2017 Tutor Summit

This workshop will highlight some of the action items for good tutoring and mentoring as complementary activities for enhancing academic and social success gleaned from Dr. Rowley's own teaching, research, and the burgeoning scholarly literature in the social sciences on mentoring. Special emphasis will be given to the implications for students from underrepresented racial, ethnic, and socio-economic backgrounds.

In this workshop, we will be using both hypothetical scenarios as well as tutors' own experiences to talk about different strategies to handle difficult situations. This is an interactive workshop that will allow tutors to learn from each other and share ideas surrounding this topic.

This session will provide tutors with information to improve their support of students with disabilities. Tutors will come away with a much better understanding of the students with disabilities population, including important do's and don'ts and strategies for success.

In this interactive workshop, we will discuss some findings from the science of learning that inform effective study habits, model and practice several active learning strategies, and consider how these strategies may be applied to your own instructional context(s).

What does it mean to be an anti-racist peer tutor? In this participant-driven workshop, we will unpack the ways that bias plays out as we respond to other people’s writing. How and why do people judge others based on how they write and speak? Whose languages, whose dialects, and whose voices command respect—or not—and in what contexts? Dealing with bias is not an easy task, so we’ll approach our work with patience and humor!

What do your tutees' internal dialogues indicate about their chances for success in a class? Does it matter? Can you help change it? Yes, it does matter, and yes, you can change it! Come explore how to assess whether your tutees tend to react to life events more as a victim or a creator. Learn to recognize their self-talk or “stinkin’ thinkin’” that leaves them in the victim seat. Then learn how to help them create greater success by changing their vocabulary!