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As a teacher, I focus heavily on using various forms of communication as tools for learning, modeling effective communication strategies in the classroom, and learning collaboratively. Because I had up to 25 students in a given class, taking this approach enabled me to support student learning on a larger scale. When in the classroom, I was not teaching a single student at any given time. Instead, my class activities had to target the group as a whole while allowing room for individual development. This often meant that the class activities were a bit more generalized in scope so that each student could find an entry point to the material. However, another important facet of my teaching that lies outside of the group dynamic of the classroom involved conferencing with students in one-to-one meetings. Yet, this was often the most challenging part of my teaching as I struggled with engaging students on an individual level in a face-toface situation. This is where tutoring comes in, because while serving as a graduate consultant I often found myself in one-toone tutoring consultations. Tutoring gave me valuable insight on how to navigate one-toone meetings with students on improving their communicative techniques. Further, teaching prior to tutoring heavily shaped the role I viewed myself as having as a tutor: the tutor is not the evaluator of the communicative text or the student’s skillsetin composing such texts. Instead, the tutor  \nserves as a guide for facilitating student awareness and, consequently, student development, of their own communicative practices.  \nLev Vygotsky (1978) presented the idea of the zone of proximal development, which considers where students are in their development, and where they are capable of going with support. As a teacher, I scaffold and structure the class in an effort to provide support for moving students from where they are presently to where they are capable of being. However, inevitably some students struggle in a larger classroom setting and need additional support, and this is where I saw myself as a tutor fitting in. Tutoring helps to fill the gap in a student’s skillset on an individual level with the hope of the student better succeeding in the course. In other words, tutors work within the zone of proximal development to support student learning. To accomplish this as a tutor myself, I adapted 3 practices from my teaching in order to better support students in my tutoring. As I learned more about communication center theory, I was able to further refine these practices based upon findings from existing research (e.g., Bird, 2012) .  \n1. Start by skimming student texts and identifying areas I believe are in need of improvement. This is in addition to asking the student the areas they feel they are struggling. Asking students about the areas they feel they are struggling is crucial for helping the students to  \nfeel like their concerns are being heard, but it is also very important for making an effort to pinpoint the gaps in their knowledge.  \n2. Teach students how to find and use resources to help them when they are struggling, such as navigating the resources the communication center provides or style guides. I have often heard that students are aware that resources are available, but they are unsure of how to get the information they need from theresources. By taking the time to teach a student how to use aresource, the tutor is equipping that student with crucial knowledge for being able to navigate a particular resource and question in the future.  \n3. Don’t give students the answer.  \nUse questions or directive statements to engage students in a conversation to help them come to a conclusion through collaboration. 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