After getting past the format of this smarthinking website with their online chat type tutoring, I realized that a lot of the things we went over in our first meeting were exemplified by the tutor. To make sure that the student understood, the tutor asked the student to explain the concepts that they just went over. Sometimes it’s easy to just say it and wait for the student to nod and say “uh huh i get it,” but then you don’t really know if they actually understand. Another good thing the tutor did was use examples that would get the student to think and apply what they are learning to a problem. The tutor was encouraging and helpful, but ultiamtely it was the student who was doing the ‘thinking’ to work through the problem.