RE: tutor perks...2

[cleveren@garnet.acns.fsu.edu (Carrie Leverenz)]

Although my tutors are all graduate students and see each other in places
outside of the writing center, I think it is important to create a sense of
"belonging" in the writing center--for students and teachers. So when I
started directing the center a year and a half ago, I turned a set of
bookshelves into mailboxes and moved the coffee maker and refrigerator next
to the mailboxes.  This year, I bought a white board which we hung next to
the tutors' mailboxes.  Our original intention was to be able to write
messages that everyone needed to see--e.g.  Dennis has called in sick
today--but it's turned into a place where tutors announce birthdays, draw
cartoons, etc.  As for saying "thanks," I like the party idea, too, but how
do you manage to schedule one while the semester is steamrolling along?

>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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