Hey guys I'm back! I will guiding you guys rough my first and
second observation in the writing center. The first time I had arrived there, I
was really nervous! To be honest, I have never stepped a foot in that room; I
have based by it a whole bunch of times but never went inside. Both of my
observations in the writing center were quite interesting.
In my first
observation the tutor had two tutee. I was familiar with this because my
classmates had shared some of their observations, so it didn't catch me off
guard. First he walked both girls into his little room. He didn't introduce
himself which I thought was rude. He went straight to asking what their paper
was on, but he asked one girl first. The basically ignored the other girl while
he was revising the girls paper. When he asked girl "A" what her
paper was on she handed him the assignment sheet and the guy made a comment
that it was boring. She also stated at she wanted him to check her grammar
errors and he responded to her to never come in here just to check grammar,
that he doesn't care about grammar. He had a point when he said that, I just
believe he could of been more generous. She handed him her writing piece and as
he was reading it he kept thinking out loud; for example he would say dam
that's harsh, wow, oh my god, and so many other things. In my opinion he
believe he should of kept those things to himself. While he was revising it he
would ask her if she was sure this made sense and if it didn't make sense he would
ask why and what would she do to fix it. I did like that method because he
didn't simply say this is wrong and write this and that. He would make sure
that she understood why it was wrong. In he middle of him revising, he went off
task because he started asking both girls if they had seen some show in VH1. I
believe that was wrong in his part because he was getting distracted instead of
revising the paper. The tutee said so my paper and he went back to revising.
When he finished revising the paper, he said I want to take a picture of this
and show my friends. From that moment on, it got awkward and the girl said I'm
leaving. He said wait, let me make sure you have everything you're suppose to
have for this assignment and he read over the assignment paper again just to
make sure. I believe his comment was wrong but it was good that he revised the
assignment sheet to double check she had everything. After that, the girl left
and he went to the next girl. The girl looked bored throughout half the session
where he was helping the other tutee. He asked her to explain what her
assignment was on because she didn't bring an assignment sheet. After she
explained he took her paper and started
revising. I found it weird how this part of the session he simply wrote on the
girls paper and said add this, take away this, and didn't explain to the girl
why it was wrong. He finished revising it and told her that her paper was great
and said bye. I felt weird leaving that session because a lot was going on. I
did learn a lot from this session though.
My second observation was even weirder! The
tutor had two tutee's in this session as well. The tutor introduced me,
herself, and both tutors to one another. I believed that was great from her
part because she made me feel comfortable, unlike in the other session. Then
the tutor asked the girl if she was okay and she started flipping over her math
class. I believe it was wrong for the tutor to continue the conversation in
math; the conversation literally went for 5-10 minutes. Those minutes were
wasted. The boy was just sitting there looking at the tutor and girl. After
that she goes to the boy and started reading his writing piece but didn't even
check his assignment sheet or asked what his assignment was on. I believe that
was wrong because the tutor should always have am idea on what the paper should
be on. She told him he had a lot of grammar errors and handed him two sheets. I
believe she did well in handing him two worksheets. She explained that he had
to do those sheets while she talked with the girl. Again the girl started
talking about math and the tutor kept talking back. Then the tutor goes back to
the boy to check that he is doing both work sheets and then explains sentence
structure and how his sentence structure isn't okay. After that, she goes back
to girl, because she went to her the
girl was using her phone. The tutor said let me see what you need help with and
the girl showed her what she had on her phone which was just the assignment the
professor gave her. The girl just needed help with understanding the
assignment. The tutor explained to her what she had to do and the girl said she
would come back to her on another session. The girl left and the tutor went to
the boy but the session had finished and told the boy that his paper was
great.
Overall both
sessions went okay. I learned a lot from observing these sessions to help me
when I do my own tutoring.
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