Date/Time: May 13,
2016 4:45
Location: Library
Topic/Skill: Homework
help
Feedback provided to
tutee: Throughout the lesson my tutee struggled focusing on his reading
so I told him it might be better if he broke down his reading in to smaller chunks.
Meaning that rather than trying to summarize a page or a complete section from
his book he should instead try to break it down into paragraphs, making the
assignment seen a little more manageable while at the same time likely coming
out with more details from the reading.
Lesson(s)
about tutoring and/or the tutee you learned: For this lesson David brought his
own assignment in, a research project on the challenger space shuttle. David
didn’t provide any sort of rubric or written explanation from the teacher as to
what was expected from the assignment. Unsure what to do I decided to just
gather some books on the topic and help him get started with the general
details and background on the subject. Throughout our session David would get
bored with the reading and often wander off track trying to strike up
conversation every few paragraphs. To combat this I first tried reading to him
hoping that he would help be able to focus better, but his concentration and
effort level remained for the most part unchanged. I later suggested that he
tried to read himself and this time after each paragraph simply describe to me
what it was he just read. Working off of his chatty personality this seemed to
greatly improve his engagement in finishing the reading.
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