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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