Benefits of Workshop Series to Students, Faculty, and Staff Developmental English Learning Center Weber State University

9-topic workshop series. Each topic taught for 1 week. Taught 24 times/week, 25 minutes per session. Includes pre- and post-tests for all sessions. Scripted by me with tutors, faculty, & LYSK and taught by tutors through a scaffolded training process. Materials posted on conference site and at weber.edu/delc. Will discuss – Theory and research behind our choices. – Benefits to students, faculty, and staff. – “How to” of workshop process.

Curriculum + Tutoring DE Learning Center dedicated to supporting DE Department and curriculum. DE Learning Center dedicated to supporting DE Department and curriculum. Tutoring required in order to teach students to use services, but tutoring only mandatory 3 times. Tutoring required in order to teach students to use services, but tutoring only mandatory 3 times. DELC mostly quiet. DELC mostly quiet. Course became hybrid in Workshops a way of giving f2f support to students and faculty moving online. Course became hybrid in Workshops a way of giving f2f support to students and faculty moving online. Grammar taught as part of the course. We can help. Grammar taught as part of the course. We can help.

Showing up for Students Theory & Research

BENEFITS TO STUDENTS, FACULTY, AND TUTORS

Benefits to DE Faculty

Benefits to tutors: Tutors created scripts and helped devise and revise the workshop process.

Benefits to Tutors/Program

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Tutor Feedback Tutor 1) This is probably one of the biggest benefits of having workshops as part of what we do: the fact that it has benefitted ME. I, myself, am much more confident about my own tutoring and my own knowledge. Having to stand up and explain grammatical principles to entire groups of people has translated into my being more sound in both my delivery and my understanding in explaining it to the individual writer. Teamwork-wise, the teaching of workshops has brought us all together as colleagues. We laugh more, know one another more, and have learned to trust one another with the passing on and the receiving of the baton, so to speak.

Tutor Feedback, cont.

Tutor Feedback

Lab Aide Feedback

Benefits to DE Students

Student Survey Comments

Student Survey Comments 

Student Survey Comments

Learning Outcomes!

See workshop data file on workshop materials page.

WORKSHOP PROCESS

Times & Duration

Color coding helped organize. See Schedule of Workshops and Tutoring on DELC home page.

See workshop Times and Procedures on the DELC homepage.

Each Workshop Session

The 25-minute workshop has begun, and no further participants may join us at this time. Please see the lab aide for further support.

Students

Tutors

Faculty

Documents for Process

Lessons Learned

Sources

weber.edu/delc