Master Tutor Final Reflective Essay As a master tutor for Art I I have had to interact with many different type of students and artist. I had many successes as well as areas of improvement which I intend to solve. It has been my first year being a master tutor for an art class and I find it is much different than any other subject. In core classes it is easier to provide help to every student because the student knows that there are certain rules you must obey whereas in art, you are free to express yourself. I have learned very much from my first semester and I intend to improve ten fold in hopes of helping my fellow alumni as well as myself. In art students are always looking for elementary black and white answers to what is "right" and …show more content…
I, since I was little, have always been a very shy person and always tend to keep to myself and only a small close circuit of friends, so walking around and talking to others I normally wouldn 't out of the classroom setting is a little nerve racking and I need to constantly remind myself that I earned my title. I have gotten better at reminding myself of this since the beginning of the school year and I am very please because that not only means that I am improving on my tutoring skills, but also my own personal life. Future master tutors should always remind themselves that they earned their title and that it is ok to walk up to other students and talk to them regarding their …show more content…
In other classes I master tutor, it is easier to accomplish this because they actually ask for help where as in art, the tutor has to seek out the tutee. I believe that if you were to require the tutor to teach a lesson and observe their instruction, you would be able to learn a lot on how your master tutor is helping your class. You will be able to see their weaknesses whether it is their wording, their clearness, their volume, or possible even their pace. It would be a great way to get to know you master tutor, but in the master tutor "handbook" of sorts, it says that master tutors should not do such things. I believe it is more of a master tutors should not be a substitute for your classroom but it would be best to ask whichever teacher is in charge of master tutors if doing this would be
I am currently an English 160 student who is hoping to move on to the next course, which is English 161. I understand the requirements for English 161. It require students to explore a topic in some depth and conduct independent research related to that topic. Conducting research allows students to learn what it is like to participate in academic culture, posing questions about important issues and developing an argument in response to what others have said. It expected students to learn the most valuable skill in college, which is critical thinking. Students have to be able to read challenging readings. Although I still have problems with English, I think I’m qualified to move on.
This personally happened during my mock tutoring session as a tutor when I didn’t understand Laurens questions and I was unsure how to go about helping her. This also seemed to be the case when I was the tutee with Lauren. When I asked her how I could improve various parts of my Drumlin Woodchuck essay, she had a difficult time answering my question. I think this issue has to do with lack of time, and that neither one of us were as prepared as we should have been. Also, during my tutoring session, I should have asked Lauren more questions, instead of letting the majority of our time be spent in silence, as I read over her paper. However, the majority of the time, the mock tutoring sessions flowed smoothly and the tutees and the tutors played their roles accordingly. The tutees would tend to act in a difficult manner and the tutors would try and figure out a way to help the tutee with their homework. This aspect of the sessions made them feel genuine and useful when taking notes on best practices and
I also tutor children who need extra help but their parents might not have the time. This is my favorite thing to do because not only are the parents super thankful for the extra hand, it is awesome spending time and building relationships with the kids too. I think the skill that is most important for teaching young kids is patients. I feel I have more patients with kids than most people. I truly don’t mind sitting with them until they get something right, or not blowing up on them when they mess up. My goal is never to destroy a child’s confidence with academics or to make them feel dumb. I have had some teachers who make me feel dumb when I do not understand something and it made me never want to ask another question
They need outlets to express themselves while getting constructive and positive criticism. The benefits of art classes far outweigh the negatives. Budget cuts can be equally dispersed throughout each school to each individual section of classes. This can decrease the blow to just one section of education. Should students have to suffer because of the elimination of valuable educators – the arts - because of money issues and warped views? Students should be a priority to society because they are the future and deserve the best educations to help them flourish and succeed. By offering arts in schools, students are given the opportunity to develop their skills to the unimaginable. Only they know their true potential. They deserve the means to enhance their imagination and live their lives equipped with the best skills they
Being a tutor or mentor is a wonderful experience that I think will heighten your level of socializing in a professional manner and further progressing your problem-solving skills. I know for me, both apply to my life and I have only been a tutor for two semesters and a mentor for one. I plan on joining the military after my college career is over and having leadership skills will be important in my career path. Tutoring is something that takes being a leader. You must lead someone to a goal. In this case, that goal is learning new material. Being able to help someone and guide them towards gaining more knowledge is something I take great pride in being able to do. For example, I had student this semester who struggled immensely with chemistry (what I tutor).
