Tuesday was my first time tutoring students at CIES. I got a group of four students who all wanted very different things. Two of the students from Turkry, Yakup and Ayni, were very vague about what they wanted out of tutoring. They said they wanted practice. Rasheed and Sultan were more specific about wanting help with certain homework assignments, and they both came with homework that they wanted me to look over.
Having four students at the same time who all want different things is near impossible. When I was trying to talk to Yakup and Ayni, Rasheed and Sultan continually interrupted me to ask questions about their homework (not in a rude way though). Then, when I tried to help those two with homework, Yakup and Ayni would seem bored and impatient. Next week hopefully I won’t have as many students, or I will have a group with similar wants.
Sultan and I worked on his “compare and contrast” essay. At first he didn’t really get the concept, but I wrote our names down and made him compare and contrast us as practice. He came up with “We both speak English, are at CIES, and are students at FSU. You are female and from America, I am Saudi Arabia.” After that we looked through his paper and tried to clean things up a bit.
No worries McKenzie. We have more tutors on the way next week!
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