October 2nd 2013 at 10:30 am I arrived in room B200, the writing center. It was full of impatient kids waiting to be tutored. I sat there waiting for a session to begin so I could join in and observe. After 15 min. Everyone was assign to a tutor. I was with a young man who had two Tu Tees. I was excited to see how that would work out because that seems hard to me. I introduced myself to the the tutor and he introduce me to the tutee's. He told them not to worry and that I was there to observe him and not them. After that was settle. He ask the young gentlemen what was he problem. The tutee stated that he finish his paper, but he didn't believe it was a good one and needed him to look over it. The young later who's being observed was done with her paper and had her's graded but felt she could of done better so that was her purpose of being there.
Don't s
1. Never do the work for them
2. Never put your tutee paper down
3.Do not brush them off if they are talking
4. Don't be in a rush to run out on your tutee
5. Don't share your personal business
6.. Don't have an attitude
7. Don't put professors down in front of Tutee
8. Don't push their thoughts aside
9. Don't have tutees's waiting a long period, if there is two tutees being tutored
Do's
1.Welcome the tutee to the writing center and give ....your name a
2. Always show that you appreciate your title and come in with an open smile to tutor
3. Good body language is needed so that the tutee won't feel discourage
4. Look your tutee in the eyes
5. Show interest to your tutee's papers
6.Never leave your tutee waiting for a l7. speak slow and take your time when explaining
8. ways incourage your tutee to do beter
9.continue to be of helping service when needed
10.help them come up with stratgies and structue
11. Praising your tutees
12. Showing them the right path on doing a paper
13. proper clothing
14.being punctuational
15. shake there hands then ask when will they be back and give them your nyunber and your hours the you available\
make sure the setting is perfect with necessry thinks like pencial, eraser for stdunts
Tutoring do's and don'ts.
ReplyDeleteWe have some of the same do's and don'ts in our blogs. However, I learned a lot more from your blog. I like when you said proper clothing because it can serve as a distraction for students and take away their attention from their work. Don't put professors down is also a good one because it creates judgment that can lead to the tutee's lack of respect for their professor. It is also not appropriate for the session because that is not what tutoring is all about. Don't have tutee's waiting a long period, if there is two tutees being tutored. I also experienced a situation like this myself and saw that a tutor should also time manage their session appropriately when they are with two tutees. As people wait, they may become and lose interest in seeing the tutee.
However, I don't quite agree when you sat that you should give them your number and so on. I believe that you might come across to pushy. I think you should allow the student to freely decide if they want your number. You should also compliment your tutee but not necessarily praise them. two much praise might seem that they don't need correction.
Overall, this was pretty good and I learned some new do's and don'ts in tutoring.
Good list! But I do agree with Keisha that you don't need to give them your number--or even offer it!
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