To help you take stock of your work as a Peer Writing Tutor and to make sure that you continue to identify what you are doing well and note opportunities for growth, we ask you to reflect each quarter on your work.

Each quarter, you are required to complete a tutoring reflection focused on synchronous tutoring modalities (F2F and ORT) and a tutoring reflection about asynchronous (written feedback). You choose if you want to complete a Self-Inquiry based on prompts for both synchronous and asynchronous, complete a Self-Observation for both synchronous and asynchronous, or complete a Self-Inquiry for one modality and a Self-Observation for the other.

🤔 About Self-Inquiry

Completing a self-inquiry asks you to reflect on your tutoring—what you think you do well and what you need to improve on—in a given tutoring modality (synchronous—Face to Face and Online Realtime or asynchronous—Written Feedback). Consider your practices in both Writing Center and Writing Fellows appointments as you reflect.

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• If you have two or more appointments in a given modality in a given quarter, you may choose to complete a Self-Inquiry or a Self-Observation for that modality in your ePortfolio for that quarter.
• If you have only one appointment in a given modality in a given quarter, you complete a Self-Observation on that one appointment for that modality.
• In rare cases where you have no appointments in a given modality in a given quarter, you do not need to complete a reflection for that modality that quarter; you should document that fact on that modality’s page of your quarterly ePortfolio before submitting. </aside>

🪜 Specific Instructions

1. Decide which modality you want to reflect on using Self-Inquiry. It can be synchronous or asynchronous, or you can complete a Self-Inquiry for each modality.

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   For new tutors in your first quarter of employment, you are welcome to consider your tutoring practices and experiences in Phase 2 of Collaborative Observations as you reflect on what you’re doing well and what you seek to improve as part of the Self-Inquiry reflection form.

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2. For each modality, you will reflect on two prompts:

   1. What I Think I Do Well
   2. What I Need to Improve

3. Complete your reflection by writing at least 200 words for each prompt. Tutors often write 200-500 words to thoughtfully address the prompt and the questions for consideration—that you find most relevant for a given reflection—provided on the reflection form.

4. Using the ePortfolio template assigned to you in Digication, upload your completed reflection form to the modality page of the ePortfolio.

🪞Self-Inquiry Reflection Form

Self-Inquiry Reflection Form

1. Access the form linked above and make a copy of it
   1. File > Make a copy
2. Complete the form in the text editor of your choice (Google Docs, Microsoft Word, etc.).
3. Export or save your form as a PDF.
4. Using “Upload File” under “More Ways to Add Content” in Digication, upload your PDF to your quarterly ePortfolio on the page corresponding to the modality of your reflection.

📜 Sample Self-Inquiry Reflection

Tutor Example Self-Inquiry Reflection Form-2.pdf