Observation #1

In today's observation the student came in for grammar help. The tutor had this student plenty of time before so he knew what to expect from the student. The student showed the tutor a worksheet that he needed help with. The tutor asked the student multiple questions that the student had to answer with more then a yes or no to see what the student understood and what the student didn't understand. The tutor started of with showing him ways to remember the seven cordonats and dependent causes. Since this relates to subordants the tutor got a worksheet that might help the student understand subordants better. The student had an example but couldn't understand the word so the tutor asked him if he had an dictionary so he could look up the word. I was surprised to see that the student actually had a dictionary. The student still had a hard time figuring out the understanding of the subordants so the tutor gave him real life situations and examples for the student to understand and it worked. To make sure the student got it the tutor asked the student to write an example and break down the example for him in the best way possible. When the student wrote down the example the tutor saw what the student was doing wrong and was capable of correcting him right away. The student also had questions on coma split and run on's the tutor showed examples and asked questions and so did the student. The tutor showed the student how to break it down. He wrote two run on sentences in one sentence it was a run on sentence and in the other he used a coma plit and semi colon. Tutor showed student right from wrong when using a semi colon, coma's and joint sentences. Towards the end of the session he told the student to practice sentence combing the tutor realized that's one of his problems also so he gave him a worksheet on that so he can practice.  The student told the tutor he had a test later on that day and the tutor then told him to brush up on accents and keep coming to the writing center. The overall experience was very good. The tutor seems to know everything everytime the student had an question he had an answer. He communicated with the student very well, I like the chemistry they had amongst one another. I learned a lot from this tutoring session, mostly the do's on what to do during a tutoring session.