ld, ad(h)d & tlc

["John Gibney" <JGIBNEY@landmarkcollege.org>]

hi,

i thought that the mention of tutoring ld students would be a good 
place to finally jump into the list. rob barnette writes:


I just had a meeting yesterday with our Accessabilties Coordinator 
aboutdoing a workshop for my staff on working with blind, deaf, 
impaired, and LD students. I also plan to incorporate this issue in my 
tutor training course (once I become more educated).  Do you have a 
similar office on your campus that deals with accessability issues? 
It's a great starting point.

a great starting point indeed!

i'm an english instructor and tutor at a very unique college. 
landmark is the only accredited college for ld and attentionally 
different students on--so far as we know--earth. as you might imagine 
teaching and tutoring are rather differnt here than at most of the 
schools you are working at. instruction begins with assessing the 
point of breakdown in scores of skills in various skill areas. not 
terribly different from teaching anywhere, but, perhaps, more 
specialized to meet the unique needs, and attend to the unique gifts 
of our unique students. most faculty teach classes and also tutor 
individual students. in other words, our entire campus is sort of a 
giant writing/learning center!

but our campus is growning and the needs of our students are 
changing with landmark college itself. one of the most exciting 
changes (and the reason for this post) is that we are building a 
teaching and learning center (tlc) which will function very like many 
of the writing centers you all are part of. though our staff will be 
entirely composed of experienced instructors and professors, there 
are plans to eventually offer credit internships to students.

i'm writing to ask for any suggestions any of you might be kind 
enough to offer to help us answer some of the scores of questions 
which seem to come up every time we meet to argue about what a 
teaching and learning center is and what its going to do. 

a few of questions most recently raised were:

    drop in policy? who can and can't just drop in?
    who can use the writing center's resources?
    how can student (study) groups use the space?
    should we plan to provide word processing stations for students 
        when there are other stations and labs on campus?
    how do we staff the center?
    what should we look for in a director?
    
if possible, please respond to my address...or the list if you think 
that's best. thanks. j    


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