成人快播

Written by Kyle聽Decker, AmeriCorps site coordinator for 成人快播 Twin Cities

One normal day in the reading center, a tutor and a student called me over and asked me to look up whether sharks live in Antarctica (they don鈥檛, it turns out). 聽The pair had been reading through a book about sharks, and a section about sharks鈥� habitats had inspired the student to ask about information omitted from the book. 聽Instead of brushing aside the question or providing what she thought might be the right answer, the tutor instead chose to look up the information with the student, working as a team to figure out the answer.

It鈥檚 easy to think of teaching as one person imparting their wisdom on another. 聽After all, the job of the educator is to educate, and the job of the student is to study. 聽As I鈥檝e worked with students myself and watched many student-tutor pairs excel during my service year with 成人快播, I鈥檝e realized just how much effective learning comes from a partnership between tutor and student.

Take the above example, for instance. 聽The tutor could have chosen to brush off student curiosity by choosing to ignore a question or guess at the right answer. 聽However, a major part of education at any level is practicing good learning skills, and while simply answering a student鈥檚 question will teach them one fact about a topic, working with them to find the answer will teach them something far more valuable: the ability to learn more about and explore the topic on a deeper level. 聽

Time and again, I鈥檝e seen students excel when tutors engage in communal learning. 聽When tutors act as guides and not ultimate authorities, students exhibit a sense of ownership in their work, a feeling that they get to direct their own learning. 聽There鈥檚 more discussion and thought put into academic work鈥攖he goal is to understand the text, not to 鈥渟ay the words that will make the tutor happy.鈥�

The ability to learn with a student as opposed to teaching at a student is one of the benefits of one-on-one tutoring that has invigorated me the most this year. 聽I鈥檝e watched students learn to be both critical of and confident in their own points of view, and I鈥檝e seen tutors learn things they wouldn鈥檛 have otherwise鈥擨 myself have a fine collection of new facts, most of them animal-related.

Most tutors do their best to explain what skills good readers use鈥攂y learning with students, we get to be those readers.