Response Guidelines for Journal Entry #2

• How did you begin and set the agenda for the session?
• What techniques did you use during the middle of the session?
• How did you end the session and evaluate progress?
• What was successful about the session and what was not?

• Follow the same General Journal Response Guidelines as last week: Be positive and encouraging and relate your own experience.
• Refer to the Tutoring Cycle handout to remember the specifid steps tutors are asked to follow. Pay particular attention to whether the tutor tries to set an agenda and leaves time for wrap-up at the end.
• If the tutor has not addressed he questions gently prompt him or her to reflect on the tutoring cycle: did s/he try to follow the steps discussed in class? Try to set an agenda? Evaluate the session with the tutee at the end of the session?
• Be reassuring for those tutors who still seem insecure.
• If a tutor is being simplistic or does not provide details ("Everything went great" or "I always start the same way" or " I didn't need to set an agenda because the student just wanted to work on homework"), challenge him or her to think more deeply about the questions by asking for examples of what worked and what didn't
• If journals are skimpy, ask lots of questions and encourage to write more next time. Express your curiosity.
• Encourage all tutors to talk to instructors.
• Encourage group tutors to play games such as jeopardy or quiz shows and try new techniques.