Today, we observed a teaching session with our future child tutee, J.P.
The session was started with a reading comprehension homework assignment. The tutor had the tutee read the passage and then answer the comprehension questions.
Then, this was followed up with writing comprehension. The tutor discussed what topics, main ideas, and supporting details were in a paragraph. He played a video that explored these ideas, and then used the text book to further the understanding.
Some tips that I thought of while observing the session:
- instead of sitting beside the student, maybe try sitting in front to better the lack of eye contact
- let the student finish talking, and after completing their thought, then correct them.
- also allow a sufficient student to teacher talking ratio
- have good reaction and give praise often
- let student sound words out and then get them an immediate response instead of correcting them right away
- turn your phone off and keep it away unless stating a short break time.
- ask student if there are any questions frequently.
Wonmi, how old was your child tutee? I am curious because I am supposed to be tutoring a six year old boy. I wonder if you got any indication of, or could give any advice about, how to deal with a young child's attention span, or not, from your session. --Charlene
ReplyDeleteHi Charlene! I apologize for not giving the student statistics! He is age 10 in 4th grade.
DeleteHe was very, very attentive to the teacher. There were times where he seemed to focus out, but only for a few seconds before he was back into the material. The teacher seemed to notice this, when the student would stray away, and would ask questions, or ask him to read. Hope that was helpful!
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