One activity that reflects my personal commitment to community service is Totem Tutoring. Totem Tutoring is a place where students at Mountain Pointe can come and be tutored by other students who are knowledgeable in specific subjects. Initially‚ I started tutoring at Totem because I was unknowingly in room where it was taking place‚ and a student asked me for help understanding chemistry. Once I discovered that I was unwittingly participating in the program‚ I decided to continue my involvement
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Tutoring Reflection 4 Elizabeth is a self-directed low-proficiency ELL. However‚ her frustration in evident‚ when she comprehends English yet lacks the skill to articulate her thoughts in English. When queried on her grammar strengths and areas of need‚ Elizabeth had a difficult time conveying some responses. However‚ after a review of grammar topics‚ she identified article usage as a strength‚ effortlessly constructing examples‚ a chair‚ and the notebook. On the other hand‚ areas of need identified
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life have taken place in the presence of others with a while leading backpacking trips‚ retreats‚ or during tutoring session. These are experiences of reflection and learning as well as connecting on a deeper level with people I normally would not. One of my passions is teaching‚ which I have also been able to explore during trips/retreats in addition to the obvious application to tutoring. Since I have been a freshman in high school‚ I have tutored a wide variety of students from preschool to college
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The culmination of my tutoring sessions with Amira was satisfying on several levels. When I began my tutoring with Amira‚ she was reserved and shy and it was difficult to engage her in conversation; I had yet to form a bond with her where she felt comfortable interacting with me. By the time I had finished my tutoring sessions with Amira‚ she was much less reserved and had opened up to me in a way where she felt comfortable in everyday conversation‚ in responding to questions and in reading aloud
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Peer Tutoring Final Reflection Paper My goals in joining peer tutoring were to have an easy term project assignment and spending one hour each week for studying with my friends in an enjoyable atmosphere‚ but after a couple of sessions‚ I discovered that peer tutoring was more than that. With peer tutoring‚ my motivation for studying has increased a significant amount as well as my grades. The program didn’t only provide me academic success‚ but it also thought me the best studying skills that
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What is Online Tutoring? Online Tutoring is a kind of distance education‚ which makes considerable use of information and communications technologies like e-mail‚ Internet conferencing and the World Wide Web. Using these Course materials can be mounted on to a web site. Speedy interactions take place between tutor and learner using e-mail‚ and‚ perhaps most significantly‚ collaboration between learners can easily take place‚ and allowing for the building of a learning community which allows learners
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thought of myself as good with kids‚ so I decided to try participate in Tuesday Night Tutoring‚ a program hosted by my school aimed at helping children to read. I naively believed that I could give them a few tips I used when I first learned to read‚ and at the same time help them to absorb some information from the practice readings‚ but reality fell very far short of my hopes. I struggled both to convince the children that they were mispronouncing several words and that my pronunciations were any better
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One step to take before becoming a teacher is to complete forty tutoring hours at Oasis Catholic facility. I have tutored children before‚ but when I first went to Oasis I was nervous. The facility was in a trailer park community primarily consisting of Hispanic immigrants who do not speak much English. However to my surprise‚ the children spoke English well. I initially believed I would need to learn more Spanish to tutor the children‚ but since I tutored the fourth graders‚ I did not need to learn
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Teaching and Mentoring Experience Teaching has been a fundamental component of my academic training. I have been actively involved in teaching‚ tutoring‚ and mentoring high school and undergraduate research students throughout my doctoral and postdoctoral work at the City University of New York (CUNY). I taught General Chemistry (I & II) laboratory courses and recitation sections at CUNY for four years. I volunteered as a physical chemistry tutor for undergraduate students from CUNY. At St. John’s
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into anything. At the age of 10‚ I was placed into an afterschool tutoring program. I was struggling with my reading and math so my parents placed me in there to improve on my weakest subjects in school. The class was being set up so students who applied for the program had to wait outside of class in the hallway of Waipahu Elementary School. I assumed that all the students waiting out in the hallway were signed up into the tutoring program. I looked around to see if I had any friends that I could
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