Allie Qiu
Writer
Projects: Education
Community Through Friendship: A Literacy Tutoring Program for Adult Refugees
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Tucker Grimshaw and I brought together literature & theory from the areas of community literacy, disability studies, TESOL, and trauma-informed pedagogy to formulate design principles and the beginnings of a tutor handbook for a one-on-one tutoring program.
Journey to El Yunque: An Ecology Unit for Sixth-Grade Spanish
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Dr. Steven McGee mentored me as I brought his Journey to El Yunque curricular materials into a new context: the dual language continuation classroom for bilingual students of Spanish. Check out a summary of the project here.
Critical Pedagogy in the Writing Center
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Rachel Whitaker and I led tutor training with the purpose of supporting both tutors and student writers in critical thinking and use of inclusive language. Here is one of the resources that we designed for tutors.