Assessing, Assumptions, and Motivations and/or Changing Study Habits Tutoring in specific skill/subject areas Cultural Awareness/Intercultural Communication Diversity Referral Support Services

Six Assessments of Adult Learners. Six Assumptions about adult learners. Six known Adult motivations to learning. Changing Study Habits. Behaviors 1. Anger 2. Boundaries 3. Passive/aggressive

Six Assessments of Adult Learners.  Mood  Ready to work  Environment  Session goals  Tools  Tutor

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)

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 motivation Ron and Susan Zemke, Innovations Abstracts, Vol. VI, No 8 Marc h 9, 1984

 Textbook Survey  Time Management  Reading/Writing System  Organization  Notes Taking

 Problems unique to your specific discipline  Self-Analysis of your skills  Preparation for your sessions.  Study skills with discipline emphasis

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 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)

 What is “culture?”  Okay, so what is cultural awareness?  Inter-Cultural Awareness  Diversity  Why do I need to know this?

Okay, so what is cultural awareness?

 Body Posture  Eye contact  Gestures  Facial Expression  Verbal Communication  Non-Verbal communication

 Or should it be Culture and Communication?  Communication  Contextual: Quality of Communication  Culture

 Your Commitment  Do Not Judge  Understanding  Perception

Traditional/Non-traditional Students  Under-prepared  Disability Resource Accommodations

Clarification Assumptions Probe reasons and evidence Viewpoints and perspectives Implications and consequences Questions about the question

 Co-Dependency  Tutor as a Rescuer  Tutor as a Martyr  Tutor as a Victim  When to Refer  Where to Refer  Important Reminders

 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 