Tips for a new Tutor
When ESL students are apprehensive about discussing their paper verbally (most likely due to their lack of confidence in their mastery of English), limit your questions to those which can be given a 'yes' or 'no' answer. Attempt to express in your own words the key ideas of their paper and then ask them if you interpreted them correctly. They will eventually begin to expound upon their topic freely.
When a student drags his/her feet, and begins to make excuses about difficulty, unfairness, and such, gently bombard him/her with queries (perhaps ones peripheral to the topic) to bring him/her back around to the mode of thought where he/she is attempting to complete work and not whining.
Do not ever 'check out' a student of the opposite sex. If a student 'comes on' to you, express that this conduct is inappropriate and move to a public area quickly.
3 Comments:
My question to you good sir regarding the last paragraph is this: Do you practice what you preach, or rather is this advice more of a personal mantra which you are using to steer yourself from temptation?
Also, it seems that by unintentional lack specificity you are implying it IS alright to 'check out' students of the SAME SEX as yourself. Of course, as a friend I understand the implicit heterosexual context of this statement, and I can therefore make sense of it. But consider our other potential friend, the observing alien creature... do you really want to project yourself as gay in his/her/its eyes?
I've never had a student come on to me in the writing lab, though that would probably make things more interesting. Aliens are probably asexual anyway, so it really doesn't matter that they might think I was gay, unless they are violent homophobes. In that case, I would make sure I was deeply entrenched in tang while being observed by them.
Not checking out the fine SBCC female specimens is sometimes difficult. Its all about focusing on the eyes.
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