Tutoring

What does it mean to tutor? We tutor people in explaining a specific skill or concept. We can tutor in math, science, reading, world languages, writing, etc. I have tutored various students in different concepts within the English realm. Examples would be dramatic speech, writing and now reading. For a class I am taking in Graduate School, I have to tutor or mentor a student in his/her reading and any other literacy skill. I got an opportunity, with the help of people within the public education field, to tutor and observe a student within an ESL classroom. I met with the ESL teacher and I am excited for the opportunity. This student has been in this country for a year and has to take the New Jersey High School examination (HSPA's) in March. What I need to work with this student is to improve his reading when it comes to big passages on exams such as the HSPA's and possibly the college entry exams such as the SAT and ACT. With talking the teacher, she gave me the lowdown of this student and what she has observed from the student's progress. So it will be my job to try to help this student get rid of bad habits and create new, better habits when it comes to reading. What was fascinating with the student was that he does not like reading his native language. I wonder what I can do to help him out. However, I only have 5-6 sessions with the student. Hopefully there will be a turn around in his performance and that there will be confidence in his reading abilities. I will keep posting of my tutoring session with this student along with fieldwork which will happen soon.