Hi PPTs & PTTs,
Periodically, I'll be posting some professional development articles/websites about tutoring & teaching and how to be a better tutor / teacher on this BLOG for all of you to read. After you have read it, I would like for you to write me a reflection comment (one paragraph minimum) on the "comment" link of the assigment posting to let me know your thoughts on the matter and also, it will serve as a way to help you grow professionally as a tutor and teacher. The comment section also helps us to show evidence that you are being trained and updated as a Tutor and Part Time Teacher
Your first article to read will be "Give a man a fish..." on the left hand column. Please write your reflection under the comment section of this post. Your assignment will be due on 9/2. Would you write your initials at the end of each of your comments please.
freeman
Periodically, I'll be posting some professional development articles/websites about tutoring & teaching and how to be a better tutor / teacher on this BLOG for all of you to read. After you have read it, I would like for you to write me a reflection comment (one paragraph minimum) on the "comment" link of the assigment posting to let me know your thoughts on the matter and also, it will serve as a way to help you grow professionally as a tutor and teacher. The comment section also helps us to show evidence that you are being trained and updated as a Tutor and Part Time Teacher
Your first article to read will be "Give a man a fish..." on the left hand column. Please write your reflection under the comment section of this post. Your assignment will be due on 9/2. Would you write your initials at the end of each of your comments please.
freeman
17 comments:
I found this article very helpful in many ways. After working with Kumon students for a while I would assume that they knew the basics of mathematics. I can't assume that at the high school. I now know how to approach/tutor the high school students without knowing what they know and don't know.
I agree when a student is able to explain their work then they truly understand what they are doing. All we have to do is ask open ended questions when figuring outproblems. In a way it would make the students feel better and become more independent when they are able to accomplish problems by themselves rather than having the tutors do everything for them
--E.T.
I found this article to be very helpful and insightful on how to be a better tutor. I strongly agree with the section based on using reinforcements. All throughout elementary school and all the way through high school, I appreciated when my teacher’s would notice my improvement. It let me know as a student that I was doing something right and being acknowledged for it. It boosted my confidence and made me work even harder. I think it’s important for tutors to notice the accomplishments of their tutee.
Also, I thought the last section of the article brought up good points. Many times, while working at Kumon, I assumed that because I was the tutor I had to do the thinking for them. But as the article mentions, “Don't do the thinking for them. The more independent they become, the better tutor you are.” Just that little piece of information opened my eyes to see how I can be a better tutor by helping the students to be more independent. I hope to use the information provided in this article to help the students at Waipahu. Thank you for a great read!
- C.P.
This article made me see how I could correct my errors as a tutor and help the tutee to be a little more independent. The article also given me some tips as to changing the way how I teach so that it would be better for the tutee to learn.
And it's true, that it is both a learning process not only for the tutee, but for the tutor as well. At times I try to help and teach students about what I was taught while growing up with math. And it's really a joy seeing them learn the way that I was.
"Anonymous said" = N. G.
For me, it is hard to know what level every student is on and how to go about helping them. Do I let them try the problem and correct them as they go along? Do I show them what to do and hope that they understand? This article helped with that.
Reading this article has opened my eyes to some new concepts and reinforced others. This article was full of good suggestions and will help me out with my tutoring skills.
I found the section about silence was the most useful. I have been stuck in many a situations where I ask a question and 10-15 sec. go by and nothing is said. Now I think that I will try and be more patient and wait to see, if just a little while longer, if the tutee can come up with anything before I try to explain things to them. Hopefully, I get more answers to questions that I ask.
-D.I.
This article was very enlightening for me. I remember when I first started tutoring. I wasn't sure exactly what to say. I found myself looking for strategies to help the students. After a while i found which strategies work and which don't. For example, the article says to ask questions; which is something I always found very effective. I have also dealt with the awkward silence from a student. But it's important to not give up on your tutee. Clarifying and asking more questions help to guide them to the right answer.
What I found interesting in this article is that these tips are very similar to the ones we use in kumon. For example, giving them the paper and pencil so they can do it and it will be their success in finding the answer. We also believe it is very important to give reinforcement to the students. Saying something like "Good job!" goes a long way by encouraging the student to keep going and stay focused.
L.R.
