The student who came in today was concerned with revising an essay that he had previously turned in. It was an approximately 700 word descriptive essay that discussed something that was important in the students life. It seemed the student was having more trouble with sentence level structures rather than organization. With this in mind, we began to help him weed out his awkward sentences, often having him read them outloud. There were certain segments of the paper that we suggested be completely changed to improve clarification and cohesiveness of the sentences. The student was very receptive to our help, and seemed to be understanding the points we were making. I feel the session was beneficial to his revision.
I was particularly surprised how quickly the session ended, and how little it seemed that we could accomplish in the time we were given. The student only had half an hour, so the session began at 2:00 and ended promptly at 2:30. Even so, I feel the start we gave him was definitely beneficial.
One final point I would like to make, is that the tutoring 'training', so to speak, we received helped a lot. We made sure that it was the student doing his own work, which actually seemed to help encourage his own thought process based on our suggestions. Additionally, he had a lot of awkward sentences, that when read aloud, it became apparent to him why they were awkward. It also helped us get the session underway quickly. We began by asking what the assignment was about, what he needed help with, we read the paper and then went straight into helping the student.
posted by Rich @ 11:42 AM
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