Any other: Focus on tutors, exchange of theoretical and practical knowledge
WHEN TUTOR MEETS TUTOR
Julius Voigt
Writing Centre, Frankfurt Oder, Germany
What happens when two writing tutors with different cultural backgrounds different mothertongues and from different disciplines in their studies meet in a writingconsultation giving advise to each other? In our workshop we would like to promote an exchange between tutors. Therefore we are going to create a situation of a liveconsultation where pairs of two tutors can exchange their tutoring methods and their ways of dealing with situations that they are confronted with in consultations. The aim is to generate knowledge for tutors and their work and to reflect different styles of tutoring in this livesituation. In various tutortutorconsultations we ourselves have already experienced the benefits from those special consultations in contrast to the usual tutorstudentones: On the one hand we get all the advantages that a usual consultation offers, but moreover we learn as tutors. Going into a consultation as a tutor, to get help with my paper, I take the role of a student. But being not only a student, I see the tutor in front of me with “professional” eyes and I am able to mirror the tutor his or her tutorstyle. From previous workshops, where we created a similar situation, participants experienced unexpected new ideas and methods that came up and enriched their “toolbox” of tutoring. The idea of this workshop is to generate knowledge in a very practical way by confrontation and experience. Interaction will be guided by us, participants will find a partner via a “speeddating”round in the group. There will be time and space for individual and collaborative thinking, action, reaction and reflection.