For my last tutoring session, I went to PAEC again this week. Unfortunately I was told that there wasn't anything for me to do, because there were too many volunteers and not enough children to go around. Intriguing, but great! lol.
So instead I decided to help my conversation partner with any work that she was working on this week in her classes. We met at Starbucks (yum) and posted up at the best table for awhile. We went over a few of her written assignments, and I helped clarify all the different prepositions that could be used in each instance. This was fun for me, I like explaining things I know well. (Doesn't happen as much as I would like). I was curious about the level of reading she was on, totally creeped on her workbook. She was reading at a fairly high level. This made sense to me because I read Spanish a lot better than I speak it. We touched on this idea a few times in class as well.
She wanted to find more resources to work on her listening skills, and luckily I happened to have resources galore from our class. I was happy to forward various listening websites such as the accents catalog from around the country. I particularly loved this website, and hope it helps her out as well. I think my tutoring skills improved some over this summer, however I think I still have a long way to go until I'm completely comfortable with the idea of being a teacher and tutor for others. But I'm okay with that =)
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