My second tutoring experience was as exciting as I imagined it. Disregarding my anxiousness I stepped into the room confident and ready to expand and share my knowledge.
The student who focused on the necessity of jobs being understanding of parents really made me feel right at home. I feel this topic was to my benefit because I was allowed to give feed back based on my personal experiences, meanwhile I had the opportunity to advice him and learn about why this topic became so personal to him.
We talked about the topic and then discussed the professors comments. As we started working on bettering his writing, I decided to make it an activity, where he would point out his topic sentence, introduction to evidence and the actual evidence. This became our three step method in each paragraph. As his professor had commented, he was missing introduction to evidence in every paragraph.
Once we worked along with our three step method I began to ask him about his examples of evidence and why he had chosen them. Evidently, he felt a personal connection to his writing and the topic. He talked about his personal experiences with his parents as a young child. He explained to me that when he was younger once his school day was over he would go to his grandmothers house where he would stay until one of this parents would pick him up. I think this was an essential part to his essay because he has a personal understanding of the topic.
The one thing I didn't like about this tutoring session was the fact that my student was texting while I was looking over his paper. Every chance our eyes didn't meet he was looking over his messages.
As a tutor I expect respect from my student.
I can honestly say I love tutoring now more than ever. I have the opportunity to help a student in need. Even though I've only tutored college students twice I feel a connection to what my career is going to be like. The strategy that I found myself using in this tutoring session was Nutshelling and Teaching, which consist of making decisions about major and minor ideas, orally explaining, and role playing the ideas we came up with. This strategy is based on explaining, negotiating, and teaching. My advice to my student was to organize his ideas according to what is being asked.
