"Getting to know You...Building Relationships as a Tutor" by Karen Castellucci
I read this article to learn a few tips on how to make a student comfortable in sessions but what I discovered through Castellucci's article is that an appropriate tutor-student relationship rarely happens in one session.
Tutor-student relationships are more developed and more personal than teacher-student relationships, yet tutor's can't be "buddies" with the tutee, so the rapport has to be in a middle ground. Most students don't realize that the tutor-student relationship is has a collaborative objective.
In Castellucci's primary example, it took her an entire semester for one student to become comfortable with her and to trust her. She accomplished this by probing questions about her writing and by asking personal questions about the student's life. She tried to show that she cared about the student's success. But in the end, the student learned to trust Castellucci through the process of collaboration - that they were both students learning from one another.
https://writinglabnewsletter.org/archives/v16/16-1.pdf
I read this article to learn a few tips on how to make a student comfortable in sessions but what I discovered through Castellucci's article is that an appropriate tutor-student relationship rarely happens in one session.
Tutor-student relationships are more developed and more personal than teacher-student relationships, yet tutor's can't be "buddies" with the tutee, so the rapport has to be in a middle ground. Most students don't realize that the tutor-student relationship is has a collaborative objective.
In Castellucci's primary example, it took her an entire semester for one student to become comfortable with her and to trust her. She accomplished this by probing questions about her writing and by asking personal questions about the student's life. She tried to show that she cared about the student's success. But in the end, the student learned to trust Castellucci through the process of collaboration - that they were both students learning from one another.
https://writinglabnewsletter.org/archives/v16/16-1.pdf
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