TS #3 Abraheem (2 hr)

Abraheem came to our third meeting on Thursday hoping to work on revising the concluding paragraph in his paper. This was definitely my most challenging tutoring session because it required me to really break down the writing process and truly teach. Up until this point, I felt like I was more of a helping hand, but this session really challenged my skills as an English teacher. I found the best way to work through this process with Abraheem was to talk through his conclusion and the potential directions he could take. I would offer suggestions that would push him in the right direction. For example, in the restatement of his thesis, he did not mention the two soccer players that his paper was about. I explained the importance of mentioning them in this sentence and he revised the sentence so that I mentioned them both by name. As we worked on his conclusion, I noticed that speaking his revised conclusion out loud while I wrote down what he was saying and provided feedback in the form of conversation was most helpful for him. Furthermore, writing down his rewritten sentences on paper made it easier for me to point out grammatical errors and explain certain sentence structures. Overall, this tutoring session taught me a great deal and I finished the session feeling more confident in my ability to teach writing than when I started. 

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