Benefits of Workshop Series to
Students,
Faculty, and Staff
Developmental English Learning Center
Weber State University
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9-topic workshop series. Each topic taught for 1 week.
Taught 24 times/week, 25 minutes per session.
Includes pre- and post-tests for all sessions.
Scripted by me with tutors, faculty, & LYSK and taught
by tutors through a scaffolded training process.
• Materials posted on conference site and at
weber.edu/delc.
• Will discuss
– Theory and research behind our choices.
– Benefits to students, faculty, and staff.
– “How to” of workshop process.
Curriculum + Tutoring
• DE Learning Center dedicated to supporting DE
Department and curriculum.
• Tutoring required in order to teach students to
use services, but tutoring only mandatory 3
times.
• DELC mostly quiet.
• Course became hybrid in 2010. Workshops a way
of giving f2f support to students and faculty
moving online.
• Grammar taught as part of the course. We can
help.
Showing up for Students
Theory & Research
BENEFITS TO STUDENTS, FACULTY,
AND TUTORS
Benefits to DE Faculty
Benefits to tutors: Tutors created scripts and
helped devise and revise the workshop process.
Benefits to Tutors/Program
IC/DC Ring Words
Picture of Frodo and Samwise omitted here.
Fragments workshop example
i cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I
was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan
mnid Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde
Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in
a word are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist
and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a
taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm.
Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey
lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Amzanig huh?
yaeh and you awlyas thought slpeling was ipmorantt
Tutor Feedback
Tutor
• 1) This is probably one of the biggest benefits of having workshops
as part of what we do: the fact that it has benefitted ME. I, myself,
am much more confident about my own tutoring and my own
knowledge. Having to stand up and explain grammatical principles
to entire groups of people has translated into my being more sound
in both my delivery and my understanding in explaining it to the
individual writer.
Teamwork-wise, the teaching of workshops has brought us all
together as colleagues. We laugh more, know one another more,
and have learned to trust one another with the passing on and the
receiving of the baton, so to speak.
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Lab Aide Feedback
Benefits to DE Students
Student Survey Comments 
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Learning Outcomes!
See workshop data file on workshop materials page.
WORKSHOP PROCESS
Times & Duration
See Schedule of Workshops and Tutoring on DELC home page.
Color coding helped organize.
See workshop Times and Procedures on the DELC homepage.
Each Workshop Session
The 25-minute workshop has begun,
and no further participants may join us
at this time.
Please see the lab aide
for further support.
Students
Tutors
Faculty
Documents for Process
Lessons Learned
Sources
weber.edu/delc
clairehughes@weber.edu