Thursday, December 4, 2014

3rd Tutoring Observation

In my third tutoring observation I had the opportunity to observe a tutor with two tutees. My first and second observation I was only able to observe one tutor and one tutee. The tutor started of with the girl and as he read her paper he said "One of the biggest issue here is that we have to work with your thesis and the structure of responses", the girl was working on a paper based on Martin Luther King. He asked to say her ideas in a different way and to write down on her notebook while he read the other guy's paper. As he was reading the guy's paper he recall that the guy had done lab with him. As he kept reading the guy's paper he said to him that his paper was more like a CATW format and  told the guy that from now on that had to change because he was in an ENG101 class. Throughout the whole session he kept going back anf forth from one student to another and he was able to manage his time correctly between both students. He will give one of the tutees an assignment while he worked with the other. During the session he noticed that both tutees were having the same issue in structuring their essays so he stood up and went to get a worksheet for them. He gave each one an Essay Map to better help them structure their essay. He asked them to write down their sentences on the worksheet. At the end both students had their worksheets full and he said to them, "You see how you wrote down a topic sentence and then you wrote down details to support that main point that's how you're both going to write you essay", and they did. The tutor praised the students for having a draft even though they had it wrong. The session was almost done and the tutor told the tutees type their essays and to come back tomorrow to see if they needed anymore revision. The tutor actually stayed with them for an extra 5-8 minutes to answer questions they had. 

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