For my second time tutoring I was chosen to help one student
with her paper on her views and ideas on Charter Schools. At first I introduced
myself to my tutee as I normally would and had her explain to me what her
assignment was about. After, I quickly skimmed through her paper and
immediately I noticed that her paper had a lot of grammatical errors but
instead on focusing on LOC’s I underlined just a few misspelled words just so
that she would have an idea on what to work on later on after the session was
over. My main focus was to help her focus on the assignment and what her professor
was asking for. Her thesis was pretty good but just needed some tweaking we
worked on that for about six minutes and began working on the structure of her
essay I recommended that she first explain what charter schools are about and their
history before giving her argument. She had
a few quotes that she related to some personal experiences which I loved that
she could connect to the quotes. For this
assignment my tutee did not have her paper fully written she only had a page
and a half. To avoid ending our session
a little earlier than expected I had her work on making a outline on the next
few paragraphs that she planned on writing as well as the conclusion. This way
all of her thoughts and ideas will not be forgotten when it came time for her
to finish her paper. For this session I believed I used more of a
teacher-centered tutoring session simply because of the fact that my student
was a little shy so in order to take control over the session and get the job
done I believed that this style would work best for us. I worked on HOC’s so
that we wouldn’t lose focus on the main purpose of the session but I did
underline a few LOC’s that I noticed just so that my tutee would not forget
about some of the grammatical changes that needed to be made. Overall my second
session went pretty well I did not have any complaints and I enjoyed this
experience.
