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The Center
Location: Keystone 202
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Pedagogy
The Center uses a cooperative, collaborative model for working with clients. The sessions are tailored to meet the needs of each individual or group who comes through our doors (or email lines or phone lines) for services. Muriel Harris (2001) wrote, "When we pause to examine why one-to-one tutoring is so effective, we note the power of individualizing, working with each student in terms of that student's needs, background, and mode of learning" (p.1). It is crucial to note, moreover, that the student, the client, bears the responsibility for identifying his or her needs and relevant background, which will then guide the direction of the consultation.
The responsibility for any project, and the credit for work well done, must remain with the writer, the speaker, the problem-solver. Our consultants,students helping students, are generalists; that is, they focus their work in the area of writing/verbal, or math/quantitative--skills that are used across the curriculum at UWT. They receive training, of course, and often comment that they benefit greatly from working at the Center, especially in terms of their own learning. Working with other students allows for a freer exchange of ideas and exploration than might otherwise be achieved within a structure of power. It also allows for students to exchange resources with each other, and to find the information needed (such as a citation) together.
The cooperative model serves to remove some of the isolation and individualism from an intense academic setting. We also have instructional consultants who work with students, faculty and staff. The instructional consultants enjoy a peer relationship with faculty and staff. They are also more specialized in their knowledge, they serve as trainers and mentors for the peer consultants and as support for faculty and program staff. They, too, exercise an individualized, collaborative relationship with undergraduate and graduate students.
Appointments
Verbal (writing, reading, learning strategies, public speaking, group dynamics)
- Appointments with our consultants can made be on the Web site at http://www.tacoma.washington.edu/ctlt
- Please make your appointments at least one hour prior to the appointment time. You are always welcome to stop by if it looks like a consultant is open; however, we may have assigned him/her to other clients or duties at that time.
- Push the “Make an Appointment” button and follow the directions.
- Students may have up to one hour of consultation per day, including drop-in.
- Appointments are held for 10 minutes; please call us if you are going to be late or need to cancel so we may serve another.
- Please do not sign up for more than 1 hour per day or all of your appointments will be expunged from the schedule.
- If you have any trouble making an appointment, please call the reception desk at 253.692.4417, or stop by the reception desk in Keystone 202 for assistance.
- Please fill out the blue intake form upon arrival.
Drop-in Hours for Verbal
- Monday through Thursday, 10 am -11 am and 3 pm - 4 pm, Friday 10 am - 11 am.
- Consultations are on a first-come – first-served basis.
- The sign up sheet is placed on the front desk 10 minutes before drop-in begins.
- Students must sign up and stay; leaving forfeits your place in line.
- Please fill out a blue intake form while you wait.
- Consultations are 20 minutes maximum during drop-in so we may effectively serve the most people.
- No 60-minute consultations will be offered during our drop-in hours.
Quantitative (math, statistics, and science)
- Quantitative needs are served by drop-in only.
- Individuals and groups are welcome during our consultants’ hours.
- Please fill out a blue intake form upon arrival and give to the consultant with whom you work.
- Please check the Web appointment schedule each quarter for hours, or call us at 253-692-4417.
Workshops
The Center provides the following workshops in:
- Learning Strategies
- APA & Citation Happy Hours
- Using Your APA Manual
Other Workshops
Additional workshops on specific academic skills may be scheduled in the Center (Keystone 202) based on need. Student groups, faculty, staff, and programs may request custom workshops, designed and taught to fit specific group training needs.
Please send your request to: uwtteach@u.washington.edu
Student Technology workshops are available through Academic Technologies at:
Student Technology Training.
Study Areas
Adaptive Technology
- Available in Key 202 D
- Available by reservation or drop-in (call 253.692.4417 or come by to reserve 202D)
- Reservations take precedence over drop-in
Interview & Video/Audio-taping
- Interview & video/audio-taping, public speaking practice, small group or individual (nearly soundproof) study
- Available in Key 202E (call 253.692.4417 or come by to reserve 202E)
- Available by reservation or drop-in
- Reservations take precedence over drop-in
Open Area
Registered UWT students, and current UWT faculty and staff, may use available tables and computer stations, in the large open areas, for individual and small group study. When the Center is full, clients with consultation appointments have first priority.
Workshop Room (KEY 216)
Students may reserve our workshop room for group work. There is a two hour limit.
Computer Use
- Users must have their own, individually assigned log-in UW NetID and a UWT login to access all UWT campus computers.
- Please do not ask our employees to log you in.
- Public access computers are available in the UWT Library.
A UW NetID can be created on
the Web at http://uwnetid.washington.edu/newid/
You will be asked for your Student ID (Husky Card) number and Private Access Code (PAC). If you lack either, go to the Enrollment Services GWP 102.
A UWT login can be created in Walsh Gardner building room 108.
Printing Options
- Using the Pharos system, students may print from Key 202 (any computer station) to any of the computer labs on campus, to the copy center, and to the library.
- There is a charge for printing through the Pharos system.
- Students may download their work to a flash drive or send their work to themselves via email.
- Students may print at the free stations in the WCG atrium.
- Students must provide their own paper for the free printers.
(No student printing is allowed on TLC employee printers. Please bring a printout of your work, your work on-disk, or access to your work on a share drive to each conference. Our consultants will work with you in the format which you bring.)
TLC Environment
All clients and visitors to The Center are expected to refrain from disrupting the work and study of others. This includes using soft voices, leaving your work areas clean for the next person, not interrupting other consultations, etc. Students are expected to follow the student conduct code: http://www.washington.edu/students/handbook/conduct.html#020
Students are also expected to comply with the UWT commitment to diversity:
UW Tacoma's commitment to diversity is central to maintaining an atmosphere where students, staff, faculty and South Sound residents find abundant opportunities for intellectual, personal, and professional growth. To hold constant a nurturing learning and work environment in the midst of change, each member of our community has the responsibility to build and sustain respectful and supportive relationships, where intolerance, discrimination, and social injustice are confronted and resolved through non-violent behavior. Diversity at UWT is understood as an inclusive domain of human characteristics which may change over time or remain unchangeable, which may involve choice, or which may result from other life circumstances.