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Re: "Productivity Models" and Writing Center work
Anne,
Thanks for your great response....you have pretty much described
how we work too...individual attention...reports and all...likewise
you have very well described the math tutorials. I wish to work with
my counterpart...but the problem is, is that my "counterpart" isn't
really my counterpart...he is in charge of distributing the funds we
get and everytime I talk to him he brings up the productivity issues.
0--clint
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Date forwarded: Tue, 8 Sep 98 8:48:50 MST
Date sent: Tue, 08 Sep 1998 08:50:17 -0700
From: anne mullin <mullanne@isu.edu>
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Subject: Re: "Productivity Models" and Writing Center work
> Clinton R. Gardner wrote:
> >
> >>
> > What I am writing to ask, is what kind of "productivity" model
> > should a writing center be accountable to....or, for that matter, how do
> > we measure "productivity" in our centers? and what the heck can I do to
> > bring up tutor morale in the face of this menacing issue?
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> Clint -- math labs and writing centers should not be using the same
> "productivity model" -- here at ISU our math lab folks are right next
> door, and they do a drop-in service with, usually, 2 or 3 tutors on per
> shift and probably 10 - 12 students on average. The tutors hop around the
> tables,get someone started on one problem, go to the next person, etc.,
> they check on the steps and each step takes only a few minutes. My math
> lab counterpart fully understands that this is not what the writing tutors
> do -- we have always been able to explain our different kinds of tutoring
> and training AND COUNTING/NUMBERS SERVED when we do our different reports.
> The Writing Lab keeps individual files on the students we see, almost all
> by appointment, and the files have our report sheets which say what was
> worked on/how in the session. That shows the "productivity" and the
> individual attention given. The math lab does not do appointments, keeps
> no records except the sign-in sheet. Our Academic Skills Center Director
> and the Dean of Student Services are fully aware that we are using
> different strokes -- if need be, of course, one could draw on writing
> pedagogy, studies on revision (Perl's shows the kind of intensive time
> students spend on just a few sentences), studies on peer response and the
> time that takes, e tc. Can you and your math/science counterpart join
> forces to promote your two very different services and their different
> kinds of productivity?
>
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Clinton Gardner (cgardner@englab.slcc.edu)
Writing Center Instructional Support Coordinator
Salt Lake Community College
Have you visited the SLCC Online Writing Center today?
http://www.slcc.edu/wc/
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