Hi all! I’ve spoken with a few of you about this already, but I won’t be here for Spring Semester. Instead, I’ll be heading home to Massachusetts and will continue my studies at Bridgewater State University in […]

I sat in on a session where the students and the tutor were talking about the cardiac cycle and the heart. I think that the real strength of this session was the fact that the tutor would ask a question instead of […]

A good biology technique that I’ve come to use is to draw it out, if it can be drawn out. For example, drawing out and labeling a plasma membrane is a lot more helpful than just asking what a plasma membrane is, […]

Inappropriate: “So, you’ve not memorized it?” I think this phrase is inappropriate because the “tutor” is not helping the student by saying this, nor encouraging them, instead it almost belittles the student which […]

This being my first year tutoring at Marymount, there are a few fears that I do have. Firstly would be that of fear of not doing a good job in tutoring, which seems to be the main fear of the new tutors. I know […]

There were many good tutoring strategies to look through for this blog post, but the best strategy to me would be the many parts of Active Listening. This includes methods like “minimal encouragements, p […]