Re: turf problems

["Prof. Carol F. Heskett" <cheskett@baldwinw.edu>]

To Whom It May Concern:
	All I can say is, you must have much more time in your job to 
communicate on this email system than I do!  Is this a little "in" group 
that is spending much time corresponding with each other rather than 
proofing and editing your own messages?  What type of job do you have?
I would like one just like it. I teach two five-hour classes a day and 
tutor 17 hours a week in the Writing Lab.  I find your ideas stimulating 
but theoretical.  Are you research assistants?  Thanks!  Carol. 
five hour classes a day and tutor 17 
hours a week in the Writing Lab.On Thu, 1 Feb 1996, Sara Kimball wrote:

> Hi, Karen.  One of the reasons I don't want consultants working with 
> their own students in the UWC is that many of them are not all that 
> experienced as teachers.  Many are in fact only in their first or second 
> semester of teaching their own classes.  Someone also mentioned earlier 
> that if consultants are being paid to do one thing during a particular 
> hour then they really shouldn't be doing other things.  In figuring out 
> consultants' workloads I've in effect set aside three hours that can be 
> used as office hours.
> 	We've had occasional problems when consultants haven't observed 
> the policy.  For example, one evening this fall I came into the center 
> and saw one of the consultants, someone who's been a bit of a problem 
> because she seems to be pretty clueless about almost everything, sitting 
> at the receptionist's desk with a student in the chair students sit in 
> when they're talking to the receptionist.  The student and consultant were 
> pretty obviously engaged in an office-hours type conference when another 
> student came in on a drop-in writing center visit.  The consultant had 
> the student stand in front of the desk responding to our registration 
> questions as though she were under interrogation; the poor kid was more 
> or less standing at attention by the way.  This is not the kind of thing 
> I want to see happen.
> Sara Kimball
> 
> On Wed, 31 Jan 1996, Karen L. Morris wrote:
> 
> > While I can see that teachers who tutor their own students could have a 
> > conflict in roles, we have sucessfully done it at Concordia:  
> 
> > Both Lynnell and I are experienced tutors and teachers, and I think we're 
> > both clear on the roles and keeping them separate.  I know that when I 
> > work with one of my own student's papers, I focus on the writing and 
> > don't evaluate.
> > 
> > Karen
> > 
> > karenm@teleport.COM  (ears up, whiskers clean, and still purring) 
> > 
> > 
>