Saturday, October 4, 2014

My Second Observation

I went to my second observation on Monday September 29, I was so amazed from my first observation that I went in hoping that'll be the same, but it wasn't.
My second observation I observed a student that had to go to The MOMA and write about an art work she saw. The tutor made the student feel welcomed but she sound so happy about it or maybe that's how she speaks either way the student looked as if she didn't want to be with her; she had requested another tutor but got stuck with her. The student showed a picture of the art work to the tutor and she responded, "let's see if the art work matched the description you have on your paper". She told the student that she has to make sure that her writing has to always be written for others to read. As the tutor was reading the student's draft, she kept mentioning grammatical errors. Spelling was the main one and subject verb agreement. The tutor gave the student a mini lesson of how to use the verb have, since the student's first language is French the tutor gave her examples in French and told her that French is not the same as English so for her not to write like that (she was mean). She even told the student that she had to go back to the Writing Center for a lesson on subject verb agreement. She praised the student for some sentences she had. Once she finished reading her paper she said to just correct those little errors and that's it she ended the session. The session was only about 40 minutes long, the student as I mentioned before didn't seemed that she wanted to be there so she just left without asking any more questions.

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  1. Thanks for sharing this. Where are observations 3 & 4?

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