First
For this activity, I hope to be a positive influence on WIHI student's writing. I am being a writing tutor for wihi kids, and I'm helping them improve. Some difficulties I ran into at first were that I was a little unconfident in myself when giving advice because this was a new thing for me, but I solved this by realizing the importance of being a confident teacher for the students. For the future, I hope to improve by finding a better way to be confident about my advice, because It'll make them more confident in their writing once it's been improved.
Middle:
I was successful in achieving my goals. I am now a much more confident tutor, and I was able to get students to feel much more confident in their writing. Some difficulties I ran into were not knowing exactly what the standard that they are being held to for their writing was, since I did many of the assignments such a long time ago, and it's difficult to work backwards to help. I hope to improve on this by asking teachers who send their students to me to work on giving me a rubric or an example paper.
Final:
During this activity, I helped tutor people in their writing. I interacted with others through finding out what they needed help with, engaging in discussion about their writing, and offering suggestions to improve. I was doing service and advanced objectives 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 8. I was increasing my awareness of areas for growth in teaching, undertaking a new challenge as I had never participated in this type of volunteering before, I worked collaboratively with my tutorees to reach as many people as possible, I engaged in issues of global importance by helping kids learn, and considered ethical implications by considering what I was learning and helping people learn. I developed new ways to teach writing. I had hoped to help make an improvement on student's lives in school, and I was very successful, I got to watch them become more confident, and even had a teacher thank me for my work with a student. Some difficulties I ran into were that some of my explanations were too complicated or didn't make sense to other people, which I fixed by learning from them what they needed . I learned that thinking creatively is helpful when explaining them. The students helped me think about my learning this time by helping me realize how to improve to engage them and figure out what they need. This activity benefitted others by helping them do better in school and improve their confidence in writing. Next time to improve, I will try to be perceptive to their needs from the beginning. I can apply the collaboration and thinking outside the box I learned to every situation in life, from college to a job to a regular day. The knowledege of how to be flexible can be applied to life in general, when things don't go as planned. And learning to tutor is a valuable skill as well.
Total: 4-service
For this activity, I hope to be a positive influence on WIHI student's writing. I am being a writing tutor for wihi kids, and I'm helping them improve. Some difficulties I ran into at first were that I was a little unconfident in myself when giving advice because this was a new thing for me, but I solved this by realizing the importance of being a confident teacher for the students. For the future, I hope to improve by finding a better way to be confident about my advice, because It'll make them more confident in their writing once it's been improved.
Middle:
I was successful in achieving my goals. I am now a much more confident tutor, and I was able to get students to feel much more confident in their writing. Some difficulties I ran into were not knowing exactly what the standard that they are being held to for their writing was, since I did many of the assignments such a long time ago, and it's difficult to work backwards to help. I hope to improve on this by asking teachers who send their students to me to work on giving me a rubric or an example paper.
Final:
During this activity, I helped tutor people in their writing. I interacted with others through finding out what they needed help with, engaging in discussion about their writing, and offering suggestions to improve. I was doing service and advanced objectives 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 8. I was increasing my awareness of areas for growth in teaching, undertaking a new challenge as I had never participated in this type of volunteering before, I worked collaboratively with my tutorees to reach as many people as possible, I engaged in issues of global importance by helping kids learn, and considered ethical implications by considering what I was learning and helping people learn. I developed new ways to teach writing. I had hoped to help make an improvement on student's lives in school, and I was very successful, I got to watch them become more confident, and even had a teacher thank me for my work with a student. Some difficulties I ran into were that some of my explanations were too complicated or didn't make sense to other people, which I fixed by learning from them what they needed . I learned that thinking creatively is helpful when explaining them. The students helped me think about my learning this time by helping me realize how to improve to engage them and figure out what they need. This activity benefitted others by helping them do better in school and improve their confidence in writing. Next time to improve, I will try to be perceptive to their needs from the beginning. I can apply the collaboration and thinking outside the box I learned to every situation in life, from college to a job to a regular day. The knowledege of how to be flexible can be applied to life in general, when things don't go as planned. And learning to tutor is a valuable skill as well.
Total: 4-service
