LEVEL 2 SESSION 3•Assessing, Assumptions, and Motivations and/or Changing Study Habits
•Tutoring in specific skill/subject areas
•Cultural Awareness/Intercultural Communication
•Diversity
•Referral Support Services
Assessing Adult learners Behaviors
Six Assessments of Adult Learners. Six Assumptions about adult learners. Six known Adult motivations to learning. Changing Study Habits. Behaviors
1. Anger2. Boundaries3. Passive/aggressive
Assessing Adult Behaviors
Six Assessments of Adult Learners. Mood Ready to work Environment Session goals Tools Tutor
Assumption of Adult Behaviors
Six Assumptions about adult learners. Age Stress Exposure to other learning styles Collaboration of thoughts Expansion of understanding and ideas Active participation
Lea Edwards , Interventions for Health Promotion, Chapter 9, Health Education, 1981 (HCC)
Motivation of Adult Learners
Six Adult motivations to learning Coping skills Learning opportunities New occupations as a result of changes Engage in transitioning Motivated to make change Self-esteem motivationRon and Susan Zemke, Innovations Abstracts, Vol. VI, No 8 Marc h 9, 1984
Changing Study Habits
Textbook Survey
Time Management
Reading/Writing System
Organization
Notes Taking
Tutoring in specific skill/subject areas
Problems unique to your specific discipline
Self-Analysis of your skills
Preparation for your sessions.
Study skills with discipline emphasis
Home Work Exercise One
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Multicultural Students at MCC
Have you ever known a student from another country?
What was your perception of this student?
What do you know about their home culture?
Did you tutor them and in what subject?(CRLA TTHB p. 96)
Culture and Cultural Awareness, Inter-Cultural Communication,
and Diversity
What is “culture?”
Okay, so what is cultural awareness?
Inter-Cultural Awareness
Diversity
Why do I need to know this?
Culture and Cultural Awareness
Okay, so what is cultural awareness?
The “Art” of Communication
Body Posture Eye contact
Gestures
Facial Expression
Verbal Communication
Non-Verbal communication
Break Time
Communication and Culture
Or should it be Culture and Communication?
Communication
Contextual: Quality of Communication
Culture
Inter Cultural Communication
Your Commitment
Do Not Judge
Understanding
Perception
Diversity
Traditional/Non-traditional Students
Under-prepared
Disability ResourceAccommodations
Probing Questions
ClarificationAssumptions
Probe reasons and evidenceViewpoints and perspectives
Implications and consequencesQuestions about the question
Referring
Co-Dependency Tutor as a Rescuer Tutor as a Martyr Tutor as a Victim
When to Refer Where to Refer
Important Reminders
Acknowledgment/Citations
Webster’s New Basic Dictionary, 2007, Houghton Mifflin Co.
College Reading and Learning Association Tutor Training Handbook, 2003, Lenexas p.96 (CRLA TTH).
Lea Edwards, Interventions for Health Promotion, Chapter 9, Health Education, 1981 HCC
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