My first tutoring experience was nerve racking. The thought of having to tutor another person the same age or older was scary because for one, even with proper preparation, I still felt as if I might be inadequate.
Now when I met my utter she did not look like she wanted to be tutored, like she did not want to be here and once we talked and tried to get to know each other it was apparent that that was her attitude. It was very hard to warm up to her so what I did was jump right into the essay. I asked her what it was about and if she understood what the assignment was. Afterwards I saw that she had an outline so I asked her to walk me through her outline and she did, she pointed out the main points of her the essay and was perfect to start her essay. So we started with the introduction I told her that the directions asked for a summary so I asked her to summarize the essay and she did so by telling that was what her outline was so I said let's work on her next paragraphs. I asked her prompting questions so that she could get her own ideas flossing because any time I asked her what did she think she should write or how would she start the topic sentence of the paragraph she would shrug her shoulders and say I don't know. It was very much like point teeth with my tutee unfortunately and I just hope next time we meet she will have a more positive attitude so that I could help her to my best ability.
