Case Study: Novice

     Case Study

        My name is xxx. I’m majoring in childhood education. I am taking English 220 with professor Rogers. Throughout the session I have learned and gain knowledge about tutoring. The texts that was required for this class was Tutoring writing by Donald A. Mc Andrew and Thomas j. Reigstad, the other one is Active voice by James Moffet . I had the opportunity to observe the writing center for four hours which was the requirement for the class. On the other hand I had the chance to tutor the English 101 students.

        Tutoring can be fun but it also can be challenging at some point. I believe tutoring Is collaborative learning. The tutor and the tutee share equal amount of conversation and decisions making. In the tutoring writing it mentioned that “the relationship between tutor and the writer changes from teacher student to converser many times during the tutorial”( Mc Andrew 26). My philosophy of tutoring is your ideas and thoughts about certain topic to the student. Tutoring can be defined as sharing knowledge and expanding intelligence to other by helping them. An effective tutor gives suggestion about potential useful of resources such as websites, books, and articles. This relates to the strategies I have learned mentioned in the text tutoring writing “being an expert”. Tutor should always give back honest feedback to their tutee. ( Mc Andrew 160). I believe the more honest feedback a student gets the more effort they put writing a paper. The more advices a student get, they try not to make the same mistake again as I have observed in the writing enter.

     It was a nightmare for me when the professor told us that we are going to tutor the English 101 student. it was my first time tutoring at LaGuardia community college. I felt  so nervous and had the feeling I won’t able to do this all. I was so hesitant about what if the a student ask a question and I didn’t know the answer. Many questions was running in my mind that made me so fussy about tutoring for the first time. I was anxious about what if I made a mistake while tutoring.

  I was assigned to tutor two students at the same time. It was challenging for me because I never had tutor anybody before. I felt very uncomfortable. I asked the tutee about what was there assignment about. They had to do a research paper on biculturalism using two resources. Both students had an outline. While I was reading there outline felt sense term came in my mind because they express their feeling about the topic what they already knew. There outline also related to free writing. Tutee did a free writing biculturalism. According to tutoring writing free writing exercise was popularized by peter elbow ( 1981). I was surprised to see that in there outline the tutee had some useful information already. I give them suggestion to use their ideas from the outline in there paper. I convince them to use the library data base which they can find articles and other resources for their paper. At the end tutee told me that I was helpful. But I didn’t felt that way because I couldn’t tell them much about their topic. My tutoring experience was not that bad I thought about.

My reflection of tutoring in education is that a tutee and a tutor share there thoughts and idea with each other. While the student is with the tutor they have the chance to use the strategies felt sense. Felt sense is expressing your feeling that you have inside your body about a topic you are writing about ( pearl 365). Tutoring is using your skills and intelligence with other people. I believe Education Is the key to success in life. Without education we cannot move on in life, The higher education we have the more luxury life we live. Tutoring is all about education. To become a unique and effective tutor we have to work hard and achieve our goals.