Tutoring Strategy
Posted March 28th, 2008 by kpinkpirate
I was an AVID tutor last semester, and I learned a lot about how to tutor effectively. I was an AVID tutor for Algebra I. Telling the student the answer, or the next step to the problem will not help them take a test on their own. You have to ask them questions that will guide them down the right path in order for them to come up with the step themselves. Eventually, students will learn how to ask these questions on their own and they will have a huge advantage.
Kristina Adams
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True! So true! This is a
True! So true! This is a topic that we talk about like everyday in Prof. Bosse's class. I have him for MATE 2123! This is my observations class and I am observing a Algebra I freshman class this semester at D.H. Conely. I am tutoring a student and he is having problems. His teacher likes to go ahead and walk them through the steps of how to solve the problem. I don't like that technique. I think that its best to ask questions to get the students mind going, hopefully on the right track, and eventually they will understand and solve the problem. We can't always tell them the answer all the time. Students must learn to think and talk the problem out to themselves.
completely agree
I completely agree with what Kristina is saying. Giving the correct answer to a student without them doing the work is really wrong, especially because they never learn how to do it by themselves. And it isn't just math, it's all the subjects that we are going to be teaching. We as teachers need to realize how important a child's education is and how if we just give them the answers, then they are never going to learn.
This is true.
I am very bad in the math field. I have had many people trying to tutor me and some of them were not worth my time or my parents money. It is very helpful when someone gives me hints to get me to the next step. If you do it this way several times then eventually the learner will get the lesson that you are trying to teach.