This article is very helpful in understanding what makes a good tutor. I can remember when I first started volunteering at WHS, I wasn't sure what to do. But I soon learn fast my role and how students will try their hardest to take advantage of the teacher or PTT when they can. I would get frusturated with the students to the point that I would rather give them the answer than brainstorm until they come up with the answer by themselves. When I start to feel that way, I always have to take a step back and realize that I am not helping the student and that they are not learning anything. Being a tutor can be frusturating at times, but the reward out weights the frusturation that you are feeling.
r.n.
My name is Norella Cachola. As I was reading "Give a Man a Fish," I learned that the using of verbal and non-verbal reinforcements work very well. I have been trying these reinforcements to my students, and they feel more confident with themselves. This morning, I told my student "good job!" and he told me that he feels smart hearing that. I would recommend these reinforcements to everyone because they really work.
After reading this article it has allowed me to see that every student is different and needs to be delt with on an individual basis. Although a vast majority of the students are working on the same level, there are a few that need that extra attention and this article is preparing me to assist them using different techniques.
One of the points that I strongly agree with is allowing the students to utilize their resources to find the answer that they are looking for. Not only using the resources but knowing where to find them is key. I work in management in the airline industry and interacting with my staff has forced me to allow my staff to not only use the resources that they have but knowing where to find the information is key. This is very crucial in order for them to learn and retain information that is needed on a daily basis to get the job done. I feel that if the students know where and how to find the information it will allow them to learn and retain information that is needed to get the job done as well.
J.R.
"Give a man a fish, feed him for a day; Teach a man to fish, feed him for a lifetime..." To me, this quote means that telling someone the answer to the problem will only help them for that moment in time. Teaching someone to do the problem; the steps in solving the problem,will help them out later on. A tutor can not be with their tutee 24/7, which means that a tutor can not be guiding their tutee when the tutee is taking a test. So a tutor needs to get the concept of the problem across so that the tutee can then solve it on their own and not have to rely on the tutor. This article is helpful because it shows sample phrases on things a tutor can say/do to help get the message across, without actually telling it.
I guess the article is really very useful. I learned soethng from the article. It s very important that they can explain it by themselves the lesson if they truly understand it. The student can do it independently after given some guide questions. They are able to say something about the lesson or article that is being asked to them. If they can do this, it means they undertsand what they have read or the thing that is being asked to them. mcv.
As I was reading this article, It reminds me when I was a student back home. Our school is lack of facilities, we don't have tvs, videos or computers, It was my Social Study class, and the topic was "Satelitte", through out the whole period he was just talking about the topic without any picture or something just to show us what a satelitte is, so I was thinking its only a makeup story.
So it's challenging to use resources other than just talking.
I stongly agree to use positive reinforcement, students feel so proud once you give a positive one
and you'll have a great relationship with them.
e.f
I found the article to be very helpful and educational. It serves as a guide to upgrade my experiences, skills and knowledge to be a better tutor. I strongly agree with the section that mentioned about letting the tutees to do all the school works so they can be confident about what they can accomplish by themselves. I truely feel that when they feel secure and good about how they perform, our tutees are learning. And secondly about the section that mentioned that tutors are encourage to show signs of encouragements or reinforcements when our tutees are improving because we are helping them to feel good about themselves. We are also helping them in promoting a postive attitude toward school. And by this we, the tutors are succeeding in teaching the tutees to learn something that can lasts a lifetime. sk
This article is very useful and
imporytant to me. Tutors are not to spoonfeed their tutees; we don't
do the work for them. We are to guide and help them if they need more explanation to understand further. We need to teach them to work independently because we can't be always by their side through out their life.
ec
This article is very useful and
imporytant to me. Tutors are not to spoonfeed their tutees; we don't
do the work for them. We are to guide and help them if they need more explanation to understand further. We need to teach them to work independently because we can't be always by their side through out their life.
ec
This article made me realize that I need to work on my tutoring skills a bit. First of all, I have been in that awkward place when the tutee has been sitting in silence for a while after being asked a question. After a moment of awkwardness, I would give the answer to make the tutee comfortable. I now know that I should be patient and let them figure it out or re phrase my question to make the tutee understand it clearer.
I also agree that the students should be doing the work and the tutor should not interfere by taking over the pencil. Tutoring is helping and guiding, not doing the work right?
-JM
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