Monday, October 13, 2014

A successful tutoring session.

A Successful Tutoring Session
The key to a successful tutoring session starts with a tutor who is warm and inviting to their student. The student has feel comfortable around you, smile often and  crack jokes to break the ice, if you sense the student is shy or nervous. Introduce yourself politely keep the small talk to a minimum because the time in a tutoring session is limited. Ask the student some self assessment questions like what are your strengths and weaknesses as a writer?  This allows you to get an idea of what you need to help the student with in their writer. Be an active listener, you out have to listen to all the ideas your student has for the paper they want to write. Then you have to format their ideas the way the teacher wants for the paper. The tutor has to have a professional attitude and plenty of patience some people need lots of help due to language barriers so be mindful.
A good tutor prompts their students by guiding them in the right direction. Never just give the student the answer try your best to let them find it I out on their own. One way to prompt students to find their own mistakes is have them read their paper out loud. This helps ideas  to collaborate between the tutor and student, organization of ideas, editing grammatical mistakes and make sure the paper has a nice flow. When critiquing a student's paper it is important for every negative comment you make about a students find something positive that they did. Discouraging students writing will not inspire them to write they will doubt their writing abilities.

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