Presenters: Joanna Labov, Leslie Kirshner-Morris
Audience: Faculty, Staff, Administrators

Learning Goals

Participants will:

• Learn the importance of collaborating weekly online with an assigned Leaning Lab tutor
• Learn the importance of using collaborative tools to facilitate lesson planning, delivery, reflection and intervention
• Learn how to improve their students’ reading and writing skills by collaborating effectively with an assigned Learning Lab tutor

Seminar Description

The importance of the professor-tutor collaboration is not highly recognized. We will present the effectiveness of collaboration between an ESL Reading/Writing professor and a Learning Lab tutor. The tutor was assigned to the professor’s lower-intermediate Reading/Writing class. The importance of relationship building was an essential aspect of the collaboration. In addition, there was a commitment between the professor and tutor to plan the classes in order to meet the needs of the students on a weekly basis.