Sunday, November 11, 2012
Taste of Success
On Tuesday, I had my first "successful" tutoring session. This was only my second session and my first one wasn't bad, but Tuesday was the first time that I really felt helpful and like I had everything under control. A freshman student came in because she needed help on a religion paper. She had already written an outline but needed help forming a thesis sentence. I had her read parts of her outline aloud and we talked about the assignment and about what points she wanted to make in her paper. We then focused the discussion on the main point she wanted to write about, and I shared with her some tips for creating a thesis sentence. She wrote a thesis during the session, and we worked on it until she had rewritten it twice, and we were both satisfied with it. She left the session confident and ready to begin work on her rough draft. As I said, this was my first successful session, and it was also the first time I experienced the rush of good feelings that comes from knowing you've genuinely helped somebody else. It's an awesome feeling and it makes all of the hard work invested in this class feel worth it. I look forward to honing my tutoring practice so that I can help many others in future sessions.
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That's great, Jared. I have had eight or nine sessions so far and only three have given me this feeling. I am up to about a one out of three ratio of feeling extremely helpful to feeling like I helped a just little. That one out of three is sooo worth it though! Feeling like what you are trying to accomplish, has been accomplished, like a tutee has left you feeling better about their writing and as a writer, is so great! Sounds to me like you feel the same. I also am excited to have more opportunities to practice my skills and become a better to tutor in the process!
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