Re: Re[2]:RE: An LD Student Who Needs a "Scribe"

[Elizabeth England-Kennedy <lizek@antioch-college.edu>]

Good point. No, as an employer you cannot ask up fromt. You may want to
institute something like a 5-paragraph writing task part of the interview
(non-take-home). This is something I hadn't thought of before, but have
*just begun to consider :). What you also *can do is ask whether there is
anything that you should know about the tutor's teaching and learning
styles and strategies that would help you in matching the tutor up with
stuents. (Even if they are all writing tutors, everyone has strengths ad
weaknesses -- I have some stuents who are excellent at helping with
organization & ok at grammar, others who are just the opposite, etc.).
This is something I routinely do & it has helped a lot. I also ask if
there are any professors the potential has done especially well with
/poorly with & why. That gives a lot of info too.

I'm glad that the "commonality" point was just a communication glitch. If
you have any other questions or there's anything else I can help with, let
me know. 

Liz EnglandKennedy
Director, Academic Support Center
Antioch College
(937) 767-7331 x6223


On Tue, 5 Oct 1999, William Macauley wrote:

> Liz-
>     Thank you for your thoughtful responses. It is clear that I have a lot to
> learn in this area. I want to assure you that I know the assumption of
> commonality based in colonizing force is inappropriate; I didn't make that
> assumption because I have often bristled at Irish writers (notice my last name)
> being included in British Lit anthologies for much the same reason. There are
> too many variables involved to make a blanket judgement like that.
> 
> Your post provoked other questions, though. This tutor didn't tell me about her
> disabilities for some time after she had been hired. How much can I ask about a
> disability at the outset? Doesn't the ADA or student privacy law preclude my
> initiating this discussion? If I hear about a potential tutor's LD from a source
> that should not have shared that information with me, how can I ask questions
> about the prospective tutor's LD without violating her rights?
> 
> Bill Macauley
>