Here is the link for the minimalist tutoring video. You can skip through the music + salemanship sections. Some of it is minimalist + some of it is not.
You each made a list of your assumptions about how people learn and communicate and then we put them up on the board and did some thinking about how to keep from getting stuck in our assumptions about how to communicate. In other words, you did some reflecting on how to keep from making incorrect assumptions about how others learn, think and communicate. My longterm goal as I planned this class was to have you work in groups to develop a checklist for conducting tutoring sessions; this checklist would set up guidelnes and strategies (like the checklist for working with developmental writers on page 92 in the reading)to help you: 1) keep from projecting your learning style onto your students; 2) be aware of and keep from falling into stereotypes for the different kinds of learners we put on the board; 3) base your tutoring in interactive/adaptive/personalized patterns for communication that respond to the individual needs of individual learners.
In class we got through identifying our own learning style, listing different identity groups and some of the stereotypes regarding how they learn, and we came to two realizations: 1) sometimes group identity/membership can provide a clue to those patterns; and 2) it is truly an individual's experience that determines his/her learning style/patterns for communication - so while noting or hypothesizing group identities - tutors always need to respond to students as individuals.
For Blog 8: develop a checklist/guidelines to help you remain aware of and be responsive to the conflict at the center of these two realizations. Your list should provide a series of suggestions for what(and how) you need to notice about your students' learning & writing, as well as some general practices for conducting sessions that will help your find out what you need to know and respond to it.
In class on Wednesday you are going to conduct minimalist tutoring sessions + take notes on those sessions. In response to a unanimous request from the class, you will be tutoring you revised North essays - which will then be due on Monday, October 13. Bring your drafts to class for your sessions.
We will also (briefly) discuss Shamoon and Burns (225 in the Longman text). See you Wednesday.
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