Experince of My First Tutoring Session

          My first tutoring experience went well, the student that I had seemed very nice and happy that I was their to help her with her paper. The session went well, for the time that we had discussing her paper. She took my advice on some changes that she had to make throughout her paper, but she also asked questions and shared any concerns that she had. A strategy that from the text that I saw worked for me during the tutoring session was Collaborative Tutoring. The student and I was engaged in equal conversation about her essay, I didn't just solely speak not taking her interest or concerns into consideration. The only thing that I think went wrong was just nit be able to read her hand writing, which wasn't a main concern but some of her words was hard to read because they were missing words as well. But overall, the student had a fine essay with great amount of details and evidence to support your claim and opinion. I likes how she also used her own experience in her essay through her parents which made the essay more meaningful.
           In my next tutoring session, I would try to used my time well if I'm tutoring two students at the same time again. Its kind of difficult to give to students an equal amount of attention at the same time. I would have one student working on any corrections that they found in their essay while I work with the other student. That's the only thing that I would do differently in my next tutoring session. Some new strategies that I just learned that I would try for my next tutoring session is having conversation which is talking about our mutual interest, such as current event, music or sports. This helps a student who is having trouble developing  ideas for their essay. I would also talk to them about the topic, asking what do you think about the topic in your opinion? Do you agree or disagree with this topic or what would you do differently if you had the chance? I think that conversation between the student and tutor helps the student to brainstorm ideas and jot down notes to look back on later on, if their having trouble including more details in their paper.

Ideal tutoring session

Their are several things that are important to a successful tutoring session. For example, having eye contact with the student, not being distracted from things that surround you, but most importantly dealing with the student whole structure of their assignment making sure that they have a thesis statement which is very important. Some of my classmates mentions several things that are important or what they realized in there observations that stood out to them. According to Melissa, she mentions in her observation that "a teacher-centered learning is considered a (LOC) Low Order Concern", not talking to the student and solely just talking from a tutor prospective not getting the students opinion or asking them questions pertaining to their assignment. Its good to include the student in the discussion working collaboratively as Melissa mentioned side be side with the tutor.  During my observations I have noticed this taking place as well. Along with Low Order Concerns Michelle mentioned it was a   priority  to one of the students she observed, because it was "what was going to prevent the student from the grade they felt that they deserved". That is understandable when it comes to a situation like that because at times teachers do take off points for spelling and grammar. Though spelling and grammar is not a major issue it's ok to double check it or make sure that its good. Another thing that is important to a successful tutoring session is encouraging students to come back to the writing center. As Cindi mentions in her observation that "visits to the writing center ensures that a successful paper will be produced". The more that a student comes to the writing center and get feedback on their work is the better their paper will. All of these strategies are key when having an ideal tutoring session, looking more on the High Order Concerns rather than the Low Order Concerns and developing the habit of collaborative learning, which includes the student and teacher in discussion of the paper.