{"id":3423,"date":"2010-12-03T07:40:54","date_gmt":"2010-12-03T07:40:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/floc.org\/?p=3423"},"modified":"2018-10-08T08:21:35","modified_gmt":"2018-10-08T08:21:35","slug":"crouching-tutor-visible-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/floc.org\/flocold2020\/crouching-tutor-visible-success\/","title":{"rendered":"Crouching Tutor, Visible Success"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 100%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-3423 gallery-columns-1 gallery-size-large'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/floc.org\/flocold2020\/crouching-tutor-visible-success\/headshot_jendoak-2\/'><img width=\"268\" height=\"284\" src=\"https:\/\/floc.org\/flocold2020\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/headshot_jendoak.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><em>(Jennifer Doak tutors in the Tuesday Night Reading program and volunteered to blog about her experiences.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>My first student, to whom I taught reading and language skills over the summer, is a whip-smart, quiet third grader. She likes learning words by drawing pictures and playing games; one time, we jumped for the nouns, crouched down for the adjectives, and acted out the verbs. We even invited her more outgoing cousin, who\u2019s also in FLOC, to join us.<br \/>\nShe preferred to read books that weren\u2019t challenging, but eventually I learned to make deals: Read a few pages of this harder book\u2014just a few more paragraphs\u2014and then we can play a game. It worked, most of the time.<\/p>\n<p>The second, who I\u2019m working with until April, is a bright, boisterous 11-year-old, talkative and easily distracted. She knows all the FLOC staff and has lots of friends here, but it\u2019s occasionally difficult getting her to focus. She prefers interactivity, games with drawing or lots of movement, but between her mom\u2019s hectic schedule and my admittedly infirm grasp of the language learning program we\u2019re using, it\u2019s slow going. I hope we\u2019ll be able to finish out the year having made some progress.<\/p>\n<p>Tutoring takes some getting used to. It\u2019s a matter of negotiation, reading moods and gauging tolerance for stretches of word repetition and sentence reading. It\u2019s also a matter of translation. When learning vocabulary, for example, the first definition that comes to my mind may not be something the student can relate to. If she\u2019s never been outside DC, farm animals or foreign countries won\u2019t register. I\u2019ll throw out different metaphors or comparisons until one sticks.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m not a current or former educator by trade. The closest I got was working for a nonprofit that advocated for a collaborative, forward-thinking teaching model to be implemented in public schools. While there, I read up on the hardworking people who are trying to figure out the secret sauce for higher test scores and engaged students. Overcoming challenges in education isn\u2019t like the multiple-choice quizzes my students sometimes take; even \u201call of the above\u201d won\u2019t do when the options given are insufficient.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s sometimes hard to set aside this big picture, even when working on such a micro level. What does two hours a week matter when faced with the overwhelming issues at hand\u2014issues that my students experience on some level every day? And if what works for one student doesn\u2019t work for another, then wouldn\u2019t it follow that a system that works for one school fails miserably the next town over?<\/p>\n<p>Maybe. But it\u2019s also good to know that students like the two girls I work with, despite these challenges, are getting individual attention from us when their overworked teachers just can\u2019t find the time. It\u2019s encouraging to volunteer for an organization that, in their own small way, recognizes the value of one-on-one time spent learning educational building blocks like literacy and numeracy. I\u2019m probably not the best tutor, and some days I feel like nothing sticks. But I think these students, mine and others, feel there\u2019s value in knowing that tutors are taking the time to try.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Jennifer Doak tutors in the Tuesday Night Reading program and volunteered to blog about her experiences.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3424,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[56],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v15.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Crouching Tutor, Visible Success<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Crouching Tutor, Visible Success\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"(Jennifer Doak tutors in the Tuesday Night Reading program and volunteered to blog about her experiences.)\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/floc.org\/flocold2020\/crouching-tutor-visible-success\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"FLOC-For the Love of Children\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2010-12-03T07:40:54+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2018-10-08T08:21:35+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/floc.org\/flocold2020\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/headshot_jendoak.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"388\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"256\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\">\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"StaffFloc\">\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\">\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\">\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/floc.org\/flocold2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3423"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/floc.org\/flocold2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/floc.org\/flocold2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/floc.org\/flocold2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/floc.org\/flocold2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3423"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/floc.org\/flocold2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5091,"href":"https:\/\/floc.org\/flocold2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3423\/revisions\/5091"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/floc.org\/flocold2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/floc.org\/flocold2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/floc.org\/flocold2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/floc.org\/flocold2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<br />
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