On Monday, February 16th, I had my third tutoring session with my Advanced Foundations student, Saaja. Like the past week, we met in front of Strozier library. Saaja was quiet once again, but she is always very sweet. I worry sometimes that she isn't understanding anything that I'm saying, because sometimes she doesn't respond.
Saaja had brought along her homework, and had me help her with her assignments that were due the next day. She was having particular trouble with an assignment where a picture was on the worksheet, and she had to explain what was happening in the picture. Example answers were "Driving by the McDonalds" and "Walking onto the bus". What was interesting to me, was that in class a few of the answers that Saaja had gotten wrong were because she didn't understand what was happening in the picture. Some of them were very unclear, and I think that this made the assignment at lot harder for her. It made me wonder if this was a cultural thing, and if some students from other cultures would have the problem as well. After having her talk through the sentences with me, she seemed to grasp the concept more.
Saaja and I agreed to meet in the same place and the same time next week. I am very proud of her progress, she seems to be doing better in her schoolwork than the first time we met!
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