Welcome

Welcome to Laurier Tutors Online, an interactive forum for reflecting upon and discussing your experiences as tutors. Consider this blog a space for all your anecdotes, observations, complaints, advice, philosophical musings, and ideological assertions. Through continuous reflection, we can explore our assumptions and beliefs in order to better understand who we are and what we do. Ideally, we will create an ongoing dialogue that can serve as a virtual construction of our pedagogical identity.

There are two ways to participate on the blog:

1) Create your own post on tutoring and/or writing centre issues. You can save your post before you publish it to the blog, and revise it at any time.
2) Use the comments function to post your reactions to other posts. These cannot be saved or revised, so choose your words carefully.

Talk to Phil if you need help. This is still a work in progress; as such, suggestions are most welcome.

A few guidelines for posting to the blog:

1) Please try to keep the discussions related to tutoring and writing centre issues. I welcome the unexpected tangents and diversions that will undoubtedly occur, but please try to stay on topic.
2) Respect students' confidentiality. When reflecting on a tutorial session, do not refer to your tutees by name.
3) Avoid the use of profanity. These discussions can and will be somewhat informal, but use discretion and remember that this is a public web page. Your words reflect not only you but the writing centre as whole, so choose them wisely.

I look forward to your thoughtful ruminations.