Fall Paid Tutoring Positions

WE are now beginning to hire students to work as paid tutors for the Fall I 2012 semester for our peer tutoring program at the college, Academic Peer Instruction. Those who will be considered must have : a GPA of 3.0 or better, a record of B+ or higher in the course they wish to tutor, a friendly outgoing personality and sufficient free time availability. This is a paid position that requires approximately 10-12 hours a week. If you are interested, please get in touch using the contact information below:

Dr. Joyce Zaritsky (Program Director) or Andi Toce (Assistant Director),
Room E115
Tel: 718 482 5625

Final Exam Review

Format: same as the midterm.

Study:

Hayward on non-native speakers (remember to review the main points of the essay).
Hayward on US writing expectations (ditto above).
Kozol on educational opportunities (ditto above).
Freire on how knowledge is made (ditto).
Freire on the pedagogy of problem-posing (ditto).

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Case Study Assignment

3-5 pages

This assignment asks you to do the following:

Begin your case study by articulating your tutoring philosophy. Introduce yourself to readers, and to the texts you'll be drawing upon, and to your main principles of tutoring. Draw upon course texts and readings by mentioning up front the major ideas you plan to cite, who wrote them, and what texts they're from.

For your statement, consider: what is tutoring? what does it do? why does it matter? Your answers to these questions could help you form your tutoring philosophy. You'll want to ultimately be able to explain the different principles of your philosophy to your readers.

When you consider your principals of tutoring, consider what theories/strategies/texts they come from. That will give you an idea about how to connect your principals to the intellectual foundations of your principals. 

Develop examples of how your tutoring experience has helped you develop this philosophy. Let your work with students demonstrate and illustrate different principles of your philosophy. In each example, give details about your work with students: what were the challenges, and how did you overcome them? How did you approach your work with students? How did you find out what worked and what didn't? Supplement your discussion with regular references to course texts.

The "case study" aspect of this assignments asks you to show your tutoring principals (the foundation of your tutoring philosophy) at work in your interactions with students while tutoring. 

In your conclusion, consider some of the more philosophical discussions we've had about the context of tutoring. What are your reflections upon the role of tutoring in education? What are your broader reflections about the role of education itself?


Sorry for the late post.

Sample LaGuardia Case Study Blogs

http://laguardiapeertutorcasestudies.blogspot.com/2011/06/anas-case-study.html

http://laguardiapeertutorcasestudies.blogspot.com/2011/06/elenis-case-study.html

http://laguardiapeertutorcasestudies.blogspot.com/2011/06/lauras-case-study.html

http://laguardiapeertutorcasestudies.blogspot.com/2011/06/franciscos-case-study.html

Tutoring Confirmed: Tonight E-141

We're going to be dealing with students and the CATW. They just got back results from the hand-written practice test. They need good advice.

Everyone is tutoring tonight. If you cannot make it for any reason, you must email me ahead of time.

Kozol: Points

Kozol - points

(105-6) -- correlation between scores, drop outs, and funding
high expectations - "they" do not provide students with what they need to succeed (whoever does funding) - government? - new york state government...some city, some state. property taxes.

working-class peoples' faults for not owning property
government: redistribution of taxes into education? at fault?

(115) - looking for a home - white and wealthy or black or white and poor - property-owning relation to education in the neighborhood (118) - district 10 ---

(94) - no point putting more money into poor districts - (99) - join the military - why fight? (100) - welfare hospital - no right to complain

(78) - no class distinction - competition - social construction over meaning of competition - usurping ownership and theory of equality - respect writers' ideas regardless of class background - collaborative learning: having an equalized conversation about each topic ---

the education system teaches students that they don't have value

(122) - busing students from a ghetto - south bronx - not prone to learn - it has to be the people that want to care - you have to want it for yourself - different mentalities

big themes: inequality, taxes and income, race/racism

Kozol Quiz

1. After defining some of the key issues raised by examples in the Kozol, relate them to the process of tutoring students.

Tutoring Case Studies

Read the following links and gather information. As you read, consider how the material could alter your approach as a writing tutor. You do not have to complete any tutoring assignments, but you should feel prepared to respond to similar questions on a quiz.


The Tutoring Cycle



Learning Styles



Case Studies



Communication Skills



Difficult Situations



Difficult Scenarios 



Tutoring Guidelines




Thanks to the Department of Physics at Illinois State University for these prompts.

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