Webster - Goals and Planning

I plan for tutoring sessions by looking ahead to their future assignments to give myself an idea of ways I can relate their assignments to real life situations. For example, when working with Publisher to create a flyer tutees tend to wonder when they will use that in relation to their future career. I explain to them that creating stuff like that would come in handy for several different reasons such as creating something to advertise a yard sale, something for their church, selling a car, ETC. I also tend to give them a little mini-assignment or task to complete to show that they fully understand what we covered in our sessions. I do that mainly to show them that they are understanding the material and to alleviate some stress they were experiencing due to feeling hopeless. A lot of times, they surprise themselves. I help my tutees set goals by using their syllabus or an assignment checklist to represent how far they have come and what is yet to complete. The only difficulty I have ran into would be, when I first began tutoring I underestimated the time it would take to cover a set assignment because it actually took longer. I am much better about this now.