My Session #2

The second session of mine was harder than the first. She didn't want a collaborative session, but more of a teacher-student style session. She wanted me to basically do the work and tell her what to do, but I couldn't do it even if I wanted to .I wanted her to speak up with me, and tell me what she thought was wrong, but she didn’t start talking until toward the end of our session. Working with her, I had to realize that the process I had laid out was not going to work for her, and that I had to change my way of approaching her. . I did not want to be that tutor that was going to be “too expert”, and made sure that the student only walked away with what you put into them, but not what they put into themselves I told her to show me her paper, and highlight the areas she felt that she needed help in. The assignment was to write about her major, and to think about the pros and cons of being in that major. She is doing Nursing, and talked mostly about other people's accounts in the nursing field, other than trying to write about her own. Looking at her paper, she highlighted almost the entire essay, and I noticed that the 'cons' part of her essay was missing. She wrote only about the positives, and she didn't have any sources. I went back to my fool-proof method- the free write. We wrote down all the cons she and I could think of that was in the Nursing profession, and we came up with quite a few, for her to write a substantial paper. I helped her with JSTOR- a site that finds all of the sources you will ever need, about any topic. We even got the chance to find some sources that will help solidify, the cons that she has there. This session really started off rocky, and I was very uneasy, but towards the end, I was certain that she would've written a killer paper.