On Wednesday (7/18) I met with Yi Li for our first tutoring session. She said that she had a desire to work primarily on her listening and her speaking, and that she would like to just talk to me. I decided to use this first session as merely an icebreaker. I figured this would be best because she had expressed to me previously that she was lazy, especially with English language studies and I was worried that if I initially met her with extra work, that she might shy away from our tutoring sessions (and I am in serious need of some tutoring sessions!). So, instead of assigning a task, I just engaged her in speech, and at the same time engaged her in something she was very comfortable with...chess(she was top 5 of the female chess players in her region...and yes she beat me...twice!)! I talked with her experience with chess. She said that she learned in high school. She explained to me that in China, parents always want there child involved in some form of extracurricular activity. She tried to learn piano, but felt it wasn't for her, and she wasn't interested in playing sports. She decided on chess and she excelled. She is a great chess player, even more so that I think she realizes. I attacked her aggressively and I had her on the ropes, but I noticed she hadn't even used half of her army yet, including the queen. Once she started bringing "the big dogs" into play it was over for me!
I feel the passive-teaching approach worked out well in this instance. We met for a tutoring session on Friday (7/20) and it went very well : )
Did you just count this as both a CP and TP session, or did you include two different descriptions in one? What did you do for your TP session on Friday?
ReplyDeleteI wouldn't say that it would be fair to count this as a tutoring session. It was merely an icebreaker. My Friday tutoring session is posted in another blog.
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