Andy_TO#9

I observed Gale's tutoring lesson last night after class with three of her Brazilian tutees. They were all very nice and very smart and I was pleased to meet and work with them because up until this time I had only worked with my tutee's. So it was nice to observe someone else's session and relax a little, but also learn something as well. Gale is a very good tutor/instructor and while she had a lesson prepared for the students she opted not to do this for the session and gave the students the activity for them to complete on their own if they liked. Instead we played a vocabulary/spelling game called Bananagrams. Very similar to scrabble or words with friends, Bananagrams has a bunch of tiles with letters on them and the players must build words with the tiles and play of each others letters/words. I had played before but could not remember exactly how to play, but it didn't matter because we ended up playing a friendly game between all of us with our tiles all face up and Gale would take turns making her tutees use each new word in a sentence and ask them additional questions to test their comprehension. We played for over an hour and helped Gale think of other definitions or synonyms/antonyms for words even though her tutees were just as smart and able to come up with some of terms on their own. Everyone had a lot of good words and a we shared a few laughs. It was a nice change of pace compared to a lot of tutoring sessions that I had been doing and made me want to incorporate more fun activities in my sessions.