REFLECTION

As a tutor student, we know that teaching content to someone else until they
understand it shows an extremely high level of competency in that particular area.

During the Socratic method of tutoring, I was making him aware of the fact that
challenges in learning and understanding often come from not being able to relate
the immediate material to prior knowledge. During the Socratic way of tutoring, the
child learns that information must be organized into meaningful patterns. Every
tutoring session needs to demonstrate that learning is a process of recall,
comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis and evaluation. This is the reason
that a good tutor will not be completely satisfied when the child gives the correct
answer, but will say, “ How did you come that conclusion?”. A good tutor will ask a
child “How would you check the answer”, “Is your answer reasonable?”, “What
makes you think that”, or “What would happen if we changed …..”

The reality is that many students want to have a tutor since its “cool” to have
somebody who will tell you how to solve a problem when you don’t know how to
solve it yourself.

All of these students experienced struggles throughout their learning process, but
all of them produced amazing work and learning through the perseverance. It’s truly
a testament to project-based learning (PBL) and the power of doing versus just
listening or reading.

As educators we need to be pushing students harder, compelling them to be the

owners of their learning. No longer can a teacher just preach and hope to make a
lasting impact.