Mallory TS#15
Monday, February 26th
9:00am-10:00am
This week will be my last week meeting with Kevin at Apalachee Elementary. I would have loved to continue working with him, because I can tell he is in fact improving his English skills, and I enjoy the practice of getting to tutor someone at such a low level. However, my car has been broken down for about a month and a half now, so I've been taking an Uber to and from the school each time, and I've decided that I just can't afford to keep taking trips all the way out to the school. With that being said, I told Kevin last week that this week would be our last, so that he understood I wouldn't be coming back and didn't think I just suddenly disappeared. I want our last session on Wednesday to be fun, (I think we might do Bingo again since that seemed to be his favorite and get him the most talkative and excited) so for this session I decided to try to ask for some of his schoolwork to go over with him to see how he is doing in class and look at his progress since the first time we met. His teachers are never very helpful, so I just had him bring his whole backpack this time (he usually leaves it in the classroom). It was difficult at first to ask him for some of his papers, because he didn't understand what I was trying to do. I think he really struggles with listening, because a lot of the time when I speak he will say he does not understand, but after last week I know that he is a decent reader, and we've done some activities before where I had him write sentences or words in getting to know each other, so I know he does a decent job there as well. However, any time I try to verbally give him instructions or explain something in English, he seems to get confused. Once I got him to open his foler, I flipped through some of the papers and asked him to pull out any fun activities that he enjoyed. He said he didn't know which papers he likes. This tactic didn't seem to be working, so I just went over a few of them with him and had him explain to me what several worksheets were or what the instructions were for different tasks. It was clear that he definitely struggles, and I'm sure he falls behind most of the other kids. But I was actually a bit surprised as to how he was still able to complete many of the handouts his teachers assigned. He didn't really have much to say when I would ask him about what he does in class, or if it's getting easier for him to understand his teachers, but overall I think he is definitely on the path to improvement.
9:00am-10:00am
This week will be my last week meeting with Kevin at Apalachee Elementary. I would have loved to continue working with him, because I can tell he is in fact improving his English skills, and I enjoy the practice of getting to tutor someone at such a low level. However, my car has been broken down for about a month and a half now, so I've been taking an Uber to and from the school each time, and I've decided that I just can't afford to keep taking trips all the way out to the school. With that being said, I told Kevin last week that this week would be our last, so that he understood I wouldn't be coming back and didn't think I just suddenly disappeared. I want our last session on Wednesday to be fun, (I think we might do Bingo again since that seemed to be his favorite and get him the most talkative and excited) so for this session I decided to try to ask for some of his schoolwork to go over with him to see how he is doing in class and look at his progress since the first time we met. His teachers are never very helpful, so I just had him bring his whole backpack this time (he usually leaves it in the classroom). It was difficult at first to ask him for some of his papers, because he didn't understand what I was trying to do. I think he really struggles with listening, because a lot of the time when I speak he will say he does not understand, but after last week I know that he is a decent reader, and we've done some activities before where I had him write sentences or words in getting to know each other, so I know he does a decent job there as well. However, any time I try to verbally give him instructions or explain something in English, he seems to get confused. Once I got him to open his foler, I flipped through some of the papers and asked him to pull out any fun activities that he enjoyed. He said he didn't know which papers he likes. This tactic didn't seem to be working, so I just went over a few of them with him and had him explain to me what several worksheets were or what the instructions were for different tasks. It was clear that he definitely struggles, and I'm sure he falls behind most of the other kids. But I was actually a bit surprised as to how he was still able to complete many of the handouts his teachers assigned. He didn't really have much to say when I would ask him about what he does in class, or if it's getting easier for him to understand his teachers, but overall I think he is definitely on the path to improvement.
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