Reflection Paper On Peer Tutoring

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My peer tutoring class brought on many positive learning and social experiences. Upon enrolling in the class I would have never been able to grasp the level of ownership towards the class and students. Not long into the semester Mr. Graham and I started calling it our class and our students. Each one of the students, even the ones who I may not have gotten along with, helding meaning to me and I felt myself constantly rooting for their success and feeling pride upon any achievement. An example of this is when a student in my class showed potential to move up from locally developed math to applied and when she agreed to try and make the jump my enthusiasm was unsurpassed. Once she made the decision to do so I did everything in my power to ensure she could achieve it because I wanted to see her do the best she could. …show more content…

I find myself using these when I am dealing with an argument between my friends or a defeated plea from a peer unable to cope with university, paraphrasing often assists in these situations to easily get to the underlying problem in order to deal with those first. This course has allowed me to have many wonderful experiences, it allowed me to grow close to a group of students and go on the beginning of their high school story with them and to hopefully push them in the correct direction. It put me in the position to learn tools to be used both in the classroom with the tutees and in my normal day-to-day social interactions, for these and many more experiences I am eternally

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