Yesterday
I had the chance to observe a student from English 101 and a bilingual tutor.
The tutor was very friendly and made the student feel comfortable. The first
thing I noticed was that the tutor asked the question on what the assignment
was about. Next thing I notice was the tutor asked questions on what she
learned from her previous English class. He also helped her defined words that
seem more appropriate for her essay.
After reading her work he gave her positive feedback on her arguments. Two critics he made was put more information about the story into her essay and two connect the thesis to the conclusion. What I found interesting was the tutor knew that the student used a quote from a website and try to use it has her own. He asked her if she knew what that religion believed in. She answered no and instead of saying don’t ever do this again or scolded her for it , he just told her “I have no knowledge of that religion and you either so whatever source you receive that from please cite it for future reference”. He also told her to not use semicolons for every quote and used different word choice to introduce a quote. The tutor also gave her ideas in how to structure her paper and made the whole observation student centered. It was a wonderful learning experience.
