Tutoring Session 06/23/26- (Anna & Fadia)

 Date/Time: Tuesday, June 23rd, 4:30-5:30

Location: Zoom  

Topic/Skill: Past Verb Tenses: Past perfect continuous, past continuous, and past perfect simple

Feedback provided to the tutee: I presented my tutee with a review in the form of a brief PowerPoint of the 4 past tenses, focusing on the past perfect simple, past continuous, and past perfect continuous. While writing this review, I asked my tutee to explain the tenses to me and give examples to ensure she understood each one before completing an activity. As a way to test my tutee's understanding, we completed an activity in which I read sentences in the past tense to her, and she had to fill in the blank given an unconjugated verb. I completed the first two questions with her, then let her answer the rest (she told me the answers verbally while I typed), and waited until the end to check her answers. Once she was aware of the questions she got wrong, I broke down each error and ensured she understood why she either chose the wrong tense or conjugated the verb incorrectly in the correct tense. I also gave her a chance to go back and correct the ones she got wrong (which she was usually able to do easily) before I explained the correct answer to her.

Lesson(s) about tutoring and/or the tutee you learned: During this tutoring lesson, I felt extremely prepared as I had recalled a grammatical topic that had given my tutee issues previously, created a review PowerPoint, found a useful activity, and created an answer/reasoning key. However, due to my preparation (and eagerness to exercise it), I feel the session was more teacher-centered than I would have liked. I found that by the time I explained what I wanted to and asked if she had any questions, she almost had too many to ask. This taught me that to be truly prepared, I need to imagine how the lesson would play out in real life with a real-life student. For that reason, it would be effective to plan when in my presentation I want to ask questions and at what point asking questions would yield the most positive backwash. This may simply mean that I include questions I know the tutee/student SHOULD be able to answer easily and correctly; this way, I know they are at least paying attention, and the lesson is not overly teacher-centered.

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