Tutoring (school)

This is the month when all the IGSCE students have their oral examinations for their Language B. That is why, after talking to my Spanish teacher and asking her who needs help with preparing for the exams, I decided to talk to Edgar and Dini in Year 11. Both are very bright and easy learners, but they also had a common problem- memory and pronunciation. The problem with Edgar was that he was trying to memorize the text as it is written and Dini didn’t understand the meaning of most of the complicated words.

So the week before their exams I asked them to see me twice during lunch breaks and we spent that time wisely and trying to prepare them well for their presentations.

For both of them Mrs. Mihailovksaya gave me papers on which were written dialogues, a special preparation for the exam.

I spoke with each person for 30 minutes, since the break is only 1 hour. With Edgar we had improvement even from the first 5 minutes. Although he was interrupting me while I was speaking and wasn’t listening very carefully I helped him with his accents and he really improved.

With Dini, the problem was that he wasn’t able to structure simple sentences like ‘’My father has brown hair and hazel eyes’’. I translated for him word after word and when he got the meaning of each one he started to get the whole text. We also worked on his pronunciation.

With both Edgar and DIni I improvised during the dialogues so that their answer won’t be memorized but they could actually think.

During this activity I have worked collaboratively with others and I undertook new challenges.