Glad all could come and participate in this WC orientation/training gig. I hope you find our time together meaningful and helpful when you sit down with your first tutee next week!
For the next 30 minutes, I would like for you to take the time to peruse our Writing Center blog and to join in on our conversations.
[I have handouts of the reading materials we have used so far. Catch up on them as you can.]
Otherwise, I challenge you to further reflect on today's topics and to create your own post here, summarizing, analyzing, critiquing, and/or simply responding to what you have learned.
Then, be sure to comment on at least one other post from today.
See you tomorrow!
7 comments:
Today has been quite informative and successfully alleviated some of the butterflies I have been feeling. I look forward to getting to know the other tutors and sitting down with my first tutee.
This will be a different experience for me than the tutoring I'm used to. I had to set up a time before hand and usually the session lasted for a hour and a half.
Personally I just would like to dive right in. Planning and training is ok, but time goes by faster when you are trying to explain something to someone.
I'm sure my stomach will be fluttering come next week, too. However, I think with the proper tools in place, we'll be able to accomplish (almost) anything. One step at a time is how I'll be taking it. Here goes!
Sometimes talking about things can make them seem more daunting than they actually are. Some of my new co-workers appaer to be nervous, anxious, or in one case nauseous.
Tutoring is fun. Really. Learning about it helps better prepare and as Sarah said, aleviate butterflies.
On the onther hand, making the abstract paper sculpture was not fun. it helped remind me thet while writing is second nature to me, for some it feels like walking blind through a grocery store looking for a can of peaches.
Tutoring is a very good way to test your patience. By the end of fall quarter those of you who are new here will know for sure how much patience you really have.
Take it from me, there is nothing to be nervous about. Just remember that 95% of the time you definitely know more than the tutees. Be confident in your abilities and don't let anyone walk all over you. The other 5% of the time just do your best, and if neeed be, schedule an appointment with Debra.
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