Tutor Identity: Learning from Preservice Teachers’ Tutoring Experiences


Tutor Training

By Rasha Alkhateeb, Loren Jones, and Alison Jovanovic, University of Maryland, College Park—Writing center tutors are teachers of writing. As tutors identify their reflexive writing identities, or how they understand their identity as writers and teachers of writing, they negotiate how writing is positioned as a meaning-making process in their sessions (Ryan). The process of developing a writer and teacher identity makes writing tutoring spaces valuable for preservice teachers who  are learning how to work alongside students.[…]

June 25, 2024