TP Session #15_Kennell

TP Session #15

This was my last tutoring session with Youngseo, and I thought it went really well. We started with vocabulary and spelling practice, the way we usually did. We then talked for a little while about school and life. Her spoken English has definitely improved since I first started working with her.

I wanted to work on prepositions with her, and was struck by an idea of how to teach them. I drew a smiley face on a small piece of paper, and told her I was going to hide it somewhere. I then wrote down the location of the smiley face in the library, so that she would have to read where it was before going to look for it. I would make sure to use prepositions, using language like “It’s behind the yellow poster” or “it’s next to the computer.” We would take turns writing clues to each other and then finding the smiley. If we needed to, I would stop and explain some of the prepositions to her and ask her to use them in the clues that she wrote. It turned out to be a very good activity. Enthusiasm was very high, and Youngseo was learning proper preposition use rapidly.

This was my last session with Youngseo, so her parents gave me a lovely card, and were very sweet and complimentary about my teaching. I will miss working with them and Youngseo. I learned a bunch, though, and feel very motivated to earn the praise they gave me.