Reflection Paper On Redondo

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My observation took place at the Redondo Study Hut, Monday March 19th of 2018 in the afternoon. I was shadowing Veronica as she was tutoring one of her regular tutees, Dominic. Dominic is in the eighth grade and has a learning disability. He tends respond better through visual learning. I chose to observe Veronica’s tutoring style as she works to accommodate for Dominic’s learning disability when creating a lesson plan. Veronica is a very patient and organized tutor. She works well with kids and takes her time to tutor all her kids. Going through each subject with her tutees, she goes into specificity to ensure follow up questions were answered and confusions were cleared. In doing so, she would ask her students if they have their notes or book to use as a guide to reinforce and retain information. Throughout the session, I am expecting it to go somewhat smooth, …show more content…

As soon as the tutee came in, the tutor greeted him and asked the tutee what it is they will be working on today. This allowed some time and space for the tutee to discuss with their tutor what it is he needs help with. The tutor was able to initiate the tutoring session with a broad question to allow the tutee to explain what it is he was confused with. Actively listening, this allowed Veronica to develop follow-up question to push students to elaborate on their point of confusion. Veronica was able to see that the tutee needed help with his math homework, solving dilation problems. Before attempting a problem in the assignment, the tutor asked questions that would help her see how well he understands the concept. Through his explanation, Veronica was able to evaluate where the disconnect of information was to create a lesson plan to

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