Lila Gornick
3/5/15, 3:20 4:20
Boys and Girls Club
Fabiola Kerfoot
fkerfoot@bgcp.org
I am volunteering at Taft Elementary School with the Reading is Freedom program every Tuesday after school for an hour. I as well tutored here last year so I had some ideas about what it would be like going into this year. However, I am tutoring a new student this year, a 3rd grade girl who is at a reading level behind the rest of her class. After my experience last year I expected to be more of a parental figure to a student, trying to encourage her to just start her homework and get through a few problems with me, or one book, instead of being able to intensively tutor her because the student I worked with last year was extremely uncooperative and didn't want to learn. This year my student has pleasantly surprised me, she is willing to cooperate with me sometimes and wants to learn, even though she gets distracted easily. These tutoring experiences have revealed to me that I am a patient person when teaching others. It has also shown me that explaining how to pronounce words and explain simple math concepts are extremely hard and often the student I tutor does not take my suggestions or remember the words I explained to her, so I know that I will need to find a more effective way to explain concepts. I know that I have had an impact on the girl I tutor because she is excited whenever she sees me and she remembered my name the last time I came (my third visit). She has 9 siblings and her teacher informed me that she has confidence issues so I know that I am giving her one on one attention that she needs that she does not receive at school or at home and I believe having more practice reading aloud in English will help build her confidence.
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