Observation Assignment 4

As i walked into the tutoring session i was paired with the routine tutor and two other students. The tutor seemed very nice greeting her to self to me and letting it be known that i was observing the other students. The tutor begins by asking the student for the assignment and then begins skimming it quietly. After the tutor is finished reading the paper she begins to ask the student some open ended questions and the student begins responding based his own knowledge. The tutor uses collaborative learning and then asks the student what the subject or topic is, but the student is having some difficulties. What actually surprised me is then the teacher began using the three by five index card strategy and eventually helped the student find his subject. The student is curious to work on LOC's, but the tutor insists that the student fix his Higher Order Concerns before even touching on grammatical errors.

Some Flaws.

- The Tutor Often starts doing therapy, and talking about her life.
-Compliments the student too much and there by avoids the real problems.

Benefits
- The Tutor is very good at time management and takes both students into consideration.
-While one is being taken care of she makes sure the other student is improving on structure and the thesis.
- Very knowledgeable and has good communication with the students.
- Implements such strategies such as Index Cards and Speaking Out Loud.
- Shows concern for time, but wants to take her time going over everything even if it passes the time.