Thursday, October 1, 2009
Super Tutor!
Our group designed our tutor to look like an ordinary guy because you don't have to look cool to be a good tutor. He may look like just a normal dude, but he actually has some really cool powers. He can read minds, he has strong writing skills, lots of writing strategies, patience, sensitivity, and tons of experience in every field imaginable. Aside from the mind reading and experience in every field imaginable, I think our super tutor reflects what makes a tutor effective. To be a good tutor you have to be patient with your client. You also need to be sensitive at times because you don't want to hurt their feelings on a particular subject or offend them. Having strong writing skills and lots of writing strategies allows the tutor to help the client effectively with their writing, because he can use these skills and the various strategies he knows to transform himself so he can better fit the client's style. Our group chose Ordinary Joe's superpowers by asking eachother, "what can't you look up in a book?" You can always look up how to write citations and so on, but you can't look up good writing skills. The things we chose are things that come with experience and a passion for writing. It's not always about the client's paper either, Ordinary Joe expresses patience and sensitivity that makes him easier to get along with and more helpful to the student in the long run.
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I like the idea of an ordinary superhero. Very cool.
ReplyDeleteI like your question of, "What can't you look up in a book?" because I think that the skills that answer that question are what separates ordinary tutors from extraordinary tutors. I will now have to ask myself what *I* possess that can't be looked up in a book and see if my answers satisfy me.
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