...have a younger sister, so I have always helped her with homework. My teaching style is more hands-on with explanation; that way, the student has multiple ways to understand the material. I can easily relate to students because I am one, too. I understand that everyone learns things differently. I don't believe there is such a thing as a bad question. My main goal is for the student to understand the material and use it...
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Recent Croatian/Serbian Tutoring Session Notes
The student has passed all but one of her exams so we are focusing all of our time on that portion, Reading. She needs to take the time to read both the passages and the questions thoroughly. She misses about 25% of the questions in the first go and can usually correct her answers when her error is pointed out.
Today we started working on the student's project for Mandarin. His assignment is to create a school that is unique and use the vocabulary from lesson 6 to describe the school by location, as well as what is unique about the school. Most of today was spent on creating a blueprint of the map, as well as going over what the mission of the school was and what set it apart from all the others. Our next session will be focused on writing the paragraphs and translating sentences from English to Mandarin.
The student's final was the following day, so I gave him a "mock" exam. It included English-to-Chinese translation, Chinese-to-English translation, multiple-choice questions on a reading passage, fill-in-the-blank, ordering sentences and writing a letter. We graded the exam, and I encouraged him to focus on the topics with which he struggled.
We finished the lesson on family by learning and speaking a new dialog about two children showing each other photos of their families and sharing how they feel about their families. There was a mid-term review at the end of this chapter, and I gave this review as homework for the student over the weekend. We also went over the instructions for each of the activities.
Today, we reviewed previous vocabulary/grammar/conversations and added some new vocabulary about animals. The student is very curious and had a lot of questions about Chinese characters and wanted to know about complicated grammar points, such as measure words. They were difficult concepts for her to grasp but she got them. We are able to hold conversations with five to six "turns" (one turn = I say something and she responds), which is great! We'll meet again in two weeks and talk about the Chinese New Year. She will prepare for this by reading some books about it.
In this meeting, we reviewed the terms for animals and talked about the names of fruit in Chinese. Given the benefits of introducing multiple linguistic input, I may give my students a try by introducing pinyin next class.
