My First Tutoring Session

Nervous is an understatement of how I felt waiting outside the room.  The more I waited the more nervous I became.  After sitting down and introducing myself to the two tutees a bit of the nervousness went away.  Not all of it but most of it.  I had two students both of them ready to work.  I spoke to the student I was not going to be working with first and told him to read over whatever he wanted me to work on with him and to make sure that he was happy with his work.  I told him to jot down anything he might want to change, add or develop on.  I turned to the student that I was going to work with and asked him to see the assignment.  After reviewing the assignment, I read his response.  He made sure to let me know he was still in the middle of working on it.  For the most part what he had done already was good.  He just needed help developing some more ideas.  I had never seen the movie "The Matrix" and by reading what he wrote I kind of grasp the concept of the movie.  He had come up with a great example but never connected it to "The Matrix" so I asked him to make the connection while I worked with the other tutee.  Right before I turned to work with the other student he asked me if I had any ideas on how he could come up with ideas.  We spoke about how he can draw from personal experiences and from things going on around him.  He didn't seem very confident and I made sure to tell him that confidence was so important.  I pulled out an example CATW prompt I had and we went over that quickly we read it together and I asked him to give me examples of what he might possibly write given that prompt.  At first he couldn't really come up with anything but once I gave him an example he was able to come up with a few on his own.  He looked a little relived after this.  I then began working with the second student.  This student had excellent ideas.  He made wonderful connections between the movie "The Matrix"