Observation #2

In today's observation it was quite different then my first observation. This student came with a revised essay. The first thing the tutor did was read the revised essay to herself. Then she pointed out the LOC's. She pointed out the font size was to small it need to be 12 font instead of 10.5. She also discussed his headline like it said eng101 without a space she says that needed a space between eng and 101. The student had a period between his first and last name and she told him to remove the period from his name. She was very funny though she said it very nicely. She reads the paper to herself and when she sees something wrong or don't understand she points it out and ask the student questions. She tells him what to use and what not to use in his paper. When she saw a sentence she didn't quite understand she asked the student to read it out loud to see what was wrong. She looks back and fourth at the graded paper and the revised paper to compare and to see what the teacher told him to fix. As they went along through the paper together she showed him grammar problems. She politely excuse herself from the table to get her asthma pump since she kept cough and fanning herself. But when she got back it was back to business. When correcting sentences she asked the student if this is what he meant and for him to explain it to her. He explained it better to her then when he wrote it on the paper. She also told him say what you mean to say don't sugar coat it. She did drift off topic to the students culture but then went back to the paper. She did give him credit on the paper and how he revised it. The student kept doubting himself and she kept telling him he was fine and he fixed everything. She told him when he gets home he can read it out loud and see for himself that everything was good. Also if anything retype it with the corrections they made today and come back to the writing center. She did mostly teacher centered tutoring. I consider this session to be what you do not do at a tutoring session.  She was very nice and did her job even though she did mostly teacher centered. She told us she been tutoring for a while so she knows what she is doing. After the session she pulled me and one of the students from the class aside since we observed her together and she gave us some advice which was to pay attention to everything no matter what. She also asked us if we had any questions and what we learned or what we liked from the session. I mainly liked how concerned she was of the student and how she kept telling him he was doing fine even though he kept doubting himself. She was a good tutor I learned a lot of do's and don'ts on what to do when I tutor.