Learning Strategies

“Metacognitive Approach to Taking Exams” created by the Center for Student Success at SUNY New Paltz

• Available through Hawksite. Accessible Word document available to download. A handout detailing expansive study and test preparation strategies that can useful for tutees.

“Papers & Essays: Crash Course Study Skills #9” posted by user “CrashCourse”

• Available through Youtube. Captions provided. A video explaining the process and basic steps of writing a research essay (in a science perspective).

“Strategic Test Prep” created by The Learning Center of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

• Available through Hawksite and website. Accessible version available through link. An article with some studying and test-prep strategies that can be useful for tutees.

Time Management for Busy Students created by KPU Learning Centres, published using Pressbooks by Kwantlen Polytechnic University.

• Available through Creative Commons. Accessible version available through link. A workbook on time-management to help people take figuring out how to budget their time well step-by-step.

Critical Thinking Skills and Critical Reading

 

 

Diveristy

“Beyond the Known: Writing Centers and the Work of Anti-racism” by Frankie Condon:

• Available through New Paltz Library database. Check to see if your institution has access. Accessible Word document available upon request.  An article exploring the concept of racism and antiracism in Writing Centers and tutoring. Though it focuses more on the institution than the tutor, it’s an interesting exploration that provides a treasure trove of other authors to look at to explore antiracism more through different contexts.

“‘Government of da Peeps, for da Peeps, and by da Peeps’: Revisiting the Contact Zone” by Jeffery Maxson

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• Available through New Paltz Library database. Check to see if your institution had access. Accessible Word document available upon request. An article exploring the idea of the contact zone as a way to change student and teacher perspectives through the context of examining the way English is regulated and perceived, especially in a an academic setting.

“‘Nah, We Straight’: An Argument Against Code Switching” by Vershawn Ashanti Young

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• Available through New Paltz Library database. Check to see if your institution had access. Accessible Word document available upon request. An article exploring code switching and assimilative nature of the way a single dominant form of English is taught in schools (to the detriment of students, according to Young). He instead advocates for code-meshing and the melding of standard or academic language with the natural dialects of the students, especially with dialects that are discriminated against like variations of AAVE.

“Pedagogy and Student Services for Institutional Transformation: Implementing Universal Design in Higher Education” edited by Jeanne L. Higbee and Emily Goff

• Free pdf available through website. Accessible version available upon request to publisher. A book about Universal Design.

Chapter 30: “Why Not Disclose?” by Julie R. Alexandrin, Ilana Lyn Schreiber, and Elizabeth Henry

• An article about creating a campus environment in which students feel safe to disclose their disability and why that safety is crucial to succeeding in helping students with disabilities.

“What is Deaf Culture?” by Joanne Cripps:

• Available through website. Accessible version available through link. An introduction to what Deaf culture is.

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Are Student’s Learning Styles Discipline Specific?

Questions to think about:

-What type of learner are you according to Kolb’s theory and how does your learning style correspond with your personality? Are you more reserved and quiet? A thinker? A doer? Impulsive?

-How might student’s behavior in a session reflect their learning style?