My Third observation session

The tutor that I got to observe this time was slightly different because she was tutoring two students at the same time. Her specialty is helping students with grammatical mistakes. The first impression I got from her was that she is a good tutor because she said she has been working with one of the students for a long period of time. Whenever she was having a hard time understanding the student she will suggest other words and explained the meaning of the words, and also to expand their English vocabulary. To help the students when they came into her office she had index cards put up on her wall so she can refer to them when she needed to. The second session happened to be the same student that was in the session the day before. As she explained to her anything about her paper she let the student know if she didn’t understand she can stop her and ask her. When she gave the student new words to use throughout the paper and the student didn’t comprehend she told her to always look up the meaning. The student told the tutor she didn’t want to read her paper out loud and the tutor told her it’s for her own good. That’s one way she will be able to recognize her own grammatical mistakes. She successfully helps her students and enjoys seeing them succeed. At the end of the session the student even asked if she was a teacher because she really helped her, and thanked her many times. 

                                        My second tutoring observation   

When I walked into the second observation I noticed he looked very sophisticated, and intelligent. He introduced himself to her and explained to her why I was in the room with them. i thought that was a nice gesture because most Students feel uncomfortable with me in the room. He first asked for the assignment, and he read the assignment out loud to her, so that they both were clear on what they were reading. He read her title to see if the title matched the title of her essay, I think it’s always important to pay attention to those things. While he read he made sure to make marks on the paper to go and discuss confusions with her. He also wrote notes to himself about the paper, this is a good strategy because that shows the student that you are there to help them and as a tutor you’re doing your best to do so. He was always specific on things that she needed to work on. One concept I did like was when he brought outside issues to help her with her topic better. There was a point during the session that the student asked for grammar help and eh explained to her that grammar isn't that important when writing a paper, that professor look for the more complex things like structure, organization and a clear thesis. But he gave her a suggestion that by reading out loud she would recognize her own grammatical mistakes. 

      In ENG 220 class we had a group project, this group was not an ordinary group project, we had to make our own video about tutoring. We were put in groups and we had to figure out our title it could have been anything that you thought was interesting related to the class topics. Also come up with scenes for the video, and the message that we wanted to send to the audience. Each individual had their own task to worry about. My team and I chose to write about "why writing centers do have rules". Each of us had one scene to think about, in our video we had three different scenarios of our choice.So we filmed all the things that would happen if there weren't rules in writing centers like the use of cell phones, the "therapy" session , and why studying other than a quite place is not a great idea. we chose this topic because we think its important for students to understand why tutoring and studying spaces have rules that they have. I think my group members and I were effective because we related it to events that would happen we did exaggerate a bit but it was to make the video humorous , for example who does not have a phone now a days and always want to be on it? everyone, but in our video we show how that can be a major distraction. Also we show how studying in different locations is a distraction, and we also show that some students will get so comfortable with the tutor that will fall out of track. These all are events that are possible to happen. I think the audience will understand why tutoring spaces should be respected, because not every student can study the same. For example while walking in campus I see students studying out in the courtyard, and I'm the type of student that won't be able to concentrate in that environment.