Summer Testing
The short summer semester means that finals come around faster, and there is less time to work on term papers. The tutor has to help a lot of people in a very short time. It’s a lot of Pressure.
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Confidentiality
What if you have several groups of students, and each one needs their privacy guarded? To the point that each group is not supposed to know that the other groups are students at all? And then you mix up the class list, and include the wrong person in a group e-mail. Can a breach of… Read More Confidentiality
Flower Power
A perennial favorite. per·en·ni·al adjective: perennial lasting or existing for a long or apparently infinite time; enduring or continually recurring. William Wordsworth’s poem about golden daffodils show up almost every semester. Good thing I like the flowers 😉 For your reading pleasure: I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud By William Wordsworth I wandered lonely… Read More Flower Power
Tutoring Colleagues
I am always surprised when no one shows up on Xmas Day, since School has such a multicultural student body – Muslims and Buddhists and atheists and whatnot. Today I tutored my colleague! What fun. Working on monthly time sheets – Dec 25 usually happens very close to the end of the month – and… Read More Tutoring Colleagues
Hi, Angry Student, Calm Down!
Telling an angry or upset person to keep calm has worked approximately zero percent of the time. A line that actually works for me is, “I need you to speak clearly long enough to let me know what’s going on.” It’s amazing how many people are willing to let go of their rage if they… Read More Hi, Angry Student, Calm Down!
The Dreaded First Draft
Writing is hard: True fact. You have to organize your thoughts more clearly than if you were just talking, because when you talk you can backtrack and fill in details that you left out. Writing has to be more organized than that. The first draft is allowed to be a mess! Student tried to get… Read More The Dreaded First Draft
Tutor vs Therapist’s English
The Speech Language Pathologist (SLP) in training wrote a very interesting paper, so much fun to read. But the good old comma and assorted unclear phrases meant that a Writing Consultant will always a bit of Speech & Language to analyze The role of the SPL is to ensure something. Who is enacting the prevention… Read More Tutor vs Therapist’s English
