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Training Video: Online & Adult Learners
Purdue Global Office of Reporting and Analysis, 2022-2023 Academic Year
Training Video: Diverse Technical Competencies and Learning Atmospheres
Training Video: Learning Challenges for Diverse Students and English Language Learners
Purdue Global Writing Center Blog Posts on Diversity
To Build Confident ELL Writers, Focus on Strengths
One of my new graduate students in the English Language Learner (ELL) Tutoring and Outreach Program forwarded an email to me from her professor to show that she was given three extra days to revise her project and to work with an ELL tutor. Since I approach writing as a process, and for most students,…
Five Quick Ways to Tell if Your Student is an English Language Learner
Even the most proficient multilingual students struggle with language fundamentals such as preposition and gerund use that native speakers acquire intuitively as children. It takes years of immersion in English for nonnative speakers to acquire the same instinct for using a gerund, for example, and not an infinitive, after the particular verb, “considered”: she considered…
English Language Learner Support and the Making of an Inclusive Writing Center
Chrissine Cairns, MA, Writing Center Tutor The Writing Center is a dynamic and inclusive tutoring center staffed by experts in college writing, online writing instruction, and the delivery of personalized and multimodal tutoring services, webinars, and resources for adult students online. Housed in the Academic Success Center on Purdue Global Campus, our Writing Center is…
The Forget Kale or Chipotle Peppers-The Best Way to Learn English Quickly is Reading Method
By Jay Busse, M.A.T., Writing Center Tutor My ELL students frequently ask, “What is the fastest way to learn English?” I believe that, for ELL college students, the number one way to improve English is through reading. What does that have to do with the latest superfood? Maybe you remember when pesto was trendy, or…
Diversity in the Online Classroom
by Rathi Krishnan, Full-time faculty, Department of Composition, School of General Education, Kaplan University I presented at the IJAS — International Journal of Arts and Sciences Conference on May, 28th., 2013, which was held at the Harvard Medical School. My topic, ” Salad Bowl or Melting Pot: Fostering Diversity in the Online Classroom” was received with a…
Tutoring Shaped for Online Student Success
By Chrissine Rios Cairns, MA The role of tutoring in student success has received renewed attention in higher education in recent years as more colleges and universities offer academic programs online and discover what established online schools such have known for more than a decade: Online support services are integral to a quality education and…
Factoring in Feelings in Online Tutoring
Molly Wright Starkweather, MA, Kaplan University Writing Center Tutor “Why should we as tutors prioritize the emotional issues of our students?” This is a question that comes from a healthy place of caution, respecting the difference between the role of a tutor and the role of a counselor or mental health practitioner. One game-changer in…
Re-establishing Manageable Expectations in Tutoring
Kyle Harley, Kaplan University Writing Center Tutor Here at Kaplan University, our respective support centers housed within the Academic Support Center are lucky. I say this simply because we possess the ability to share experiences, challenges, and, of course, triumphs between our centers. With this, however, comes a very unique conversation, and one that…
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