Since I missed my first tutoring session, I had no idea how it would feel to tutor. My classmates were very happy from their first time tutoring. In fact, they could not wait to tutor for the next time. In my case, I was freaking out all the time. The whole time I am thinking that why am I doing this? I am majoring in elementary education; not going to be tutor in college. As next session came, my professor introduced me to my tutee. At this moment, I was freaking out even more because my tutee looked like he was same age as mine. I started judging myself, thinking that I am bad in writing; how will I ever help someone. Instead, he will start to tutor me and letting me know that I am very in grammar.
As I was thinking so much, I ran to my professor asking for help. She told me that I am in more advanced class than him and I can do it. She handed me some worksheets and told that he needs help "run-on" sentences. What? Run-on sentences! Grammar I was shaking, my tutee could tell that I was feeling nervous So I try to stop my shaking and ask him about the assignment. He mentions that they suppose to read an article and answer question whether if he agrees or disagree with this proposal. I saw that he written down two paragraphs summarizing the article. He needed help writing the whole essay by using the facts from an article. At first, I did not go ahead worked on the run-on sentences; not because I thought i was bad at it. I wanted him to continue on writing the essay and make him understand what is the best strategy to write an essay in 90 minutes I told him that I have went through same process and knowing how to manage those 90 minutes is very important. I told him to take 10 minutes to read, 10 minutes to note down the main points, 15 minutes to free-write 20 minutes organize the paper, and rest of the time to correct the errors and more. After explaining this method, the most important thing was that he needed to understand the concept of writing about the proposal.
As he was struggling to decide whether he would agrees or disagree with the proposal; I told him to free-write for five minutes I told him to write anything that comes in his mind. At first, he looked at me like I was joking about writing but as i made him write for five minutes; he got pretty good essay to write. Next I told him to use his summary to just add the facts in your essay.
Due to the less time and my nervousness, I was glad that I was able to help him on something. Hopefully, I am more prepared and be ready to help my tutee.
