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WHY HOME TUITION? In old age, people learned in a one-to-one environment for thousands of years. In current times home tuition is building ...

Friday, 17 June 2016

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In order to evaluate the potential power of home-based tutoring compared to community placements, the data was analyzed in terms of Wong’s (2008) categories of transactional, transformational and transcendent. At least superficially, the results favor the home-based tutoring. Only 3% of the home-based preservice teachers could be considered as transactional compared to 27% of the school-based; 75% of the home-based appeared to be transformational compared to 58% of the school-based and 22% of the home-based actually appeared transcendent compared to 15% of the school-based. Almost all of the students talked about a personal relationship with their tutees. The three transactional journals where this was a notable omission seldom, if at all, used the name of the child and focused on the tutor’s own role. Typical of this very small group was the following: The tutoring experience wasn’t different than what I expected. Going in, I prepared myself for the worst which helped….The biggest thing that I learned was that I need to be patient with students. They are not going to get it on the first try…Also I have learned that I am a good teacher and I feel good when a child feels good. I guess this is when you finally realize that you are meant to be a teacher.(AD, black female, college aged) The home setting seemed to catapult the majority of the tutors into a personal role with the children and prompted their new understanding of the challenges the children faced as ELLs in the classroom. They also had the opportunity to see how the Mexican culture influenced the families and gained a respect for the children’s bilingualism. Typical of this largest group of transformational journals were the following: I really believe I have learned so much about teaching from this experience. Before this experience I had never tutored an English Language Learner. I don’t think I understood the extent of the difficulties these children face. I also learned to see each child as an individual. I learned how important it is to focus on the needs of each child individually and not just assume students are understanding you.(JH, white female, college aged) I expected this to be a worthwhile experience, but it was more invigorating than I would ever imagine. I learned more about the Mexican culture, teaching Spanish speaking students and myself as teacher, than I would ever have expected. 

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