RE: tutor perks...2

[Szmania_Patricia/nhmccd_employee@mail.nhmccd.cc.tx.us]

we have all professional tutors at our comm. college--mostly adjunct 
instructors, and we are seldom able to get together.  Keeping in touch 
and supporting each other has been a real issue.  A couple of semesters 
ago I gave all our tutors mailboxes.  I intended to write a regular 
newsletter to keep us all in touch, but I couldnk't keep up with 
writing it as often as I hoped.  Lately, we keep a kind of round robin 
of notes, articles, quick strategies going--very informal.  Anyone with 
a question, strategy, etc. just hands it to the desk assistant who 
routes it through our mailboxes.  This of course turned out to be much 
better than any newsletter I could have written.  I wish we could set 
our conversation us electronically, but the tutor room we use right now 
does not have a computer.  Our adjuncss also have two paid Sat. morning 
inservices a semester with lots of silly games, good food.  Our current 
favorite game started as an icebreaker: brush with greatness (courtesy 
of David Letterman.)

I like the candy bar idea, Kate.  That fits right in to the spirit of 
the tutor community.

Pat Szmania
North Harris College
Houston
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From: wcenter; kater
To: wcenter
Subject: tutor perks
Date: Wednesday, February 21, 1996 10:07AM


Dear All:

Perhaps you wont believe that I have to ask such a thing, but I'm looking
for ways to say "Thanks" more often to our tutors.  We have a Tutor
Appreciation Meeting at the end of every term, but that's not enough.  Why
does Thank You always come at the end?  My first plan is to buy every tutor
a candy bar "just because."   But in order to make Thanks a more operative
word at our center, I need more ideas.  I need more healthy ideas, not to
mention a few that wouldn't tax my own pocket (our budget doesn't give much
for "Thanks").  The Daytona 500 party at Mount Saint Mary's is a great
idea.  Any others?  I'd love to hear anything from the sublime to the
ridiculous.

--Can't Thank You Enough,



Kate Ranft
The Reading and Writing Center
UW-Milwaukee
Kater@csd.uwm.edu



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