Tutoring Rant

I realize that last week I was talking about how awesome it was to be running the math workshops and how great it felt to be a tutor, but I've recently come to the conclusion that I simply don't know how I feel about it... Sure, I love the aspect of being a tutor and helping people, but the subjects I cover are subjects that people tend to avoid getting tutoring for.

Culinary Students tend not to seek out help for their labs. They have very little reason to. Not only are the classes mostly skill-based, but they only last 9 class days. Even if they're having trouble in the class, they don't exactly have a lot of time to come in to Academic Support to get help with the information. Not only that, but Culinary Students are arrogant assholes. Most of them tend to believe that they can figure it out on their own, and many more of them are perfectly content to pass with a D. I'll be the first to admit that I'm an asshole, too, but at least I'm willing to admit when I need help. I was lucky when it came to labs because my experiences at LCCTC basically taught me everything I needed to know in the labs, and the majority of them were simply review. That being said, the ones that actually taught me new things were easier for me because I understood the basic concepts, and that's something many Sophomores at JWU can't seem to understand.

As for the Nutrition tutoring, we haven't even had one person come into Academic Support to ask about possible tutoring. Granted, this is partly my fault for not going into the classes and letting the students know that I'm here (Something I intend to remedy in the coming week), but Nutrition is a class that causes a lot of people trouble in this school, and for good reason, too. It's a challenging and confusing class. Again, I got lucky when it came to Nutrition because I've been exposed to the information that was covered almost more times than I can count... Biology in high-school, Health in high-school, Nutrition unit at LCCTC, Nutrition unit in one of the basic cooking classes I took in high-school, the Nutrition Lab here at JWU, and the Nutrition Class at JWU, not to mention the diabetes training I received when I was diagnosed. I highly doubt that there are many students here who have had as much exposure to Nutrition as I have, and, naturally, I worry a little that nobody has even started asking about getting help; especially since midterm was this past week.

There's probably more that I can talk about, but I'm feeling lazy right now, so I'm just gonna stop for the day... If something interesting or infuriating happens at work, I'll post when I get off, but other than that, don't expect anything else from me today.

TTFN!