Over the course of the semester you will complete some primary research into the tutoring process. This research will begin with a tutoring session in the Writing Center where you receive feedback on your Literacy Narrative. You should attend the writing center for this first tutoring session fairly early in your drafting process. You will also conduct one interview with a tutor in the OU writing center. You will then either conduct three tutoring observations and one co-tutoring session at the OU Writing Center OR complete 4 tutoing sessions at a school (TBA).
Your Tutoring Session: Everyone in this class will make (and keep) an appointment in the Writing Center to have a WC consultant assist them with writing their Literacy Narrative.When your session is over, you may want to ask the tutor to agree to an interview (below). Be sure to record a reflection for your field work journal and take notes of the interview.
One Tutor Interview: Everyone will also conduct one interview with a tutor in the Writing Center. Develope 3-4 open-ended questions that have occured to you as the semester has evolved. 2-3 of you may interview one tutor together, but you will write your own interview reflection for your tutoring journal.
People working in the Writing Center will complete three tutoring observations: Each of your three observation sessions will consist of full tutoring sessions (40 minutes long) where you observe a tutoring session in progress and take careful notes about that session.
People working in the Writing Center will also complete one Co-Tutoring or Tutoring Session: Students in this class who are completing their tutoring field work in the Writing Center will engage in one co-tutoring session where they are paired with an experienced tutor and, together with this other tutor, conduct a tutoring session with a WC client.
People working in a school will complete a total of four tutoring sessions.
Throughout the semester you will reflect on your own tutoring session, observations, interviews, and tutoring experiences. You will need to have at least 300-words of detailed reflection for each of the field work activities you complete this semester. You may type this journal and submit it electronically; hand-write it in a notebook; type and hole-punch pages for inclusion in a binder; scrapbook the pages; or present this journal in any other way you wish. But you must include all of the pieces of the journal to get full credit for this work.
For your own session, observations, interview, and co-tutoring session, make sure you record the day, date, time, and location of the event, and record the name of the tutor who you worked with, observed, or interviewed.