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• Title: Overcoming the Silence: An Exploration of the Middle Ground of Directivity (Tutor's Column) (Personal Account)
• Author : Writing Lab Newsletter
• Release Date : January 01, 2008
• Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 57 KB

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It's a Monday afternoon, and you find yourself in the middle of your worst tutoring nightmare. As you are anxiously staring at your tutee's paper, waiting for her to respond to your question, "What is your thesis," you are met with a deafening silence. You are not alone. As writing tutors, it is not uncommon to elicit a blank stare or a nervous laugh instead of an actual answer to what seems like an easily answerable question. What is a tutor to do in this situation? Should we give our students an answer or sit there and stare them down until they come up with one of their own? Often, tutors feel forced to decide between squandering a session with bouts of silence or acting as a dictator instead of a peer. Tutors hesitate to explore the often over-looked middle ground. However, it is possible to find the balance between being overly directive and completely nondirective. This principle of "degree of directivity" involves analyzing the dynamic of the tutoring session and then utilizing that typically forgotten ability to compromise between two extremes. After evaluating a tape-recorded session, I found that varying my "degree of directivity" was helpful when asking my tutee a question that I felt was especially challenging to them, or when I could sense that my tutee's body language indicated she was not engaged with the session. I quickly discovered that asking a student open-ended directive questions with a low degree of directivity can actually be beneficial to both the tutee and the session itself.

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