Re: help in developing tutor training seminars

[becky.rickly@umich.edu (Becky Rickly)]

For some ideas, you can check out the sylabi I've used in tutor training
seminars on the web:

        http://www.lsa.umich.edu/ecb/ECB300.html
and
        http://www.lsa.umich.edu/ecb/ECB301.html

These are semester-long courses; we also include, for example, a shorter
WAC unit in these courses.  Students must interview professors/experts in
their field to find out what kind of writing is done, assigned, and valued
in their field, then they create guidelines and samples and present their
findings to the class.  We also do ESL units, which students always say are
*extremely* helpful.  Best of luck!

--Becky

>I am a newly appointed director of the English Center at Auburn
>University.  Although the Department Head and I played around with
>development of our Center last year, the 1997-98 academic year will be my
>first real shot at doing something interesting and worthwhile.
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>The most worthwhile thing that I could think of to start with is to begin
>tutor development seminars.  The tutors in the Center are all graduate
>students; our major constituency is undergraduates enrolled in freshman
>composition, Great Books courses, and advanced writing courses.  I am
>hoping for some advice from those of you who are at similar universities
>and who have already established tutor development seminars.  Can you give
>any clues for on-line help or can you send me any paper (I'll copy it and
>send it back to you)
>
>My snail mail address is:
>
>Isabelle Thompson
>9030 Haley Center
>English Department
>Auburn University, AL 36849
>
>e-mail: thompis@mail.auburn.edu
>
>I am very pleased to be a fledgling member of such a good group of
>people.  ( I've been list lurking for a while.)
>
>Isabelle Thompson
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