Adrian Green - TS#16
Yesterday was my final tutoring session. I know, I was sad too. Anyways it actually went very well. I tried essentially fusing my teaching strategies with listening comprehension from my last 2 lessons; that of asking true/false statements and that of doing dictation.
We had already made it a ways into the book we were using (How the Grinch Stole Christmas) so for this session there was much less schema I needed to build before hand. We went through the lesson by listening to a relatively short segment after I explained some schema, both background information and vocab, that was necessary for it. Once we had listened to the segment I would ask my tutee to do some dictation of the material we had covered. Then, closer to the end of the lesson, I began asking my tutee true/false statements about earlier parts of the story or about characters and events in the story. He seemed to understand the majority of these but for a few of them it was necessary and helpful to go back and review segments.
I thought this was another rather productive session. However, as many of my recent sessions, it didn't wasn't particularly different from other lessons I've taught in terms of approach, exercises, and teaching strategy. I think one difficulty for me during these tutoring sessions has been keeping the classes varied and interesting with a student who is primarily just focused on listening and engages with the topic of listening far more readily than other types of learning practices. I suppose this was fine for this particular student, since it was definitely something he wanted to work on and could use work on, but it also didn't give me a huge amount of experience working with different teaching forms.
However all in all I am still very happy with the classes I was able to have with my tutee and I plan to use much of what I learned in them in the future.
We had already made it a ways into the book we were using (How the Grinch Stole Christmas) so for this session there was much less schema I needed to build before hand. We went through the lesson by listening to a relatively short segment after I explained some schema, both background information and vocab, that was necessary for it. Once we had listened to the segment I would ask my tutee to do some dictation of the material we had covered. Then, closer to the end of the lesson, I began asking my tutee true/false statements about earlier parts of the story or about characters and events in the story. He seemed to understand the majority of these but for a few of them it was necessary and helpful to go back and review segments.
I thought this was another rather productive session. However, as many of my recent sessions, it didn't wasn't particularly different from other lessons I've taught in terms of approach, exercises, and teaching strategy. I think one difficulty for me during these tutoring sessions has been keeping the classes varied and interesting with a student who is primarily just focused on listening and engages with the topic of listening far more readily than other types of learning practices. I suppose this was fine for this particular student, since it was definitely something he wanted to work on and could use work on, but it also didn't give me a huge amount of experience working with different teaching forms.
However all in all I am still very happy with the classes I was able to have with my tutee and I plan to use much of what I learned in them in the future.
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