Knight - Module 10

Part 1: A few ways that I use to study include: good note taking, solving all the homework problems plus extras, reading the textbook, summarizing what is being read, and review old tests. These skills will help a tutee with their studying because they incorporate many different techniques that help remember what is being learned. Taking good notes might not seem like a study skill but if you think about it when you go to review the notes they need to be readable or you won’t be able to understand what you did. Solving all homework problems and extra allows you to get extra practice in. This practice will help to make sure that you fully understand what you have learned. Reading the textbook and summarizing what you have learned helps give you something to look at and allows you to get a different view on what you learned. Finally reviewing old tests allows you to prepare for future tests because it lets you see what type of questions will be on the future tests.

Knight - Module 8

Some of the take-aways is to paraphrase a long answer, use a student’s response to lead to the next question, and wait for a second or two to make sure you have heard all of the student’s response. The first allows you to analyze what the student said and makes sure that you fully understand what is being stated in the student’s answer. The second allows you to use the students own words to help the student get a better concrete understanding of what they are learning. The last take-away helps to make sure that you hear all of what the tutee is saying without you interrupting them. One thing that I would have a problem with is focusing on the student rather than what is coming up next. I usually think about what is the next step in tutoring and I think that cuts some of my attention from the tutee. This is a problem that I am working on.

 

Knight - Module 9 Tutoring Situation

One tutoring situation that I had this week involved me explaining how to solve a math problem. I used the Problem Solving Techniques because I was helping the student solve a problem. What I did is I started at the beginning. I listed all the important information in the question that he would use when he goes to solve the problem. I labeled the information so that he could understand where I would place each number in the formula and then I wrote down the formula that I would use. From there, I began to solve the problem in steps. Each step I would explain what I did and even wrote down what I was doing on the paper. This helped him to understand what I was doing and how the problem can be solved. What I would like to do for the next session is to have handouts that will help the student set up his problems in the future. This will allow him to have something to look at when he goes to work on future problems and will give him a reference for when he gets stuck on a tough problem.