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Essay On Tutoring Experience

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Since beginning my peer tutoring placement I have performed new and unique tasks on a daily basis. At the start of the semester I primarily circulated the classroom explaining concepts to students and answering their questions. As the semester progressed my activities have been refined to be more efficient and effective at helping individual students. With the assistance of Ms. Randle I have been able to pinpoint individual students that would benefit the most from my assistance. These students all have unique individual needs that I try to fine-tune my assistance to accommodate. I constantly strive to better understand each individual’s learning skills.
One example of a way I accommodate a certain student is by reading and writing for him. Early in the semester, it was noticed that this student struggled to get work done. This was not due to a lack of understanding but instead due to issues writing down his ideas and reading the material. Ms. Randle recommended that I focus my attention primarily on him as he needed the most one-on-one help of all the students in the class. Additionally, it was noted that without my assistance he was in jeopardy of failing the class.
One strength of mine that I use to my advantage when performing this task is my strong reading skills. This …show more content…

Randle about the day’s activities and discussing what I can do to be the most effective that day. After this I circulate the classroom seeing if students had any issues with the homework or the worksheets they are working on. If the primary focus of that day is a working period then I will continue to circulate and assist students with any issues. Otherwise, if the focus is a lesson day I will sit quietly while infrequently contributing to the class discussion. Additionally, I will take notes so I can better understand the material to teach and so that if students miss the class they can have a copy of what we learned that

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