Tutor Talk provides a space for tutors to focus on tutoring pedagogy, practices, and strategies across appointment modalities. Facilitated by Student Managers, Tutor Talk gathers small groups of tutors together to build rapport and learn from each other, establishing a collaborative and supportive learning community where tutors share practical take-aways for appointments.
During each Tutor Talk session, you will participate in discussions that help you reflect on the work you do in the Writing Center, including the ways you provide feedback to writers. In addition to reflecting on your practices, you will collaborate with other tutors to develop new strategies you can apply to your work with writers.
📋 Tutor Talk Logistics
- All tutors are required to attend two Tutor Talk sessions each quarter.
- The sessions are scheduled during your regularly scheduled Writing Center shifts, and you are blocked off in WCOnline to attend.
- If your work schedule does not fully overlap with any of the session times, the PD team will be in touch with you to gather your availability and then schedule you to attend Tutor Talk accordingly. To balance your work hours and the Writing Center budget, we balance out any additional time added to your schedule for Tutor Talk by removing the same amount of time from elsewhere in your schedule in the same week and notify you of the schedule change.