The last few weeks I have been in the process of becoming a tutor to a single student for a single session at Laguardia Community College. I have very mixed feelings about tutoring or more specific about being a tutor.
My reasoning for taking ENG 220 was for the sole purpose of graduating from LGCC at the end of this semester. I needed a 4 credit class to meet the 60 credit requirement and this was the only class that fit my schedule. So while it was not forced onto me to take it still feels like it has been forced upon me. It's because of this reason I didn't have a great swell of enthusiasm for tutoring.
However, I've been to compensate for this feeling at the beginning by convincing myself that what I learn could be useful later in life. If I don't make it as a filmmaker then I could always teach it film. As the saying goes, "those that can't do teach".
I have always liked the challenge to doing something that takes me out of my comfort zone and tutoring certainly falls into un-comfort for me. I've tried to help other people in writing papers before and have had very little success. My wife, Christy, comes to mind in my most recent failures when she tried to pro-cure my services for a summary paper on psychoanalytics. Now I've realized it might have been my approach to helping people that have been my down fall.
So now in week three of ENG 220 I feel better about tutoring with the styles and techniques I've learned in the class and can't wait to put them to work.
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