Tutoring Experience
From preach to practice
During this tutoring experience I found myself actually enjoying helping another student put their thoughts and ideas on paper in a way that i would come across clear and sound to the reader. This student that I was paired with in professor Kozol ENG 99 class didn't have as much trouble in constructing her essay in the was that I imagined it to be. The little blue book given to her had been almost filled to capacity I myself was actually happy for her to have been able to write as much as she did. We went over as body paragraph to add more details in which the professor said she didn't include any.
My first instinct was to get her talking so she wouldn't feel uncomfortable. we took turns reading her essay paragraph by paragraph out loud and she was able to pick up on some of the mistakes she made in terms of speech. With English being her second language she did a really great job in constructing her essay. I felt like she needed to put a lot more details into her body paragraph and talk more in depth about how her boyfriend was lazy so I felt the best way for her to do this was to tell me exactly what made him lazy in her eyes. As she gave me examples on what made him lazy I wrote them down on a sheet of paper to give back to her at the end of the session so she can add more to the ideas she already had.
In another paragraph she spoke about how her parents shared the work load at home, but she didn't incorporate how they did this and what the benefits were for her or them, so I felt the need to encourage her to write more on this as well. How I got her to write more on how her parents split the work I asked her question about it to engage more conversation about it. She spoke about how her mom cooked and her dad cleaned which gave her mom and dad more time to spend with her and with them sharing the work it gave her more time with each other and it became less for her mom to do around the house.
The more and more depth I got her the more of her ideas I wrote on paper. This student was very intelligent and knew exactly what she needed to write about. Some trouble with details but, nothing to where it could not have been fixed within the session. Reading and writing ideas out loud is very helpful and engaging especially when coming across quite and shy people. It helps broaden their ideas and together it helps the tutor incorporate more ideas for the student to benefit their future in writing. I enjoyed tutoring this student very much and in my own career I can see myself transforming a student who is shy in writing and turning them into a writer who is not afraid of the paper and definitely not afraid of expressing themselves on paper.
My first instinct was to get her talking so she wouldn't feel uncomfortable. we took turns reading her essay paragraph by paragraph out loud and she was able to pick up on some of the mistakes she made in terms of speech. With English being her second language she did a really great job in constructing her essay. I felt like she needed to put a lot more details into her body paragraph and talk more in depth about how her boyfriend was lazy so I felt the best way for her to do this was to tell me exactly what made him lazy in her eyes. As she gave me examples on what made him lazy I wrote them down on a sheet of paper to give back to her at the end of the session so she can add more to the ideas she already had.
In another paragraph she spoke about how her parents shared the work load at home, but she didn't incorporate how they did this and what the benefits were for her or them, so I felt the need to encourage her to write more on this as well. How I got her to write more on how her parents split the work I asked her question about it to engage more conversation about it. She spoke about how her mom cooked and her dad cleaned which gave her mom and dad more time to spend with her and with them sharing the work it gave her more time with each other and it became less for her mom to do around the house.
The more and more depth I got her the more of her ideas I wrote on paper. This student was very intelligent and knew exactly what she needed to write about. Some trouble with details but, nothing to where it could not have been fixed within the session. Reading and writing ideas out loud is very helpful and engaging especially when coming across quite and shy people. It helps broaden their ideas and together it helps the tutor incorporate more ideas for the student to benefit their future in writing. I enjoyed tutoring this student very much and in my own career I can see myself transforming a student who is shy in writing and turning them into a writer who is not afraid of the paper and definitely not afraid of expressing themselves on paper.
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