For this week, instead of just responding to the chapters in the book, we get to write about the superheroes that we created last Wendsday.
Usually, when I go into an English class, the last thing I would think that we would ever do was create superheroes! This was kind of bizarre and wierd, but really cool at the same time. I have never done anything like this before, so it really was alot of fun. Superheroes have always been a big part of my life. When I say this, I mean that ever since I was around 7, I have constantly read numerous amounts of comic books with superheroes that I always thought were amazing to me. However, I have never thought of a superheroe being an English tutor.
The classroom was broken up into three or four different groups consisting of about four students. Each group was given a different colored poster board and different pictures of superheroes that they could choose from to put on the posterboard. We chose orange, and somehow or another decided on a villian. But this wasn't just any villian, this was "Doctor Octopus"! In my eyes, Doctor Octopus, was the craziest villian from the Spiderman series. I can't beleive that we chose him, but we did.
So perhaps the person who is reading this is asking themselves, "why would you ever choose Doctor Octopus"? Doctor Octopus the villian, consists of eight tentacles that he uses to fight his enemies or either get what he wants. Now as tutors, in so many ways, we are unfortunatly seen by many students as the "bad guy". I can see why they think that way, I used to think that way as well. Now that I am on the othe side of the fence, I know that I am not the bad guy, but really the "good guy" trying to do some good.
We basically named our hero Mr.Ironic. I think this is a great name! I wish I could name his strengths, but unfortunatly I forgot them. I think that some of the strenghts that we gave him were, that he was flexibile, straight-forward, honest, and understanding. These are all traits that every tutor should bring with them once they enter the writing center.
I am actually glad that we did something like this in class. This project showed that we can have fun, but we can actually learn alot from each other on how we should conduct ourselves as tutuors. As tutors, we should always do our best to be the "hero" of the situation and to be limitless with our powers!
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I really liked our Super Tutor. I also really enjoyed seeing how different (and yet similar) the class's Super Tutors really were. Picking just five qualities was very difficult for us, and I imagine it was hard for the rest of the class. It really made us think about what we REALLY want in tutors.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Crystal. I like that the class sort of came to consensus, without even trying, about what makes tutors effective. I suppose my nightmare version of this exercise would be every group saying, "We need to know grammar, and grammar, and grammar..." I was relieved, from a teacher standpoint, when that didn't happen.
ReplyDeleteI suppose if you think about our class as a model for how to be a good teacher/tutor, it's important to keep in mind that the best learning occurs when people are having fun, because fun equals engagement and engagement equals learning. I think my super tutor would have playfulness as a superpower. It's definitely a superpower I try to cultivate as an instructor!