FIRST DAY OF MY OBSERVATION

FIRST DAY OF MY OBSERVATION

Time: 1:00 – 2:00

Date: 03/21/2014

Topic: “Compare two Family Photos”

Class: ENG 101

           

First day of my observation, the lady at the desk assigned me to a tutor, then the tutor introduced himself, and he introduced me to the writer. The writer is an ESL students that have a “-c” on his paper and went back to fix it for a better grade. 

Every minute I was sitting there, I was looking at the tutor for his body language and his attitude throughout this session.  However we sat down together and while he was talking, I saw that “friendly and welcoming, smile”. Additional, his voice was at a level pitch while he was talking; he wasn’t too loud and wasn’t too quiet. 

He said to the writer “welcome I am your tutor for today session and I am here to help you” then the tutor took out his paper and explains the reason what he was there for. However, the students were having problems with grammar, verbs tenses, singular / plural, fragments and run-on. Then the tutor told him “OK please slow down and let’s us read lines to lines and fix each problem that occurs in each line”.

I believe that, the tutor was having a “collaborative tutoring” with the writer because there were both asking questions while there was fixing the problems. As the tutor and writer keep working I saw that “reading and writing relationship” between both of them. For example, while both of them was reading lines to lines, then tutor leaves writer to figured out his own grammar mistake and if the student cannot figured out his own mistake, then tutor ask him to read the sentences over again and address it to him and fix it.

On the other hand, the writer asked the tutor “what is a thesis? How can I develop a thesis? What is the main purpose of a thesis”? Tutors replied “to develop a good thesis the first steps you have to brainstorm, able to develop ideas in order to develop a thesis, then you have to pick two or three main points and develop a general sentence in your introduction and that is what you will talk about in your body paragraph.

Another question, the writer asked “how can I improve my grammar, pronunciation and vocabulary. The tutor replied “there are many ways you can improve your grammar, pronunciation and vocabulary by reading a lots of newspapers, magazine, blogs, books, or anything have to do with reading.

However, we ran out of time and he advice the writer to visit the writing center to finish his last two paragraphs that had left and if he have any other questions feel free to visit again. He also gives the writer work sheets to improve him grammar, verbs tents, and singular / plural.

 I will recommend this tutor to anyone including myself if need help on a paper, an essay, or any types of writing because he explain everything clear, provide information / ideas, and have direct eyes contact to see if you are focusing.