Session Summary
Wednesday, February 24, 2016
4:30pm to 5:30pm EST
Topics covered:
Session Summary:
Mary and I did not have a particularly good or productive tutoring session. She started off the session with a verbal contretemps with her father, right in front of me as if I weren't there (that made me very uncomfortable). I then made the mistake of allowing Mary the choice of what we were to collaborate on. I say mistake, because she chose a topic with which she proved quite comfortable and unchallenged, instead of taking advantage of this tutoring and choosing something on which our collaborating would have actually benefited her in preparation for the next day's major Latin test. She spent the entire tutoring session surly and spiteful, snapping "I don't know" at me each time I tried to challenge her with the material in order to deepen her understanding and her learning. Mary in no way made any attempt to make the tutoring pleasant, fun, or even tolerable. I do not expect these tutoring sessions to be a laugh riot, but I do expect Mary to realize, whether she likes it or not (and, clearly, she doesn't), we are stuck there together for that hour and she needs to take her part of the responsibility of making that hour, even if only at a bare minimum, pleasant and tolerable.
4:30pm to 5:30pm EST
Topics covered:
- First- and Second-Declension Adjectives
Session Summary:
Mary and I did not have a particularly good or productive tutoring session. She started off the session with a verbal contretemps with her father, right in front of me as if I weren't there (that made me very uncomfortable). I then made the mistake of allowing Mary the choice of what we were to collaborate on. I say mistake, because she chose a topic with which she proved quite comfortable and unchallenged, instead of taking advantage of this tutoring and choosing something on which our collaborating would have actually benefited her in preparation for the next day's major Latin test. She spent the entire tutoring session surly and spiteful, snapping "I don't know" at me each time I tried to challenge her with the material in order to deepen her understanding and her learning. Mary in no way made any attempt to make the tutoring pleasant, fun, or even tolerable. I do not expect these tutoring sessions to be a laugh riot, but I do expect Mary to realize, whether she likes it or not (and, clearly, she doesn't), we are stuck there together for that hour and she needs to take her part of the responsibility of making that hour, even if only at a bare minimum, pleasant and tolerable.