For my first tutoring session I was paired with a girl who wrote an essay on illegal immigrants and whether or not they are good for the united states economy. Her paper was good for a first draft although she had a few grammar errors. We worked together on sentence structure because I noticed that she struggled with that. Her professor had already revised the paper prior to me reading her paper so I basically focused on what the professor asked for the assignment. Her professor wanted her to expand a little more on her second paragraph and to answer the "5 W's" who, what, when, where, why. After we did that we looked at her third paragraph in which she wrote about her own personal experiences and I suggested that she try to add a quote from the text to make a connection to what she was writing about.
Since this was my first tutoring experience I can say that it went pretty well. The girl I worked with was very sweet and kind. I made sure that I introduced myself before we began and had a small conversation about the class before starting the session. I wanted to have more of a student-centered session so that she could be as comfortable as possible with me I wanted to her to determine how the session would go. As a tutor I wanted to be an ear for her thoughts and ideas, I made sure to listen carefully and gave non critical advise and suggestions to help improve her writing. For my next tutoring session on Wednesday I will focus more on what the professor is asking for the assignment and not focus so much on correcting grammar errors in the paper. I may want to use the teacher-center strategy just so I can get the feeling of how it is to use these two strategies.
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