Tutees: Matthew and David Hong
Friday, September 18th 5-6PM
Tutoring multiple students was more difficult than tutoring only one student. I think a part of this was because I still treated the activity as a one-on-one, personal interaction. I started off the session with a reading passage on a Native American myth. I think this story was a great pick because it was interesting and took some critical thinking to understand what the passage was about. The students comprehension were both on point and had no trouble understanding the story. They did have some difficult with vocabulary terms, such as "clever" and "persistent." The former, I asked them to try to use context clues but they were unable, so I used the words in a better context than the story had used. Persistent was not in the story but was used as an answer to a vocabulary question. Similarly, I gave them context for them to understand the meaning. Persistent is easier to explain with examples than a definition or translation anyway. After the reading exercise, we did some vocabulary exercises from my first lesson plan, since Matthew had some trouble in this are in the writing exercise from the previous week. It seems when he is mindful about what subjects or verbs to choose he is better at this activity. It also may be easier to choose than produce a correct grammatical term. This tutoring session gave me a better perspective on how to utilize my time and how much time certain activities may take with disruptions.
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