New tutors, spring ‘09 & & returnees

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; Riley Schlub, BIO, and CHM, Organic; Ryan Maleknia, CHM,Organic; Ryan Webb, ECO, some 200’s; Sam Barns, CMC; Sarah Ledbetter, JPN; Trevor O’Bryan, ECO 221; Whitney Wallingford, CMC

…and welcome back to:

Allison Wallrapp, ARH and now SPN (returning from northern Spain); Jess Drew, LACA, (returning from Argentina); Jordan Rice, PSY (and the front desk) (returning from southern Spain); and Mengdi Yao, BIO, CHM & PHY, (from the lab courses in Bush)

 

Crash Training Schedule spring ‘09

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 with all, including the new writing consultants, as they join us in the first crash training session (called common training). Bring your VARK scores.

7—9:30: Common training with consultants and tutors: communication skills and learning styles

TH 1/15 or TU 1/20, 20-30 mins. between 12:30-2: do the TJ’s checklist (TutorTrac, people, places, things you need to know about on the 2nd floor of Mills.

WE, 1/21 5:30—6:30

2nd TUTOR STAFF MEETING; understand the new client evaluation form, seeing how it and the older ones reflect the goals of tutoring.

6:30—9:30 p.m. Have sandwiches with some of the veteran tutors before the second session of training. Some of them will be joining us.

Foreign language, Quantitative and Writing intensive specialty training: Reading assignments will be given, and further short sessions will be scheduled w/in the next two weeks to discuss and practice specific techniques for tutoring in these areas.

Also on Wednesday,  January 21st

TUTORING AND WRITING CONSULTING OPEN FOR BUSINESS

 

New Tutor Crash Training Schedule (TPJ107)

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. 1^st 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 8/28 or TU 9/2, 20-30 mins. between 12:30-2: do the TJ’s checklist (TutorTrac, people, places, things)

WE, 9/3: 2^nd TUTOR STAFF MEETING @ 5:30; Tutoring and writing consulting open for business

6:30-9 p.m.: Foreign language tutor training

SA, 9/6 10 a.m.-12 noon: Quantitative tutor training

SA, 9/6 12 noon-2:30: Writing intensive tutors—training with the Writing Center (they continue until 6)

BEFORE Monday 8/25 @ 5:30, 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. This only takes about 10 minutes, but will give you some initial insight into your learning style. We’ll spend some time processing this information in common training.

 

Journal 3 for new tutors

Look in the journals tab for the full journal prompt as this one disappears down the page. Or click on the journal 3 tag…to see this and everyone elses.The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (think Clint Eastwood, and Enrico Morricone’s musical score).  As we started to do in our staff meeting on 3/26, reflect on what makes a tutoring session good? bad? ugly (really frustrating…)? Things to think about when writing your post:a. your student clients:

 

The fall tutor lineup. You in? Who else?

Recruiting is starting…and besides me and your professors asking students to tutor, you all can talk it up with your classmates. You guys know what being up here really involves. Be thinking of which of your fellow students would be good up here. Who would appreciate more opportunities to learn? …more insight into both the course content and the learning process that you all have developed while working at TJ’s?

 

Why I Decided to Become a Tutor?

In addition to being asked by Susie and recommended by my professors, I decided to tutor because of my passion for sociology (the subject that i tutor in). In our attempt to be “global citizens,” I believe that a comprehensive understanding of society (especially from a structural perspective) is vital. In turn, by tutoring major’s and especially non-majors, who may never have contact with this academic discipline again, I feel that it is important for these students to become intimate with the course material, and more importantly, the “sociological perspective”. Furthermore, it has also provided me with the opportunity to gain a useful skill, tutoring, which will be applicable in many other arenas (i.e., training other co-workers). I am both honored and thankful for this opportunity, which has been a great experience thus far.

 

Mtg. 2/27 ALL; meantime, work on projects & journal #2 new tutors

Foreign language tutors met last week, 2/13. Quantitative and science tutors met two weeks before that. Next Wednesday, 2/27, we will ALL meet together.

In the meantime, please attend to a couple things: your projects (everyone enrolled in TPJ110) and your second journal (of four) (new tutors in TPJ 107).