RE: tutoring scenarios--help

[Laura Brandon <lbrandon@agnesscott.edu>]

Here are several scenarios that we used in a multidisciplinary tutor
training session last August.  Hope they are helpful!

1. The student thinks that the tutor should be doing most of the work (she
only came to the tutor because her professor recommended it).
2. The first-year student is extremely emotional during the session, and the
tutor suspects that she may be under too much stress/homesick.
3. The student contradicts everything that the tutor says about her work.
Her negative attitude is preventing the two from working together.
4. The student wants extra credit for going to the tutor.  Her work hasn't
improved, but she has been getting tutored on a regular basis.  She asks the
tutor to talk to the professor about it.
5. The RTC (Return to College student - ie non-traditional age) seems to
resent the tutor's help.  She makes offhand comments throughout the session.
6. The student doesn't seem to understand what the tutor is trying to
explain.  The tutor has already tried many different ways to explain the
material, but the student is completely lost. 
7. The student continuously turns the focus of the tutoring session to talk
about the professor and the other students in the class.



Laura Brandon
Agnes Scott College



-----Original Message-----
From: John M Duffy
To: wcenter@ttacs6.ttu.edu
Sent: 9/30/98 1:15 PM
Subject: RE: tutoring scenarios--help

Let me add my name to this list as well. I would also be interested in
hearing about any tutor training ideas that WC folks might wish to
share.

Many thanks!

John Duffy

>     I too am involved with training tutors.  I would be interested in
>seeing any such scenarios that others are using.  If they're not too
long,
>could you post them to the list, or send them to me off list?
>                    Marilyn Brown
>                    English Department, Box 504
>                    South Dakota State University
>                    Brookings, SD 57007
>                    brownma@ur. sdstate.edu
> ----------
>From: Michael Reder
>To: wcenter
>Subject: tutoring scenarios--help
>Date: Wednesday, September 30, 1998 10:56AM
>
>I was recently appointed director of the Writing Center at Connecticut
>College and I am currently involved in training peer tutors.  I used to
>have some tutoring role playing scenarios but I seem to have misplaced
>them.  Rather than start to write them from scratch, does anyone on the
>list have some role playing exercises that they could share with me?
>
>Rather than clog up the list, you could mail them directly to
>reder@conncoll.edu.   One further question, how do I join the list
>serve?
>
>Thank you for your help.
>
>Best,
>
>Michael Reder
>
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