looking at the 2006-2007 and 2007-2008 years that departments that have accumulated the most hours are chemistry, [...]
ESTP One of the primary traits for ESTPs is that they like things to be very straightforward and aren’t into metaphors or complicated rhetoric. This makes a lot of sense to me when I think about specific teachers that I have liked and disliked. It is much easier for me to learn from a teacher [...]
I feel that I connected most with Margaret’s observation. In dealing with papers, I have a hard time providing the student with an evaluation sheet with plenty of details. Most of the time, I go through a paper and make notes in the margins, discuss the flow by drawing arrows, making connections. I wonder how [...]
At the end of February, I observed Ashleigh helping a first-semester transfer student in a Holt course. They had already had an invention session for a paper almost a month earlier– for this course on Islam. Ashleigh had not taken the course, but she is the POL tutor interested in all things Mediterranean and Mid-East, [...]
When I approached Rob Hoffman about observing his Intro to Philosophy tutoring session, he said he would be trying to get his client to be more active (to rehearse) all the material they went over the day before. So from the outset, Rob’s goal was to get the client working with the material. He signalled [...]
Personally, I think that encouragement/supports could be eliminated. That is all part of a tutoring persona that one has to have. But being encouraging as a rule seems like its drifting from the business at hand, which is to improve study skills and elaborate course concepts. All the “personable” categories, such as approachability and the [...]
I think that Attitude and Approachability can be combined because both focus on being positive, friendly and interested in the material. If you display all of these qualities, you’re good attitude makes you approachable. Also, I don’t think we really need the attendance category for our purposes. Processing time could be added to fostering independence. [...]
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 [...]
Or is that macro-ing the micro? I’m only married to an economist…not one myself. John isn’t majoring in economics, but as an IR major, he’s taken 203 (micro/macro) and has helped a bunch of students with that technical intro course. (Also with the other ECO course he’s had, 202, Historical Perspectives.) John had helped this [...]
I think the following categories: fosters independence, encourages/supports, and active learning should be combined into one category. After all, the way that one fosters independence is by encouraging and supporting one’s client and helping him or her engage in active learning. I also think the attendance category is unnecessary. 2. If I were to now [...]
