problem? what problem?
I’m not sure that there are any problems. I think that in a drop in center students have the best of both worlds. Students have the option of continuing to go back to the same tutor if they feel like they are working well with a certain tutor, and/or they can get many different people to look at their paper. When you get several different people to look at your paper you have the advantage of points of view from several different standpoints. The more fresh perspective that a student can get they tighter their paper will be. Also if the student does not work well with a particular tutor they have the option of never returning to that tutor. From the students point of view they have the perfect set up for the perfect paper, if they choose to take advantage of it.
From the tutor’s point of view it is not too much different. If a student gets attached to a certain tutor it is easy to tell the student that you are going to have another tutor look at their paper so they can get a different opinion. That way a tutor that is struggling with a student does not have to struggle with them all of the time. With each new student that you work with you look at his or her paper with a fresh perspective. Some people may say that it is hard for a tutor to give consistent help to a student that does not get to develop or know any history of the student. I think if constant help is very obviously needed (as in the case of Dwayne) we will talk about that student in our staff meetings or with each other in passing. In other cases when you get a student fresh you have no preconceived ideas about them that could make it harder for you to be truly objective. In my communications class we are learning about how people when given a paper with a girl’s name on it will judge the it more harshly then they will judge the same paper with a boy’s name on it. Tutoring a student for the first time follows sort of the same logic (ok maybe that logic only makes sense in my own mind but now I don’t have the time to change it) when you don’t know anything about them you won’t think “oh crap it looks like I will be explaining commas today again.” You are so caught up with their comma problem that you went through before that you miss other problems or successes that are equally or more important. Am I making sense? I hope so –other wise I will welcome any comments or questions.
From the tutor’s point of view it is not too much different. If a student gets attached to a certain tutor it is easy to tell the student that you are going to have another tutor look at their paper so they can get a different opinion. That way a tutor that is struggling with a student does not have to struggle with them all of the time. With each new student that you work with you look at his or her paper with a fresh perspective. Some people may say that it is hard for a tutor to give consistent help to a student that does not get to develop or know any history of the student. I think if constant help is very obviously needed (as in the case of Dwayne) we will talk about that student in our staff meetings or with each other in passing. In other cases when you get a student fresh you have no preconceived ideas about them that could make it harder for you to be truly objective. In my communications class we are learning about how people when given a paper with a girl’s name on it will judge the it more harshly then they will judge the same paper with a boy’s name on it. Tutoring a student for the first time follows sort of the same logic (ok maybe that logic only makes sense in my own mind but now I don’t have the time to change it) when you don’t know anything about them you won’t think “oh crap it looks like I will be explaining commas today again.” You are so caught up with their comma problem that you went through before that you miss other problems or successes that are equally or more important. Am I making sense? I hope so –other wise I will welcome any comments or questions.
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