Trisha TS #8

I tutored Turki and felt like we reached a breakthrough. He tends to be scatterbrained, and when we meet, he's not sure of what he wants to work on. I've been trying to maintain a structure and offer him options and begin our session promptly, but I let him lead the session and it worked better. He changes his mind often about what he wants to work on in the tutoring session, so I let him take his time deciding what he wanted to work on. It took about 15 minutes of him going back and forth. He said that he wanted to do a writing prompt for his class, but his teacher said he couldn't. I wasn't sure where he was coming from by telling me that because he had decided to work on his writing prompt for that class. Our conversation seemed to go in circles around him not being able to use the prompt because his teacher denied it. Finally, I was able to effectively communicate that he could not do the prompt for that assignment, but that other prompts were provided. I helped him brainstorm the different prompts so that he learned how to focus and brainstorm rather than going back and forth. I realized it might not be such a language barrier, but a critical thinking lesson overall. I felt very happy when I led him into brainstorming by asking him questions so that he was able to fill out part of his outline for his essay.