SCC Tutoring

 Hi guys!  This week's lesson on tutoring was very informative about what a tutoring session should look like.  One of the topics from the reading was that tutors shouldn't dominate the discussion.  I definitely have noticed that conversations without back and forth interactions can feel very stale and unproductive.  Tutors aren't professors and the goal of tutoring is to help students better learn the subjects on their own.  The best way in my opinion, is to simply ask the student a lot of questions so they can actively make decisions and arrive at the answers through their own actions.  The way I'm going to try to avoid this is by thinking of myself not as the teacher but as a fellow learner.  The students have topics that they want to work on and I'll be there alongside them. I have yet to start tutoring just yet at SCC and this Wednesday is officially my first day on the job!  After watching Niko's presentation on the 5-step tutoring cycl...

 Hi!  My name is Albert and I'm a CompSci major at Sacramento City College.  I've decided to try out tutoring this semester for Physics 410 since I had a good experience with the class last year.  I haven't started working just yet so I'm very anxious how things will go from here.  Unfortunately things aren't looking too great already caus' this blogpost is my first assignment for my tutoring class and it's already one day late.  I'm juggling a couple difficult classes this semester on top of transfer applications so please forgive me!  Anyway, I'm excited to teach about physics this semester since it's such a fun subject.  In fact, I even added physics as a potential major in my applications!  There are a lot of formulas but they're incredibly intuitive.  You can learn so much just by knowing what values are in them and the relationships they have with each other.  I picked up a lot of experience throughout this course and I'm eage...