Reflection

This is my last term for peer tutoring, but I think I took away a lot that will be with me after I move into University.

The first thing is time management. When a summary of a reading is due the end of the class, I can’t spend an hour with Jin reading the article and then twenty minutes for writing. Jin might be a little slow on understanding, but that doesn’t mean that I should slow down so much as to not leave enough time of writing. Hence, I need to plan more time more effectively in order to help Jin with both areas, reading comprehension and writing skills.

Catering to individual needs also greatly improve teaching quality. For example, teaching Jin requires me to slow down my speaking pace and breaking down the sentence structures. On the other hand, Jason is who is much more adept at the English language only needs me to re-explain or re-say the prompt at hand to get to work. Different students are at different skills levels and adapting to their skills levels to better help them is a very important skill.

Creating a healthy learning environment is also very important. Recently, Jin seems to be have become more familiar with other students, which is great. However, there seems to be more badgering going on between students that disrupt the general atmosphere of studying. To increase the efficiency, I should first establish the fact that we are here to learn and not badger with one another so that the students can better focus on the curriculum.

Rushing is not the ideal thing to do. Even though Jin is quite behind the entire class and needs much longer time to comprehend the same amount of information, I believe that rushing him will only produce lower quality work and thus poorer learning quality. Though I just said that I shouldn’t spend too much time one something in time management, I believe that cutting some extraneous things