What Dog is Your Tutoring Style?

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Discover Your Tutoring Style

Uncover the unique tutoring persona that matches your approach to teaching! This engaging quiz will lead you through a series of questions designed to reveal your tutoring style based on your preferences and experiences.

With questions covering everything from session beginnings to your favorite writing processes, you will get valuable insights into how you can connect better with your students and enhance your effectiveness. Here are some highlights:

Explore your assignment preferences
Identify rewarding moments in tutoring
Reflect on your ideal student interactions

10 Questions2 MinutesCreated by GuidingStar2023

What is your preferred type of assignment to work on (with a student)?

What makes this job rewarding for you?

Seeing the realization in a student's eyes when they understand a concept

Fostering a long-term love of writing in someone

Raising someone's confident in their abilities

Making an impact in so many different lives

Long-term improvement in a regular student

Establishing a strong enough rapport for a regular client

Which of these sounds like the biggest "nightmare session" to you?

A student with no goals comes in late. They forgot the rubric and prompt for the assignment. They want to explain it (poorly) instead of logging into Blackboard.

A student wants to fully revise a ten page paper in a thirty-minute appointment. The paper is due within half an hour of finishing your appointment and it is clearly still in a rough-draft phase.

A student comes in with no assignment and unwilling to practice skills. They complain that their professor makes them attend a session each month, but they don't believe they need any assistance

A student is unable to complete or even attempt the assignment in front of them. Something has clearly upset them prior to coming to this meeting. They sniffle and avoid eye contact, but won't respond to your concerns.

A student speaks poorly of a professor you are quite fond of. You are unable to disagree or contradict them. You try to move on with the assignment, but they continue harping on their dislike for that professor

A student brings their assignment in with the expectation that the work will be performed from them. They are obstinate to encouragement by the tutor to perform the work themselves. They question what the purpose of the center is if you don't edit their spelling mistakes

Do you prefer long or short sessions?

Longer sessions. I like to dig into a concept with a student.

Longer sessions. Students establish better rapport with more time to talk

Shorter sessions. Students are more casual and friendly

Shorter sessions. I like seeing a wide variety of students

No preference

If you could work anytime of day, when would it be (and why)?

Morning. Grad students and early risers make the best clients.

Afternoon. Lunchtime students are relaxed and have ample time to finish their assignments.

Evening. Night-owls are no-nonsense, straight-to-the-point clients. It helps that the assignment is due in an hour.

What Dog is Your Tutoring Style?

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