My first TS was an observation of
PJ’s tutoring session with another TEFL student. She helped him with his
science homework. The topic was weather, specifically the climate in different
countries. First she had PJ read everything out loud, and then she asked him what
the question was asking for. Overall, she encouraged him to pay attention to the
details and not skip over anything. They often used the process of elimination
to find the answer, which I think is a good strategy. The tutor prompted him
without doing his work for him. She asked questions that led him to the answer,
for instance “Argentina is close to the Equator but it’s a very long country,
so what do you think the weather is like near the top of Argentina? What about
the bottom?” This is conducive to helping your tutee develop their own
problem-solving and critical thinking skills- like Prof Kim says, teach them
how to fish rather than give them the fish. She also made sure that he
understood why the correct answer was correct. I was able to pick up some good
tutoring skills from the observation.
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