{"id":195,"date":"2007-10-10T12:42:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-10T18:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.laughingmonkey.org\/?p=195"},"modified":"2007-10-10T12:42:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-10T18:42:00","slug":"tutoring-observation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/laughingmonkey.org\/?p=195","title":{"rendered":"Tutoring observation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Random observation #83:<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s much easier to tutor someone when you&#8217;re not distracted by the repeating thought, &#8220;Ewww! What&#8217;s that <b>smell<\/b>?&#8221; That happened twice this morning. It made it rather more challenging to hang around until the student really understood the problem.<\/p>\n<p>Aside from that, tutoring is going well. The three- or four-hour shift flies by, with barely a chance to breathe between questions. The majority of the questions seem to be linear algebra (y = mx + b, people! C&#8217;mon, say it along with me, y = mx + b.), with a scattering of Chemistry, Physics and Calculus. I had to bail on one vector Calculus problem this morning (man, it&#8217;s been too long), but otherwise I handled everything that was thrown at me.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m seeing a pattern where someone will ask for help and when a tutor comes over the student meekly asks, &#8220;Can I wait until he (pointing to me) is free?&#8221; I&#8217;m simultaneously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>flattered that what I&#8217;m doing seems to be working for people\n<li>nervous that I&#8217;m helping the students more than other tutors, maybe doing too much of the problem for the student\n<li>worried that other tutors will get resentful of me<\/ul>\n<p>That&#8217;s something I need to keep an eye on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Random observation #83: It&#8217;s much easier to tutor someone when you&#8217;re not distracted by the repeating thought, &#8220;Ewww! What&#8217;s that smell?&#8221; That happened twice this morning. It made it rather&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/laughingmonkey.org\/?p=195\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1],"tags":[60],"class_list":["post-195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mathtutoring","category-uncategorized","tag-tutoring"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/laughingmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/laughingmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/laughingmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/laughingmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/laughingmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/laughingmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/laughingmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/laughingmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/laughingmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}