Tutoring @ TJ’s

Over the last semester of tutoring, I have found myself in two of these categories: the good and the bad. Although a majority of the tutoring sessions that I have fall into the “good” category, there were a few sessions that crossed into the bad. There were a few reasons that these few crossed into the bad. First and foremost, it was the client that was completely unprepared and unorganized. When an unprepared and unorganized client came for a session, I would spend the majority of the hour trying to narrow down the topics into categories that were of manageable size. This was a problem because the client would get a lot less out of the session than usual because they failed to prepare. The client would in turn associate the lack of help and understanding with the tutor. I would consider this “bad.” Another reason that a tutoring session could turn for the worse has to do with my organization. On one or two occasions, I have found myself leading a client onto a tangent that more likely than not would not help them in the long run. It is important that, as a tutor, you stay on the path that you lay out at the beginning of the session lest you move into the “bad” realm.