Looking Back On The Filming Project

  I've never filmed before, so this project put me out of my comfort zone. I was really nervous being in front of the camera.  Although i was nervous i still managed to have fun doing this project. I was pleasantly surprised to see how creative my team and i were when coming up with the scenes.  Our first step towards filming this project, we decided to come up with three scenes. We wanted to create three scenes that would be a mixture of different situations with many emotions.  I did this project because i was told to do it, I wasn't excited when i found out i had to film.  I think this project was effective because it allowed me to see tutoring and writing in a different way.  The goals we set as a team was definitely met. We wanted to produce scenes that were different, fun and very creative. My audience will get an understanding of what situations may offer in a tutoring session.

My Last Experience

My last experience at the writing center was a great one. I got to see an older tutor in action and I remember coming to him in the past. He was upbeat, very helpful and communicated well with me when I was his tutee. I was curious to see if his tutoring skills changed. We all walked to the tutoring space. He introduced himself to his tutee and began to go over the assignment. .He asked the tutee several questions regarding his paper. He wanted to know what the professor was looking for in his paper. The tutee told him and he began to read over the paper and wanted to see if  it met his professor rules. The tutor gave the tutee feedback and started to correct what was wrong on his paper. He also allowed the  tutee to find his own mistakes. He gave the tutee materials to help him with his paper. They worked together to find mistakes and he also allowed the tutee to go over it on his own. Once he was done he gave the tutor feedback on what he saw in his paper. The tutor continued to go over what he saw was wrong and what the tutee saw was wrong in his paper. He had good body language and was well spoken. He made the tutee feel comfortable right away. He was upbeat and very professional through the whole session. By the end of session the paper was completely fixed and I could  tell the tutee felt confident about  his paper. Overall this older  tutor that I was fortunate to see has the skills that every tutor should  have. LaGuardia is very lucky to have had him all these years in the writing center.

Third Tutoring experience

  My third experience at the writing center was ok but I definitely wasn't impressed. The tutor walked with the tutee to the tutoring space. He introduced himself and started reading his assignment. he gave feedback right away. The tutee was an ESL student and was still getting use to speaking English. He was  a good writer in his country. He explained to his tutor that when he wrote his paper he wrote it in Spanish and translated it into English. His tutor told him it wasn't a good idea to do that because in his native tongue which is Spanish. The words are written backwards in Spanish, when you translate it into English it sounds and looks funny. The tutor was a cheerleader in a negative way, his paper had a lot of errors and the tutor was overlooking it.  He was talking so much that he didn't really give the tutee a chance to tell him all  his issues and concerns about his assignment. The tutor started to change his ideas into his own words. Eventually the tutee started to write the changes instead of actually doing it on his own.  He gave several examples and communicated well with tutee . It was a good and bad session to me. I felt the tutor should've communicated better with the tutee. He should've talked less and allowed the tutee to find his own mistakes. He also should've given the tutee more opportunities to discuss his issues with his paper. Overall I think the tutee wasn't to bad but should definitely work on  a couple of his tutoring skills.

Second Tutoring Experiencs

  My second experience going to the writing center was a great one. The tutor walks in with the tutees and introduces herself to the tutees before they sit down.  She tells one tutee to go over their work and look up what they need help with.  The tutor has great body language and is fully focused on helping her tutees. She is positive and very upbeat when talking to her tutees.  She starts to read the other tutees  assignment and gives her feedback. She rereads the paper over a second  time and goes over the corrections that were made. She is very helpful and constantly gets up to bring the tutees helpful materials to help them with the mistakes their making in their paper. She always allows the tutees to look for their own mistakes in their paper. She easily rotates from one tutee to the other tutee. As one tutee is going over their  assignment, she manages to help the other tutee. She doesn't leave one tutee without doing something while she is helping the other tutee. She takes full advantage of the time she has with both tutees. I also noticed she makes it very clear who is in charge and she keeps the students focused on the task at hand. She is a positive cheerleader and  gives constructive criticism. She asks several questions just to get a sense of where the tutees are in their college career. By the end of the session she was finished with both tutees. I  was pleasantly surprised to see how great of a tutor she was because my last experience at the writing center was a bad one. I was happy to see they have great tutors at the writing center.

school videos

I found the videos very interesting.  I was amazed to see how many kids are suspended, kicked out of school and are sent to jail each year. What suprised me the most was the reasons why these kids were kicked out school. If you walked into a school wearing a weird color or wearing a hat you could possibly get in big trouble. Children of america are not even protected and clearly have no voice in the schools they attend each year. These innocent children are targeted and profiled every day they attend school. I personally feel this is a way for teachers and principals to get rid of children that are clearly an issue in school or may possibly be a problem child in the future.

tutoring experience

Hello everyone,
           I had the opportunity to visit the writing center. When I first walked into the writing center a women greeted me at the door.  I asked her to observe a tutor  and  she had me sign up. I was assigned to a middle aged tutor. The tutors are placed in a cubical to have a one on one comfortable space with their tutee.   The student was an ESL student and had a lot of grammatical problems in her paper. I noticed that the tutor read her paper first and then asked her questions. His body language was very good and he was focused on the task at hand. The problem I had with him was that he would often give the tutee the answers. He wasn't helpful at all and the session ended very quickly. The tutee clearly came to get answers to her paper and she really didn't learn anything from the session she had with the tutor. I also noticed the tutor asked personal questions after the session was over and to me that was clearly unprofessional.  Overall I thought it was very interesting to see what goes on in the writing center.

  Hello Everyone,
            My name is angela and i'm wrting this blog based on a video i found very interesting. I am an education major and i love to explore different views on education. This video caught my eye in so many ways. It was refreshening to see that there is someone that values education and doesn't live by the normal structure way of thinking when it comes to education.
 
       The video on  Ken Robinson was very interesting and funny.  He is very honest and blunt when it comes to his opinions on education.  I strongly believe that creativity no longer exist in schools  and educators as a whole need to find a way to bring out creative thinking in their classrooms.