Allison Hutchison
Some of my tutor ninjas and I at the 2015 Towson Tutor Awards Ceremony
I'm a versatile ninja who has experience in two-year, four-year, and online institutional settings. I love working with college students and training them to become future ninjas. Most of all, I enjoy making writing ninjas of two-year students, whose skills are often underestimated and require a bit of unearthing.
Employment History
- Teach Technical, Professional, and Science Writing
- Assist in coordinating internships for English Department students
- Successfully advocated for transitioning paper posters to digital posters for student presentations, a change that pleased students, the chair of MSE, and the ECP team.
- Conferenced individually with students to discuss writing revisions and goals.
- Led workshops on scholarship essay and resume writing.
- Created resources for classroom writing assignments.
- Supervised, hired, and held regular meetings with graduate assistants.
- Designed and conducted tutor training according to CRLA standards for over 75 peer tutors.
- Organized, publicized, and conducted study skills workshop series.
- Assisted in overseeing Academic Renewal Program, an alternative to academic suspension, to assist students in meeting requirements for continued enrollment and enhancing their academic study skills.
- Launched Facebook page and blog
- Created instructional videos on outlines, thesis statements, and citation pages for student and faculty use
- Piloted highly successful and well-attended online workshops via Blackboard Collaborate
- Developed materials and visual presentations for weekly workshop series
- Individually tutored students in writing
- Used sound pedagogy to engage students in essay writing assigments
- Met with students to discuss their performance, questions, and concerns about academic writing
- Used sound pedagogy to engage students in essay writing assigments
- Met with students to discuss their performance, questions, and concerns about academic writing
- Created Jing videos to provide students additional writing feedback which met their learning needs better than written feedback alone
- Provided instructions for accessing academic resources such as the Center for Writing Excellence
- Maintained rigorous and discussion threads and personalized posts to address specific student concerns