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By Mona Pelkey

Dear Readers,

Welcome to another wonderful issue of The Learning Center Exchange! I am especially proud of this issue because, thanks to the inspiration of our authors (and perhaps a little serendipity) we literally have something for everyone!

Are you hiring or working with tutoring/learning/writing center student paraprofessionals? How do you distinguish the best candidates from a helicopter-parent-raised, overscheduled pool of students who all seem the same on paper because they all possess too many credentials? Julianne Scibetta, who writes LCE’s monthly series “Understanding Today’s Students,” offers insight into the beliefs and attitudes of these students and excellent suggestions for “Finding a Diamond in the Rough.”

We have two excellent articles on writing this month. Kyle Cushman, who authors our monthly series on writing, brings us “Titles: More Than an Afterthought.” When Kyle sent me her story, she jokingly warned me that I might want to pour a cup of tea and eat brownies after I read her article. You’ll see what I mean when you read her article, and I guarantee that your writing students will write “yummy” titles on their papers using her suggestions!

“The LSE Writer’s Workshop: A Work in Progress” by Roseanna Almaee documents the background, philosophy, and beginnings of a truly creative and ambitious project: the creation of a “writers’ guild” model writing program for learning center students. After reading her article, you will look forward to her upcoming sequel, and be inspired as well!

Dennis Congos offers us another wonderful handout with step-by-step techniques and abundant illustrations to help students use note cards to practice, learn, and over learn those important formulas for math and science courses. And if you love this handout, please refer to our back issues for more!

Professional development is very important to us at LCE, so we again offer our humor column, “Sometimes You Have to Laugh/Not Yet Perfectly Fluent” by Barbara McLay, and our always challenging “Brainteasers” by Julianne Scibetta. Take a break, refresh, rejuvenate, and enjoy! (And if want to see your name in print, solve those Brainteasers and send your answers to Julianne, or write down your own funny classroom stories and send them to Barb for inclusion in future columns!)
Best wishes--Mona

Questions or comments? Contact the author at mpelkey@learningassistance.com.

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