383 and 103 finally meet...

I felt that this was a good writing session. I tried to remember all the do’s and don’ts during the session with N. I experienced true acting out what one learns that day since my session with N was in the same afternoon I had my 383 class. The class had discussed what kinds of words and things the tutor should correct when tutoring and one of the things discussed was contractions. In the session, I noticed a minute error on the writer’s part where he put ‘can not’ as two separate words and the funny thing is when I pointed out the mistake he immediately set out to correct it incorrectly putting a contraction in place of the two words. He had misunderstood my correction thinking I approved of contractions. We cleared up the misunderstanding but boy, did I feel the power of a tutor at that moment! Our session was a good 25 minutes and it surprised me that we were able to fill up that time correcting his paper. I don’t think I was as assertive or helped him correct everything possible but I left the session having the sense that I got him to think a little more and emitted a sense of open endedness so he would have to fill in the blanks himself. I’m supposed to meet with him again on Saturday. Although I had felt that nervousness of whether I would be able to help him. I try to stay positive and hope that he’s getting real help from me and not just being nice.