Bryce Salmon

As I already covered what the first day of my course would look like in the tutoring advertisement that I posted on this website, an example of another task in my course for one of the days following the first day of class will be completing a document with worksheet-like questions. This is an assignment that I will ask my student(s) to keep for the following tutoring session. The questions will be, “What are your goals for this course?” and “What do you like to do in your free time?” I will also ask my student(s) to write about the best day of their life and turn that in. At some point in the course, I will ask my student(s) to work on an assignment that includes a paragraph quickly written up by me. In the paragraph, I will purposely make a few mistakes grammar/convention-wise. In the instructions section above the paragraph in the assignment, I will ask my student(s) to search for the errors and share them with me.

I will regularly use short exams as an evaluation method to determine what each of my students’ potential strengths and weaknesses are regarding the learning of different elements of the English language. Testing in a multiple-choice fashion will not be a regular part of my course, but testing in a free-response fashion will. I believe tests that have somewhat open-ended questions can truly show the intelligence or understanding that a student has of lesson material. Even though more work is involved, free-response tests show what a person truly thinks and shows why they think an answer to a test question is correct, unlike multiple-choice, where they may have seen the answer a few times while studying, but just can’t seem to recall it when it’s time to work on the question that applies to that answer in a multiple-choice fashion.

Qualifications-wise, during my final year at Gonzaga University, I completed the course, ENGL 395: The Teaching of Writing, and in that course, I created documents after conducting extensive research on what it means to be a culturally sensitive teacher of English writing and ELL (English Language Learning). Prior to the completion of that course, within my college career, I worked in one of Gonzaga University’s work study programs in the Writing Center at Gonzaga University as a Writing Tutor/Essay Revising Coach. During my short time in this position, as it was only a semester-long academic credit-based course, I assisted my peers in this semester-long position by suggesting edits that they could make to their papers either before or after they've received a grade for their work. I also conducted independent academic research to discover ways in which I could improve my own writing. I love to help others improve academically. One of my major strengths as an individual is my personability. This is important as it has allowed me to successfully interact with clients and coworkers in both the past and it has continued to do so presently.