Thursday, March 15, 2012
Hurley-Planning for tutoring sessions and making goals.
At each tutoring session, I look at the tutee's syllabus for the upcoming assignments and try to formulate a plan that will go along with the students next assignment. One thing that I wish I would have been told was that students do not like to read as much as I do. Reading the textbook is one of the goals that I want one of my tutees to focus on. I tried to show him that reading is not that bad. I also showed him that if he reads the homework questions before reading the chapter, it will make the reading much more easy and his homework easier also.
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It seems like those active reading skills are some of the most important to learn, for just about any subject. Taking notes during reading, making notations in the book, putting stickies in the book as bookmarks, these are all tips I think every tutor should try to teach. Whatever it takes to get the student to think about what they are reading and make connections with it.
ReplyDeleteI agree entirely, I try to stress to my tutees that it is okay to write in the textbook and highlight important parts/key words if they need to.
DeleteI think your comment is funny.
ReplyDeleteI believe we have all learned this at one time or another working with the tutees, just because we think something is fun does not mean they will. I feel this is where alot of the problem lies which is why somebody needs tutoring in the first place. First they don't like the subject matter or have this predetermined notion that they are not good at it. Second because of this they may try to find the easy way out by skipping over reviewing the material they need to and then wonder why they did not do well on their assignments. It is all a catch 22.