Serena TS#8

Date/Time: September 21^st 7:30-8:30pm

Location: PJ’s desk

Topic/Skill: science homework & idioms/ reading comprehension & inference skills

Feedback provided to tutee: We began the session by reviewing science homework that he was too frustrated to figure out during the last session. After I re-explained to PJ what the question was asking he was able to answer the question quickly. I praised him for finally being to answer the questions and reassured him that it was because he looked at it a fresh and rested. Last time he was trying to figure out the questions near the end of the session after already having spent 40 minutes on other science questions.

Lesson(s) about tutoring and/or the tutee you learned: For this session I prepared a PowerPoint with pictorial representations of different idioms. When we began working on idioms I realized it would be more effective to take a diagnostic on idioms PJ already knew rather than wasting time trying to teach him idioms he knew. So we spent a few minutes where I read through a master list of idioms and he told me what he thought they meant. For each idiom he didn’t know I copied them onto a word document to focus on for future lessons. At the end of the session I copied 8 of the idioms or meanings onto cards to use for a game with the magnetic crane we created last session. We played a matching game where I read either the meaning or the idiom and then PJ had to pick up the right answer using the crane.