Observation #3

In today's observation the tutor had two students she had to work with. The first student wanted help with a take home test and she told him she can't help him with that. So he asked her to help him with grammar, simple progressives and past tense. This student is the same student that was in my first observation. He asks a lot of questions and the tutor answer them to the best of her abilities. While she is helping this student the other was just sitting there she never told the other student to reread his paper or anything but he started to do that anyways after a while. Student #1 and the tutor was still going on with their grammar lesson and she showed him examples on where to put period and comas.  The student didn't seem to quite understand what the tutor was saying so he would ask more questions and the tutor would still try her best to answer them and show more examples. Next they moved onto a homework assignment that the student had that he needed help with his grammar. In the homework she helped him with subject, verb and action verb and also commas and periods. While there doing that the other student is still patiently waitin ton his turn as he is waiting he decided he was going t go to the bathroom. Student #1 and the tutor continued to work on the assignment and he also had another problem with who's and what's with finding the subject. As they go through the assignment he tries to correct it before she does and when he is wrong she would correct him. After about 30minutes with student #1 they finally finished and she started to work with student #2. This student had a revision he wanted to work on. He pointed out also grammar and one paragraph that the professor was confused about that he wanted help with. She reads the paper to herself rather then reading it out loud. She starts off discussing a paragraph that wasn't quite clear so she asked him what does he mean. She told him he needs more detail or evidence to clear up the confusion. To show her where he got his information from he pulls out his laptop and show her. She reads the article and translate it for him so he can have a better understanding. After reading that she shows him where he can put more detail in his essay. The student wasn't quite being specific with things thought his essay so she told him he need to able be able to be specific and don't have the audience asking questions. The student took a quote from the source online and she told him he can take but then explain what it says, analyze the quote. He didn't know what else to say so she told him what to say but she also helped him fix it. She asked questions he answered, he asked questions and she answered. They were well communicating but they didn't get to finish fixing the grammar and the conclusion which was also quite confusing for the professor. Throughout this session I saw that she apwas more focused on student #1 and bately payed student #2 any mind. She basically made him wait till it was his turn. She was both student teacher learning and teacher student learning, with student #1 she focused on him and with student #2 she focused on what she wanted him to say. She showed me the pros and cons to a tutoring session even though she did help each student she didn't balance her time wisely.