Wright - Roles, Responsibilities, and Ethics

These items promote successful tutoring by modeling and creating habits of learning.  By letting the student hold the pen or pencil while working on an assignment, for example, the student exercises their brain not just by listening, but by doing.  By breaking a tutoring session up into short segments of varied activity, the student is encouraged to do the same during a solo studying session.  This is a study skill that will serve the student well as they go forward in their school career.

My most important items are those that encourage a student to seek small victories as they work toward their goals.  Looking at all the things you have to learn for a successful career is intimidating.  But there is a reason that we learn these things over the course of two or four (or more!) years.  We group these skills together, and break them into semester long classes.  We break up these classes into chunks of information.  We work on each chunk, and then test our knowledge of that chunk before we move on to the next.  Having had success to build on, the whole educational process becomes easier and easier, until the student is making it on their own.

My own personal code of ethics would also include "As I strive to help my student grow as a seeker of knowledge, so will I strive to grow as a seeker of knowledge."  I should always be seeking ways to be a better tutor and a better student.

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