The Writing Center strives to promote learning, professional development, and reflection as much for you—our staff—as for the writers we work with. The training that takes place during your first quarter of employment at the Writing Center—particularly in WRD 395 or WRD 582—serves as the foundation of our work at the Writing Center.
We also design ongoing professional development opportunities to promote collaboration and reflection, build and advance knowledge, increase awareness of and appreciation for diversity, and provide a space where we can motivate and support each other as peer writing tutors.
The primary goal of Professional Development (PD) is to help tutors become better tutors. Through PD, tutors engage in improving their work within a supportive and collaborative learning community. Each of our PD Programs as listed below reflect our learning outcomes, are grounded in theory, and are directly applicable to and actionable in our work in the Writing Center.
Linguistic Justice + Diversity Training
Through participation in Professional Development, peer writing tutors will
Professional development content is focused on specific writing, tutoring, or employment-related topics. These workshops or modules may be synchronous or asynchronous; some will involve large or small group interactive elements while others will offer individual reflection opportunities.