Class Agenda 6.27

1. Quiz

2. Brief reaction to diagnostic essays. (Life lessons, humor, firmness, communication, control, patient, calm, flexible, creative, fun, optimistic, faithful, active, empowering, caring, blunt, personal, enthusiastic)

3. Brief discussion of text: what was new to the class? What was already known? What does the class now need to know?

4. Pair work. The goal of this exercise to teach the rest of the class some of the key ideas from the reading. Your pair should answer the following questions as you define the ideas assigned to you, and write brief answers (bullets, not sentences) on the board with dry erase marker (for extra credit, you may compose a short blog about your term and post it to your blog (worth 5 quiz points):

a. What is the definition of your idea, in your own words?
b. How does one practice it as a tutor?

Natalia-Marielli: stage-process model & recursive stage-process model
Annie-Fizza: culture and politics of writing
Candace-Jarisel: priority of concerns
Shanice-Lauren: student-centered tutoring/collaborative tutoring/teacher centered tutoring
Shanae-Rebecca: chaos of tutoring/ complexity of tutoring
Jamie-Guadalupe: fuzziness of tutoring
Margo-Angela?: Body language


5. Log in to Blogger and create a blog page for yourself. Directions at right or HERE. I'll try and model basic sequence.

6. Email the link to your blog to me (this is the screen visible to the outside world, not your "dashboard" screen, which only you can see. Hit "View Blog" to get the "front door" screen to your blog, and email this link to jrogers@lagcc.cuny.edu

7. Go over Moffett research assignment.

8. View short Moffett video(s). Take notes.

9. Blog number 1: Practice the techniques of summary and reflection. Blog goal: To summarize what Moffett discussed in his video for a sophisticated LaGuardia student, and to reflect on his ideas. What seems productive to you? How would you practice it? What questions or concerns do you have?

10. (Time-allowing) - Begin to research Moffett for the paper due next week. Note you will bring a draft for Peer Review (see syllabus).