My Writing Coach Profile- Blog Post 2

 Kimberly Winston

    I am a third-year undergraduate student majoring in English Education at UWM. It was my freshman year of high school while reading Lord of the Flies when I first truly discovered a passion for the English and Language Arts subject and began envisioning myself one day teaching. The journey from then until now has given me many opportunities to grow as a writer and reader. I particularly enjoy papers that are about works of fiction because I love seeing how students can uncover the author's motive behind the work of fiction. In my writing, I am currently focusing on incorporating creative nonfiction writing into my life because that is one area of my writing that I can definitely improve on. I hope that becoming more comfortable in expressing the reality of our world through nonfiction writing will give me greater opportunities to impact those around me. When it comes to writing online, I have some experience but I definitely also have room to grow. All of my writing is composed online because my drafting process is done through typing but rarely to I write with the intention of posting online, which is why I'm grateful to be creating my first blog here! 

    Fortunately, I have known since high school that I would one day become a teacher so I was able to be a tutor at my high school. Unfortunately, when I look back on how I used to tutor I can definitely recall using the overpraising cheerleading and over critical correction that was mentioned in "What Tutoring Isn't" by McAndrew and Reigstad. However, through working on writing consistently with classmates and peers in college, I have luckily been able to grow into a more collaborative tutor. I would say that my tutoring style today matches best with "student-centered tutoring" from Chapter 4 of McAndrew and Reigstad's book. Overall, I have always felt very grateful for the tutoring opportunities that I've had because I find that tutoring is very beneficial for both the tutor and the tutee, which is why I am really looking forward to partnering with high schools this semester! I have attached an article about the benefits of tutoring for the tutor because I believe all students can benefit from having the opportunity to tutor. I particularly like the not-so-obvious benefits that they mention in the article!

This is a selfie collage about my journey in literacy!

Comments

  1. Drew LehmanFebruary 9, 2022 at 11:35 AM

    Hi Kim!

    I think it is great that you were able to come into college knowing you wanted to be a teacher and were able to take the steps prior to that to help set yourself up for that! I also realized that after reading the "What Tutoring Isn't" chapter that cheerleading is a huge issue that I, myself, has also come across. I think being a high school tutor, while being in high school, can lead to a lot of cheerleading because you don't want your peers to think you are mean. That's my guess at least!

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  2. Candance Doerr-Stevens (a.k.a. "dancing stylus")February 23, 2022 at 11:51 AM

    Kimberly, I really appreciate how you are able to discuss the importance and benefits of tutoring from both sides of the experience: both as writer receiving feedback and coach giving it.

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