ABOUT CENTER MOVES

Center Moves: A Peer-Reviewed Archive of Tutor Training Materials seeks to support and facilitate communication and community among writing and learning center administrators and tutors by developing a peer-reviewed archive of materials, updated biannually, that new and continuing administrators can draw upon and contribute to as their tutor education and training programs develop and evolve. 

Goals and Purpose

As writing and learning center administrators, we recognize the value of providing high-quality training to our tutors to ensure they have the necessary skills and knowledge to support all writers effectively. We also know that we rarely have opportunities to learn how other administrators conduct training; because of this, administrators, at all stages of our careers, often do not have significant support or models for the “moves” of tutor training and education. 

The purpose of Center Moves is to serve as an archive of peer-reviewed lesson plans and materials, grounded in scholarship, theory, or praxis, that administrators and tutors can use and modify to train new tutors and to support ongoing professional development for existing tutors. This archive will allow writing center administrators and tutors to share and access lesson plans that offer a variety of new topics, tools, methods, materials, activities, and resources for training tutors with varied ranges of experience to work with writers at all levels.

Center Moves is published and housed by the Rocky Mountain Writing Centers Association (RMWCA), a regional affiliate of the International Writing Centers Association (IWCA).

Current issue

Issue 5: Helping Writers and Writing Across the Curriculum & Checking in with Writers

Archived issues can be found under the Center Moves menu button at the top of the page.