Over the course of this term, I have learned several helpful techniques to incorporate in my own tutoring sessions. I’ve also learned about problems that can arise when tutoring and how to avoid making poor decisions. One of the best practices that I have learned is how to systematically address different problems a student is having with homework, by breaking assignments down into a more accessible format. When a student comes into a tutoring session and is overwhelmed with a homework assignment, helping them formulate an outline of what to complete with their assignment, helps set them up for success and lets them realize that they are capable of working through difficult problems. For instance, if a student brings in a poem and says that …show more content…
This personally happened during my mock tutoring session as a tutor when I didn’t understand Laurens questions and I was unsure how to go about helping her. This also seemed to be the case when I was the tutee with Lauren. When I asked her how I could improve various parts of my Drumlin Woodchuck essay, she had a difficult time answering my question. I think this issue has to do with lack of time, and that neither one of us were as prepared as we should have been. Also, during my tutoring session, I should have asked Lauren more questions, instead of letting the majority of our time be spent in silence, as I read over her paper. However, the majority of the time, the mock tutoring sessions flowed smoothly and the tutees and the tutors played their roles accordingly. The tutees would tend to act in a difficult manner and the tutors would try and figure out a way to help the tutee with their homework. This aspect of the sessions made them feel genuine and useful when taking notes on best practices and
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... Another one of the strategies that I have seen quite often is the disrupting student read-aloud. This has happened to me while teaching many times. I honestly most times thought that these children were causing a ruckus and interrupting because they had behavior issues. Now after reading this section I am much more aware that the instances I have encountered could have been just the child not understanding.
A Training Guide for College Tutors and Peer Educators by Sally Lipsky defines the role and importance of peer tutors’ on college campuses, the importance of promoting active learning, how to incorporate critical thinking and questioning skills, assessing students’ learning, collaborative learning and group work. Furthermore, this book defines tutoring as a proactive process, the value of diversity and students, online assistance, and a summary of effective peer lead sessions. One of the major strengths of this book is the learning activities throughout to assist peer tutors with their tutees. For example, the activity in Chapter 2 (Promoting Active Learning) has what the tutor may potentially hear
...roughout the session. “Good teachers are not born, nor are they made by tutors. They make themselves. Whats more, anyone can teach well. Research shows that there is no personality type that makes a good teacher. Whether you are a shy introvert or an enthusiastic extrovert, you can teach effectively, but only if you know how to learn from your mistakes and your successes”. (Petty 2009 pg.516 2009)
I have read three texts this year which share a common theme. In all the texts there is a group that experiences bad luck and develops their friendship. In the novel "The Cay" by Theodore Taylor has a main character who has bad luck.
When students are struggling academically and getting the tutoring they need their confidence boosted and they don't feel as overwhelmed. Confident learners tend to speak more and know how to get their point across. For those students who aren’t so confident, learning new material
With the advent of the Common Core standards and the new SAT exam, tutoring has taken on a new role. No longer can you teach the tricks to beat the test or exam, but instead you need to build
Reminisce for a moment, on that one teacher throughout your educational spectrum from elementary school up until your highest educational acquirement, who influenced your teaching aptitudes through deliberate, critical examinations of your course work. As students, we often deplore the tendency to call these teachers out in aid of our errors, often pretermitting the purpose of their examinations—, which is to correct our mistakes. Even the most efficacious educators undergo constructive evaluations, not to corroborate their blunders, but to highlight those blunders, and re-approach them in diverse ways until they are mastered. This is the true artistry of teaching that is, understanding that enhancements and improvements are always necessitous for the effectiveness of your instruction.
Be on time. You should honor a student’s time when you schedule a tutoring session. You may be the only person they can rely on for their academic and personal growth.
A teacher’s responsibilities are to ensure that every student gets the education that they deserve from a well-structured curriculum and materials. Within the teacher’s responsibilities a strong foundation of instruction has to be implemented, this is why instructional strategies are significant in a teacher’s career. The strategies for instruction vary from teacher to teacher; as a result there are no specific ways to employ strategies within instruction. The main purpose of this essay is to display knowledge of methods that are involved in teaching second language instruction for various ages and levels of students. This essay will also develop from the following components that methods and techniques are important to encourage tactical instructional strategies. These components are comprehensible input, feedback that is on-going, specific and immediate, grouping structures and techniques, building background and vocabulary development along with student engagement.
My teaching career has been spent learning how to provide appropriate support, guidance, patience, & understanding, as well as to enhance academic growth & success, for all students. My purpose as a teacher is to enrich and inspire the lives of young students with moderate/intensive needs by providing access to information instead of functioning as the primary source of information for students to flourish. My teaching methods will be to create an environment ripe with opportunities for discovery and exploration which will allow all students to learn at their own pace, generate questions and construct knowledge, while providing hands-on practice of skills in authentic situations as well as to make learning intriguing and meaningful to all students. Carefully planned and constructed learning environment will also allow the teacher more time to meet the individual needs of each student. Another important factor to a well-prepared learning environment is to facilitate learning, and providing students with balance and consistency (2004). Young students require a balance between various classroom dimensions, including activities guided by the teacher and independent work, quiet work and active work, gross motor and fine motor activities, and open and closed aspects to the curriculum and classroom materials (2004). Consistency is also a required condition for learner success. Schedules (daily and weekly), the enforcement of classroom rules, and student expectations should not be in flux but remain consistent. Without a sense of consistency in the classroom, school life would lack the necessary feeling of safety and reliability young children need to focus, to take risks, and to t...
First let’s take a look and evaluate the classroom by observation to see what need to be improved. One idea that came to mind was some teacher were using peer tutoring as a tool to get out of instruction, thus they were not paying sufficient attention to the students as they worked. The article titled: Using Peer Tutoring to Facilitate Access discussed the findings of this teaching strategy in all levels of learning and basics subjects. This strategy has been defined as one of best ways to reach the student. In comparison to Gusky’s ideas, there is a relationship between professional development and improvement in student learning. For improved student learning peer tutoring is higher achieving students being linked with lower achieving students to promote social enhancement and academic gains. There are three different kinds of peer tutoring; cross-age, peer assisted learning strategies, and reciprocal. Each kind was broken down and explained descriptively. The one that really stood out to me was the reciprocal tutoring. This was illuminating because the students are grouped together with two or more. They have ...
In this course I experienced an important change in my beliefs about teaching; I came to understand that there are many different theories and methods that can be tailored to suit the teacher and the needs of the student. The readings, especially those from Lyons, G., Ford, M., & Arthur-Kelly, M. (2011), Groundwater-Smith, S., Ewing, R., & Le Cornu, R. (2007), and Whitton, D., Barker, K., Nosworthy, M., Sinclair, C., Nanlohy, P. (2010), have helped me to understand this in particular. In composing my essay about teaching methods and other themes, my learning was solidified, my knowledge deepened by my research and my writing skills honed.
Over the course of observations, I learned that there is no one way to do anything in teaching. After a few weeks of observing, I was relieved because I thought that I could stop worrying so much about doing the “right” thing with the students. I saw a successful teacher doing, or neglecting to do things that went against what I had been taught. I incorrectly assumed that the choices the teacher made about how to organize the day, approach a lesson, or manage the classroom were mostly a matter of personal preference and that several approaches would produce equally desirable results.