Taught By:
Jennifer Juszkiewicz
Director, Writing & Tutoring Center and Writing Proficiency Program; Faculty, English
English Department
Saint Mary's College
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Motivation to Teach Social Action:
We've found that our tutors are key change makers at the College, but they want to be more strategic. In particular, they want to lead the College as it moves into a role as a Hispanic Serving Institution and as a place where those of the LGBTQIA+ community feel safe and can better articulate their ideas and stances. I hope that this course will better enable me to support this goal.
Course Description:
Tutoring is a responsibility and an honor. We work with people trying to articulate new, complex ideas and learn new, complex concepts. Good tutors have the utmost respect and care for learners, and they are willing to step back so these learners find their own way, within the parameters of their assignment. Tutors are a learner’s most generous listener, asking focusing questions and offering helpful resources. We help students develop and refine habits of mind. This is why tutoring is a skill that improves the longer we practice and study it. In this course, we will read further scholarship on tutoring. We will use these and our own experiences as lenses by which to better understand our tutorial sessions. And we will engage regularly in self-reflection to track and preserve our continually growing knowledge.
