Week 3 & 4 Observation

Well I'm back to let your guys know how my other observations went, I did my observations three and four this time.

            In my third observations the tutor had only on tutee. This made the session different because usually the tutors I had observed, would have two tutee's. The guy had already handed his paper to his professor and was already graded. The tutee just wanted to know what went wrong. I believe this was great from his part to want to know what he did wrong. The tutor first looked at the feedback the professor had gave the tutee. The tutee didn't speak fluent English. I noticed that the tutor wasn't comfortable because of that, which made hate tutee not feel comfortable. The tutor kept making changed on the guys paper and the tutee just looked confused because he didn't know why the tutor kept making those changes. After he made the changed he told the tutee that he should just change his whole paper because it didn't make sense. I thought that it was mean from his part because the guy seemed so confused. The tutor just stood there quiet for about three minutes and was using his phone and was texting. I believe that it was rude. After that he tells the tutee just to make changes and leaves the little room and leave the tutor and me inside. This was one weird experience but I learned what not to do in my own tutoring session.

            In my fourth session it was okay. The tutor had two tutee's. I felt like he was saying unnecessary comments to both the tutee's; he kept assuming that the girl wasn't born here and that the boy didn't understand English so he kept talking slow for the guy to "understand". I know both the girl and boy felt uncomfortable, in result made me feel uncomfortable. He told boy of the tutee's that he works five minutes with one tutee and five minutes with the other tutee. He started working with the girl. He asked her what her paper was on and then he started revising the paper. He had also asked what she believe was wrong with it because if you come to the writing center there must be something wrong. The girl said she wanted him to revise past and present tense words. He made a commenting assuming that all Hispanics have trouble with that. It might be true or not but I feel like he should of not said that. After that he went to the boy and asked him what the paper was on and started revising it. The tutor was more serious with the boy than with the girl; he was a bit flirty with the girl. He didn't say much about the paper of both. He just gave a few suggestions. He did go off topic a couple of times which resulting that he didn't finish revising neither paper. He finished revising half of each paper. I believe that he should not make assumptions and should not get off topic because at the end of the session he was supposed to help the tutee's with their writing piece but he just helped them half way and to top it off both assignments were just one page and half double spaced, so imagine that!

            I learned a few things in these sessions, which makes me kind of nervous about started my own tutoring session.