Chris TS#15

After my adult tutoring session today I went down to the public library. I am doing my first observation today. David is the twin brother of my child tutee, Matt. Bruce from our TEFL class is one of David's tutors. 

It was interesting just being able to watch the session instead of having to conduct it. Bruce and David began with a reading comprehension passage about Amelia Earhart. Matthewand I had done this passage a few weeks ago so I was fimiliar with the material and also intrigued to see how they would handle the passage. David seems to be like his brother in that he is bright, but needs motivation to get going, especially with schoolwork. With Bruce's guidance, David read the passage and did pretty well with the comprehension questions. I enjoyed some of his inferences about what he thought happened to Earhart being that she was never found. 

Next they moved on to another passage about an explorer of the early West namde John Colter. David was getting a bit distracted during the comprehension questions and somehow Star Wars came up. Bruce said that he would show David his Yoda impression if he stayed on task for the remainder of their lesson. This incentive really worked and David went right back to work. 

David stayed really focused on their passage for the remainder of their session. He really took his time and asked some great questions to Bruce. After reading the final passage for the day, David got to hear Bruce's Yoda impression. Which is really awesome by the way! This was a good session to sit in on. I was impressed with Bruce's ability to keep David focused. I think he is a great tutor and can see him doing well as an English teacher!