What
happens in a Writing Center Visit?
During the writing center visit the tutor makes sure that
the student feels welcome to the writing center from the minute they cross the
door. It’s essential to build a good relationship with the student form the beginning
to have them comfortable to start working with you. During the writing center
visit it’s necessary that the tutor asks questions like what is the paper
about, what are the ideas that the student has, where do the students see their
ideas that they just mentioned on their paper. The writing center works to get
feedbacks, ask questions about ways to improve the students writing.
Visit
the Writing Center at WCC
The visit on the writing center at WCC used to be very
helpful for the students. When the student talks to someone else about their
writing they start to hear their own ideas on their head. Real writing goes through
speech and thinking. Students feel that the writing center is a very helpful
place where they found what they need, where they feel that there are people that
take care of them and are interested on improve their writing skills. The tutor
start a conversation with the student with I think… and convert this opinion on
an idea to guide the students on improving their paper.
The Do’s and Don’t’s of Peer
Tutoring
Learning what to do and
what not to do one a tutoring session:
The tutor should never come in to a session late, act
like he doesn’t care about the student’s needs. Tell the students that the
class is easy that you don’t understand how they are doing badly. Leave them
reading by themselves without giving them advice and end the session without
giving the students any idea that can guide them. Tell them to read by
themselves and find their own answers at home by their own.
What a tutor should always do, be there waiting for the student
to arrive to the session, make sure that they sign the paper after they read it
carefully (contract). Ask the students what they are looking for. Ask the
student what they already know to look for the answer of what they don’t know. At
the end of the session (the last 5-10 minutes) ask the students if they have
any other question if the answer is “YES” and the tutor does not have more time
ask the student if they will like to schedule an appointment and bring in all
the notes and questions they have the next time they meet.
The
Texting Students
The tutor will try to attract the student’s attention out
of their phone and make them focus on the session in process. You (the tutor)
don’t want to be disrespectful but you want the student to use the time
efficiently and get out of the session with good ideas. A “no cell phone” sign in
the writing center will be effective in order to have the student aware that
tutoring session is like a regular class and not having a cell phone with them
for only 45 minutes could be very efficient. It could be helpful that at the beginning
of the session the tutor clarify that for the next 45 minutes which is the long
that the session will be handled, the student turn their cell phone off, put it
in silence or vibrate to fully focus on the session. If you tutoring the class
where the student’s constantly checking the phone it’s very important that the tutor
do not get nervous, mad or sad, they must be respectful all the time and nicely
refer to the student saying that if it’s
not an emergency you will be glad that they put their phone away. Based on the
video the tutor could had said to the student that he will appreciate that she
put the phone away so they could work together on improving the paper.
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