During my final observation, I observed a tutor who was working with two students in one session, and with another observer besides myself. She didn't specify how she would divide the time she spent with each, she just began with a student she was already familiar with and began to read her paper to herself, since the paper had already been handed and graded by the professor. Throughout her reading her paper on bailouts regarding the bank systems and such, she agrees with many of the points the student has made, and when she is done reading she only suggests that at some points the student has gotten off topic and redirects some of those points into arguments that fit better. The student then shows her a revised version of this paper and the tutor reads through a bit and then tells her this version is much better. She asks her questions such as what a bailout is, what it was supposed to do, what it really did and so on. After asking her these questions she asks her to expand on those answers and leaves her to create stronger arguments based on that.
The other student's paper is about not just texting and driving, but about how talking on the phone even with a headset while driving should be banned. She looks over his paper and his assignment task and asks him what he thinks it should be about before explaining that his paper is great, has good quotes and statistics, but that his main assignment is to discuss what legal bans and laws they can make to impose for this issue. She suggests focusing on the law aspect and also suggests some slight reorganizing of his ideas. Overall I believe what made this a good session was how knowledgeable the tutor was on both subjects the students were discussing. I think her questions really helped each student either expand or focus their ideas, creating a successful session.
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