In the first few moments of her three-day workshop, Supporting Reading Comprehension, Writing, and Study Skills at the Landmark College Institute, Linda Hecker prompted participants (I was one of five) to introduce ourselves and say why we came.
When it was my turn, I answered that I wanted to learn and develop more explicit teaching methods, [...]
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- Explicit teaching
Posted in experiment, teach, tutor, word on July 3, 2009 | 5 Comments »
- (Mis)reading
Posted in found, impulse, tutor, word on May 14, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Glancing at the CNN headlines this morning, I saw one — “Clinton Crushes Obama” — and experienced this instant, non-processed thought: Oh, what a turn of events! Hillary is falling for Barack’s charm, too.
Perhaps I have been spending too much time in the company of teens and pre-teens, and reading their magazines and FB wall [...]
- The long bones
Posted in body, students, tutor, word on April 20, 2008 | 1 Comment »
A student in the college’s funeral service program brought into the Writing Center her paper on organ and tissue donation. Before I read it, I asked her about the assignment, and I also asked if there was anything in particular she’d like me to read for. The assignment, she told me, required her to cover [...]
- Reciprocity
Posted in book, quotation, students, teach, tutor, word on March 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Sometimes a student enters the Writing Center in distress, having been told by a professor that his writing is so “unreadable” that the professor has not attempted, beyond the first paragraph, to read it.
These instances make me think again about the writer’s job, yet even more so about the reader’s. They each must try [...]
- Convergence
Posted in quotation, students, teach, tutor, word on January 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Last week we saw Ratatouille (Pixar 2007) for the first time. Remy is a French rat who loves fine food; his ambition to become a chef is stoked by imaginative visitations from the late Auguste Gusteau, a once-renowned restaurateur who wrote a book titled
Anyone Can Cook.
Yesterday I was sorting through a pile of non-urgent papers [...]
- Longer
Posted in students, tutor, word on December 4, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Scene: Writing Center. Student and tutor looking together at a paper.
Student: Why did you circle this… and this?
Jane: In a few places you use long phrases, and I’ll bet you could find a way to say it more directly.
Student: Oh, I know. But I sometimes add more words on purpose, so [...]
- Tutor as tailor
Posted in publish, students, tutor, word on November 8, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
My writing center colleague, Jane Hirschhorn, published her article, “ESL and LD Students: Diverse Populations, Common Concerns,” in the fall issue of Praxis. Grounding her discussion in research and personal experience, Jane describes writing challenges shared by diverse students, and she offers tutoring strategies, with examples, that effectively serve them.
Her key metaphor, incidentally, is [...]
- Being there
Posted in beginning, fear, students, tutor, word on September 15, 2007 | 4 Comments »
On Thursday, a new student, M., came in to the Writing Center for the first time. She had an assignment from her criminal justice class on the rule of law that she “just couldn’t start.” I sat next to her at the computer as she did the first thing: locate a definition [...]
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I'm Jane Kokernak, a writer who teaches college students and also gardens, makes things, and putters around. Here I blog about all that and sometimes digress; favorite people make an occasional appearance, too. Send e-mail to jane dot kokernak @ gmail dot com. -
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