Do any of you tutor/have tutored? What was your experience with it? What is the best and worst thing about it, for you? What do you feel worked best when tutoring?
I tutor a girl in English and History. She has some learning disabilities, which makes things difficult, and I don't expect her to excel. I only expect her to put effort. However, she gets away with not doing her work from her family, so it's very difficult to enforce anything. She will just get up and walk around, and try to play hockey in her living room, listen to music, etc. It's frustrating because as someone who wants to go into the teaching field, I wanted this to be practice. I feel like I do this girl's work more than anything else. It's very frustrating.
At times though, I do feel like it helps me prepare for teaching, in that I have to find new ways to explain things to her. She has the most trouble in History, so I'm always trying to simplify things like pre-WW2 in a way that she can understand and remember. To be able to teach in many ways is important for someone who is a teacher.
What does work best with her is doing games. She's usually very poor at vocabulary, but we decided to do a word matching game to help her study, and she did so much better than usual. I may have to keep that in mind. It does help.
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