Tutoring @ TJ’s

I think the UNC Greensboro assessment is useful in many ways. For myself, in the category of processing I’d be between a 2 and 3. Sometimes I’m more patient than others in giving them the time to process their thoughts. I would say, most of the session I give the students adequate processing time, but with some problems or at sometimes I am too quick to jump to helping them with the answer. In the category of scaffolding I would give myself a 4 because I feel like in math, many problems require that you break it down into steps, especially in calculus. Modeling is similar for that in math as well. Graphs are associated with most everything and many times I can’t remember the exact way to do it or I learned it differently then the book or prof taught it so I encourage them to go back to their books(which they have often never looked at) and read examples in the section and we work through them. I don’t think they like it when I have them use their text book, they just want the information from me. In the category of ‘verifies knowledge’ I would have to give myself a 2. I try to check many times but I find it hard when they have so many different, unrelated questions to get to in 30 min. And often I think they humor me saying they understand and try to mimic their way through a problem. I’d say about half of the time I catch the fact that they are faking knowing it and then I really go through it with them, but I could definitely verify their understanding more often. I think this way of assessment is useful in some ways and not in others, I think there could be a 2.5 because I feel the jump from 2 to 3 on many of the categories is a big jump. Other than that it is very thorough and might be useful for the students to use to evaluate tutors they go to more than once maybe.