Hi everyone,The Center Moves Editors are thrilled to inform you that issue 4 of Center Moves: A Peer-Reviewed Archive of Tutor Training Materials is live!
This is our first wildcard issue, in which authors could submit training lesson plans on any topic. We got some terrific submissions:
- Bonnie Devet, Mary Carr, Morgan Kelly, and Bianca Cedillo Perez prepare consultants to build analogies for writing center consulting, drawing on traditional rhetorical concepts to learn––from themselves and each other––what the work of consulting means.
- Elizabeth Gagné creates timely scaffolding for tutors to understand how and why tutoring is different from AI, and how tutors can engage their own intelligence alongside artificial intelligence to support writers.
- Carolyne M. King and Megan Boeshart Burelle develop a set of three scaffolded lessons that support tutors’ and writers’ rhetorical reading, helping them develop more nuanced ways of understanding source use across the disciplines.
- Michelle Marvin generates a workshop for tutors to develop more professional and personal tutor notes, helping them navigate and understand the genre and how they can communicate writing center values.
- CharLee Toth and Michael Ennis produce a cross-training usable in writing centers and tutoring centers, helping tutors understand, apply, and adapt concepts from cognitive psychology to support and deepen their practice.
Please check their work out!
Also, if you are interested in submitting to issue 5, which invites materials that train tutors to work with writers and writing from across disciplines and to check in with writers through the session, the deadline has been extended until tomorrow. If you are interested and reach out ASAP, we might be able to hold the reviews a couple extra days for you!
Full details and the submission link can be found at the Center Moves homepage.
Sincerely,
The Center Moves Editorial Board
Erin Zimmerman
Melody Denny
Erik Echols
Juli Parrish
Olivia Tracy
Erin Zimmerman, PhD
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