Scenario 5:
Tutee: “I know that you are not
supposed to do my homework for me and that we are supposed to go over ideas
from the chapter rather than do the specific problems, but I am really short on
time tonight. It just takes so long to go over everything we go over and
then do the entire assignment afterward. We can do it your way for all
the other meetings, but can we do the actual homework problems just this once?
I would really appreciate it.”
I actually have been in this
situation several times. The best way I have learned to deal with this
situation is to explain to the student that no one ever said that it would be
easy. With that being said, I would also explain that it doesn’t have to be
hard either. I would remind the student of the expectations of both the tutor
and tutee and let them know that if I did the work for them that it would not
be helping them at all. I would allow the student to understand that what they
put into their work is what they get out of it, in other words if they want to
actually learn the material, then I cannot do it for them, they have to do it
for themselves. I would remind them that they are here in college for a reason
and that reason is to learn and to better themselves both as a person and intellectually.
I would also ask them if they had a planner. If not, then I would let them know
where they could get one or I would print one off for them so they could maybe
manage their time better. These strategies have always worked for both the
student and me.
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