How do you...?

...assist students to achieve their goals?
...decide which questions are helpful to ask students?
...use questions to teach a student a concept?

Share your strategies with colleagues in a comment.


9/14 INSERVICE
"The question isn't who is going to let me, it's who is going to stop me."
-Ayn Rand

Renee led the September 14 inservice about questioning strategies for our work with students. The main event involved the acting out of Gary Shoup's book Suma The Elephant.

The Story
Suma is an elephant kidnapped as a baby by monkeys and convinced by them that she's only a pet. Suma's dream is to be free like other elephants who befriend her while she's tied to a tree.

Questions
TS staff deliberated questions for posing to Suma depending on which character a card illustrated. The aim of questions: help Suma achieve her goal to be free. From this conversation, we applied the story of Suma to our work with LCC students.

WELCOME BACK!

Fall 2007 at LCC is in full swing. Welcome back, everyone, to TS! And a special welcome to new colleagues.

Please take a moment and let colleagues hear something about you:

What are you up to this term in TS?
What do you hope to learn about in coming months?
What or who do you find a good resource in the office?

Returning colleagues, what tip can you offer our new colleagues?
New colleagues, what question do you have for we who've been in the office?

What did you find especially helpful from the staff orientation
or the first inservice?

Dates in August

Yes, Fall 2007 is around the corner! Here's a reminder about dates to come:

AUGUST
23 (TH) LCC Classes Start
30 (TH) TS Tutoring Starts
31 (F) TS Inservice

Looking Forward, Looking Back

Hidy ho! You made it here! I sent a draft of the April 13th inservice agenda to everyone who was at our inservice planning group. Did you receive it? Any thoughts, suggestions, or ideas?

Thank you!

Renee

For All the Fish!

On Friday, March 16, Tutoring Services colleagues gathered on LCC's East Campus for a professional development retreat titled

"Creating a Vision for 2007-2008: 'For All the Fish!'"

About 30 support staff, tutors, and supplemental instruction leaders dialogued about creativity and generated a framework for next year's professional development opportunities.

Here the dialogue continues by sharing questions and insights. Everyone's contributions are welcomed:

• TS colleagues who participated in the retreat
• TS colleagues wondering about the retreat
• Library Services colleagues wondering about the retreat and/or TS professional development opportunities
• new TS hires wondering about the office's professional development opportunities

LCC Library Guide to Citing Sources

Hello everyone,

I wanted to let you all know about a new resource developed by LCC librarians:
LCC Library Guide to Citing Sources. This guide shows how to cite print, media, and online sources in MLA or APA style.

To find the guide from the LCC Library homepage:

1. Go to the http://www.lcc.edu/library

2. Click on Research Help on the top right side of the page.

3. Click on LCC Guide to Citing Sources on the lower left side of the page.

The guide is a work in progress, so feel free to send along comments and suggestions.

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