Ingredients For A Good Tutor Session Summary

Tom Gier’s article “Ingredients for a Good Tutor Session” discloses important communication problems between a tutor and a student. Building properly relationships with the student is one of the main task for the tutor. Giving undivided attention, having empathy, being honest, make the student feel good about him/herself are the necessary tutor’s skills for a successful session; and these are not a full list. Another important task is to recognize the student’s strengths and weaknesses; and use the strengths as assistant while tutoring. Likewise, a good tutor should create a positive friendly sentiment and attitude to the learning process. For that the tutor should give a credit to what the student knows and then help with new knowledge. As
well, very important to finish session in timely manner; a tired student can’t get information. And finally, session can be considered successful if the student learns how to be more academically independent also.