teacher say that their work is good or improving. Always give verbal praise for the good and do not dwell
Tutoring has always been a task I have thought of with both alacrity and apprehension. On one hand, I have the desire to help anyone who is struggling with whatever they may be doing, yet especially when it comes to academics. On the other, however, I do need to develop better skills of patience and other methods of reaching an idea to those who may not understand the way it is taught to them. Along with the student’s development of skills in the subject, I too develop my own abilities of tenacity and persistence until one is confident in his abilities on his own.
In today’s society anything can be considered “Art”. From the great sounds of a symphony, to the architecture of a modern structure, or even an elephant painting with its trunk, art is what the viewer perceives it to be. Individuals will always agree or disagree with the message behind a certain piece of art, as pieces can be offensive to some, but beautiful to others. Some argue that funding the arts in school is a waste of money, time, or a combination of both, but the benefits outweigh the negatives by far, due to a variety of reasons.
When I arrived into this school building, I signed in the front office. Teacher-2 received to show her classroom for observation. While I was walking and since it is Christmas season I noticed many decorations on the walls, roofs and on the bulletin boards. The whole school is looking just like a decorated Christmas tree. I was amazed and tried to look some of the bulletin boards ideas. These bulletin boards dragged my attention and I was almost stuck looking them. I was taken to a classroom where I noticed the teacher is waiting for her students who are in the library. After a while the teacher stood up and walked near to her door to receive her students. I pulled a chair into the corner of the class, to make sure not to distract the students (as I am stranger to these kids). I noticed students who
...ter I would recommend only having one student per tutor because then the tutor would receive a better connection with the student rather than once tutor doing all the work with student and the other just hover in the background and chime in once every ten minutes.
My eighth grade history teacher Mrs.Harris is my mentor, she taught me at Heritage Middle School, in East Cleveland. This is also how we met and where we had met at. She was in was in her late fifties, brown-skinned, and short. Mrs. Harris always wore something nice, she was such a wonderful person. She made history fun. She had a different bond with all her students, everyone loved her. She was never upset she always had a smile on her face, and she also loved to joke around. Being a teacher isn’t easy, especially working in East Cleveland schools. But somehow Mrs.Harris made it seem so easy, There is not one student who she ever had a conflict with. I could never understand how she never got mad at any of us, she would never yell. Even when dealing with some of the bad kids who like to act up, she was still calm and was able to calm them down. Our relationship was just teacher and student, although that was just our relationship Mrs.Harris helped with a lot of my problems in school and out of school. She was very caring person, and she loved her cat and daughter she would tell us stories about them all the time.
Being a teacher is not an easy task as many people could think. To be a teacher does not only imply to know the subject to be taught, it also includes being willing to constantly improve oneself integrally, as much as updating the resources and materials one uses in teaching. Reflecting and analyzing over and over again the best way to teach to learn and how to make students to extend what has been learned. The many hours spend in the classroom will never be enough to plan lessons, prepare materials, review pupils tasks and exams, as well, all the administrative requirements one has to cover for whatever institution we work. Besides all this a good teacher, a professional one, will have to find the time to keep preparing to improve oneself.
This interview was a great chance to earn some wisdom from the teachers who were once in our position. The faculty at BYUH is exceptional in terms of their teaching, experience, and personality, and it is great to be able to interact with them. For my interview, I spoke with sister Wallace and had a lovely experience learning about her life in TESOL. She expressed her feelings on teaching languages other than English, her experience at BYUH, and her general attitude towards teaching.
When I was young, my dream is to become a successful engineer someday. Of all subject, Mathematics is the easiest for me. I remember how many times I become an honor student during my elementary days and the only subject that lifts my grade is Mathematics. I remember how many times my teacher assigned me to check the seat work of my classmates when I was in high school. And I never thought that I will do this in the future.
At the end of the day or beginning of the school day, I communicated what I did with Ms. P to plan out better activities or lesson plans to meet each individual’s needs.