First-Year Seminar Mentor Training Session 3–Study Skills and Macro to Micro

All fall 2010 and spring 2011 FYSMs must attend. Yonna will discuss Study Skills in the first hour; Mary Ellen will discuss Macro to Micro and Thesis Statements in the second hour.  For previously trained Peer Writing Tutors, the second hour is optional.

Peer Tutor Training Session #3–Macro to Micro and Thesis Development

All new Peer Writing Tutors Must Attend.

Trainings are sequential in order and build on each other; therefore, we expect you to attend regularly scheduled afternoon training sessions. Makeup sessions are for peer Writing Tutors and FYS Mentors who have legitimate conflicts (sports practice, orchestra, job interview, or a lecture required for a class). In advance of the regular session, please e-mail for permission to attend a makeup session. Make-ups will be given only with permission
and in advance for a valid reason. E-mail Emma Drucker for permission. Emma with
consult with Mary Ellen Bertolini and Yonna McShane, and then let you know if you have permission to attend a makeup session with Emma (PWTS) or Emma and Andrew (FYSMs).

Note for FYSMs:
There is no make-up for Banner training on Thursday, November 4, Lib. 201 from 5:00 to 6:30 pm.
Make-ups for Session 4 (Speaking) on Thursday, September 30, CTLR, 4:30-7:00 will only be granted for extraordinary reasons.

We’ll be completing the FYS Mentor placements for the fall in the next week.  Then we’ll be starting on Mentor assignments for spring 2011!

You might be wondering how we make these assignments. You start the process in the spring or fall when you fill out your future plans form! In May or June, we share information about you to faculty teaching First-Year Seminars in the fall. At that time, faculty who may have had you in class, choose you to work with their FYSEs.  After that, we contact faculty with recommendations based on the contents of the FYSE and the courses you have taken until all the matches are made.