Damil_TP_#7

Child TP- 4
2/3/2015
6:30 pm
CIES Building

Topic/Skill: 
-Reading Comprehension 
-Grammar

This evening I observed Briggs, my fellow TEFL classmate, tutor PJ. Before the beginning of the session, she told me that she had some reading comprehension homework to help him with. The material was a brief summary of the origin and achievements of Thomas Edison. At the beginning of the session with PJ, we watched together a short animated video based on the same subject. PJ seemed very delighted with the video. At times, Briggs would pause it to ask him who certain characters in were and what was occurring in the story. 

Once the video was finished, Briggs and PJ began reading the homework assignment together. Once they got to the question and answer part, PJ seemed to have a good understanding of the material that he had read and had little trouble answering the first questions. I believe that the video really helped him build his schema and interest in the story. As they completed more questions in the reading comprehension homework, the questions started to gradually become more challenging. I remember that Briggs and I had to define what the words predicting, fact, and admire were to him. We used vivid hand gestures and familiar objects to help him out. To make sure that he understood what he was being thought, Briggs would ask PJ to give us example sentence in return. 

When the tutoring session ended, Briggs told me that she wish she had the materials earlier than she got them to prepare appropriately. I have to agree with her in that sense. I would encourage her to try think of new ways to improvise more in case she dose not have any teaching material ahead of time. Perhaps using in book illustrations and looking up word definitions and in sentence examples on a computer device while teaching. This may interest PJ very much and would help her out with things she may not know right away. She did a good job.