Tutoring Session 3/27

In this tutoring session she focused more on LOC's due to the professors strict guidelines. He wanted the students to focus more on their grammar and sentence structures. She spoke a little too low but  I was still able to hear what she was saying. I really liked that when the student did not understand something she would use multiple examples so that he understood. It started off as a teacher-centered session and then it turned into collaborative learning. The student came in very frustrated and felt very defeated. He was working on his 4th draft and his professor marked the entire paper with negative comments. She assured him that it was going to be ok and that she had dealt with students who've had that professor and she was confident that she was going to get him through it. She told him that he had great ideas. She joked around with him and explained that even she has had moments where she had multiple drafts and wanted to scream. The tone she used made it more of a joking/easy going matter. To experience that was such an honor; such a moment like that was very encouraging for myself. It gives me inspiration for the future when I tutor students and I make their day better by simply helping them with their paper. I forgot to mention that before I was assigned to her session she sat across from the student (far), instead of beside the student. It was not until I was sent to her session that she moved next to the student. I recall the tutoring writing book that spoke about body language and how important it is. I felt that, that specific detail was key because as a tutor they should be involved.

Tutoring session 3/26

The tutor I observed was very good but he was very authoritative. It was more of a teacher-student session. They focused mainly on the works cited page since that was what the student requested. I guess in that case it is ok for the teacher to take over the session because the student had no idea on how to cite their work. What I really liked was that the tutor had a works cited manual with him for things he was unsure of. He was not afraid to admit that he was unsure of something. Overall the student took a lot out of the session. They did focus a little on the paper and due to the use of terms that he did not understand but overall he got the main idea of what the student was trying to write. They focused on LOC's and they ended the session. It was great because after the session the tutor asked if I had any questions and he helped out a lot with my confusions and curiosities. It was a good session overall. :)