Midterm Review

Short Answer - Quote Analysis

Sondra Perl
Mike Rose
James Moffett

Sample

“The felt sense is always there, within us. It is unifying, and yet, when we bring words to it, it can break apart, shift, unravel, and become something else.” –Perl

EXAMPLE – not passing

“Education thus becomes an act of depositing, in which the students are the depositories and the teacher is the depositor. Instead of communicating, the teacher issues communiqués and makes deposits which the students patiently receive memorize, and repeat.” When Freire states, he was referring to banking. The students are just expecting to make deposits and the teacher just sits there. The teacher speaks and communicates but students have all the knowledge.

IMPROVED

When Freire states, “Education thus becomes an act of depositing, in which the students are the depositories and the teacher is the depositor. Instead of communicating, the teacher issues communiqués and makes deposits which the students patiently receive memorize, and repeat,” he was referring to what is know as the “banking concept”. The students are those who just sit and listen in a classroom and the teacher is viewed as the one who has all the knowledge. The classroom environment is set up in a way so that the teacher is looked at as the figure who speaks and tells the students what they need to know rather than exposing the student to a student centered classroom in which the student’s can share their own knowledge and perspectives. 

A-LEVEL 

Go beyond last example.

First "Live" Tutoring Blog

1. What happened?
2. What did you do?
3. What problems did you encounter?
4. What strategies did you use?
5. How did you know a success?
6. Did you ever feel overwhelmed?
7. What was the most positive part of the experience?
8. What did you learn?
9. What will you do next time?
10. Is there anything you won't do next time?
11. How did you navigate between students?
12. Did you find yourself focusing on one student, even when you had two?

ENG 099 Tutoring Writing

5.45 pm in E-141...

Letter to Bert Assignment

Assignment: Letter to Bert Eisenstadt Evaluating Tutoring at the Writing Center

For this assignment, turn the problem-posing assignment you’ve completed, shared in groups, and presented to our class, into a letter to the Manager of the Writing Center. The Manager, Mr. Eisenstadt, knows about this assignment and is looking forward to reading what you have to say.

The letter should be 2-3 full pages, and should address the 7 steps from the problem-posing exercise you worked with to produce your group presentation. While what you presented in groups were excerpts from the observations of particular individuals in your group, the primary evidence in your letter should be based on your own personal observations. As you did in your problem-posing exercise, name strategies, cite sources for strategies named, and describe observations in detail. It is especially important that whenever you identify a strategy or diagnose a problem, you provide support for your ideas by quoting from the course reading materials, citing all sources, and providing a works cited page at the end of the letter. Mr. Eisenstadt will be much more likely to follow your advice if you seem like you’re basing your assessments on up-to-date tutoring theory. He may also want to read for himself certain sections of a text to which you refer.

 In establishing the voice you will use in this letter, try to use the tutoring skills you have learned this semester. Remember that while it is often important and useful to be critical, it is also important that you be constructive. Remember that tutors can have bad days just like anyone else; don’t make your criticisms personal, but instead try phrasing things as problems that may need for the overall improvement of the center. Think of the Writing Center, like an essay draft, as a work in progress. Imagine your audience, Mr. Eisenstadt, as someone who will continue with his practice of managing the center long after you give him this feedback. There is a future for the Writing Center, and by writing this letter you can become a part of it.

Tutoring: ENG 099 CATW Blogs

The link to the 099 course page is HERE. Take a look.

The assignment the students originally worked from is here. You are responding to Blog 7.

The class posted a "clean copy" of a CATW practice and they were supposed to focus on 1) having a clear claim 2) supporting the claim with 3 or more reasons, with 3) each reason supported by at least one piece of evidence. In other words, the first three categories of the CATW scoring.

Each of you will respond to TWO blogs in preparation for tutoring TWO students next Wednesday (live!).

Aaron

Aaron

Kat

Kat

Evan

Evan

Evan

Danielle

Danielle

Danielle

Maria

Janet

Janet

Shereen

Shereen

Wendy

Wendy

Kadeshia

Kadeshia

Pam

Pam

Davon

Davon

Town Hall event on Pathways CHANGED times...

It is now Thursday at 3.30 in MB10....

What works / what doesn't: the Writing Center

Problem Posing Exercise:
Evaluation of Tutoring at the Writing
Center
ENG 220

Now that we have observed tutoring at the Writing Center,
we will write an evaluation of what we saw in the form of a letter to Bert
Eisenstadt, who manages the Writing
Center. This exercise
will be our preparation for writing that letter.


Part A: What Seems
Good at the Writing
Center

Step 1: Identify
and describe the best tutoring experience you witnessed over the last four
weeks of observing tutoring at the Writing
Center.

Step 2: Which
strategy from our course readings best describes what you witnessed? Explain
the strategy and cite the source. If what you witnessed does not resemble
anything we read about, then describe the tutor’s strategy as best you
can.

Step 3: How did
you know the strategy worked? In other words, what evidence from the tutoring
session makes you sure it worked? What learning outcomes did you observe?



Part B: What Seems Not To Work at the Writing Center

Step 1: Briefly identify and describe a
problem you witnessed during a tutoring session you observed at the Writing Center.

Step 2: Which “tutoring don’t” from our
course readings best describes what you witnessed? Present a quotation
(identify the source and page number) that describes the problem, then continue
the description in your own words, emphasizing what this “tutoring don’t” means
to you in a way that will set the reader
up for step 3.

Step 3: Describe what you saw in detail
when you observed the problem. Describe how it relates to your definition of
the problem in steps 1 & 2.

Step 4: Propose a solution to the problem
based on strategies and “tutoring dos” from the course reading. Describe what
strategy the Writing Center Manager might present in a tutor training session
to remedy this problem.

Spring Break Blog: Observation Three

Over the spring, write about your third observation.

Lab Hour Exercise

ENG 101 Assignment HERE.

Kat
Pam
Kedeshia
Wendy
Aaron
Davon
Maria
Shereen
Janet
Evan
Daneille