Breanna TS #8

Date/Time: 5/20/16 3:30 PM

Location: Books-A-Million

Topic/Skill: Pronunciation and the Four Stages of Learning/Competence

Feedback provided to tutee: Ki and I continued our usual tutoring habits. However I’ve noticed I have been correcting the same words/sounds from tutoring session to tutoring session. In order to combat this, I thought it might be beneficial to bring up a concept I once learned in a psychology class. The concept is commonly called the Four Stages of Learning or the Four Stages of Competence. I related it how to Ki did not know he was mispronouncing the word “professor,” so he was in the unconscious incompetence stage of the model. When he became aware of his incompetence, he transitioned into the conscious incompetence stage. Now he is beginning to consciously practice saying “professor” instead of “propessor” in his everyday speech, thus entering the conscious competence stage. And one day, he will no longer have to focus on saying “professor,” it will happen unconsciously. Therefore, he will be in the unconscious competence stage. After he saw this theory of learning, it seemed to really click with him that he needed to practice his conscious incompetencies outside of our tutoring sessions now on.

Lesson(s) about tutoring and/or the tutee you learned: This tutoring session showed me students are not always going to practice on their own. We as teachers have to be resourceful and find ways to make the content click with the student. When we have the opportunity to work one-on-one with them we have to take advantage of it and find the thing that is going to make them study when we are not around.