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Techniques and methods in Language Teaching > Having a tutor in my class for the first time! Advice, please!
Having a tutor in my class for the first time! Advice, please!
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carinita
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Having a tutor in my class for the first time! Advice, please!
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Hi!Today I started working in a 2nd course at secondary school (I �m teaching several courses of English at the moment) In this course, there is also a tutor working. This tutor knows the group, she took the post before I took mine...I �m a substitute teacher. I realized today that she is great at connecting with those students. They are 14 year old and more closer to her in age than to me. She is not a teacher. Tutors in my country are not usually teachers. They often manage English but haven �t pursued a teaching career. The thing is...she speaks/ moves around the classroom and most of the students are mesmerized!! I �m not that attractive (((to them  ))) and I think it is going to be difficult for me to get their attention. Students have English twice a week and the tutor si coming only once a week for 40 minutes. Should I ask her to present a specific gramatical structure? In which ways could I get profit of her "stage" or "acting" abilities. WHAT SHOULD I ASK HER TO DO?? Help me in this one, please  P.S. One of the students boldly asked: Who is more important the teacher or the tutor? I was like  and the tutor said "Both are important" |
28 Apr 2014
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Doot
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We don �t have tutors in Canada but we do have Support workers as well as Student Assistants who get their mark for assisting in my class. Although they are all important in the classroom, at the end of the day I am the teacher and have gone to university to do this job. I have worked with TA �s at the university level and they support students, they work one on one with students having difficulties or they could even take out a group and do something with them but they Do Not teach the class. You will confuse this group as to who the teacher is. If you need some time to connect with the group, keep her busy with other tasks for a class or two such as photocopying, cutting activity cards, marking etc and this allows you some time to be the key person in the classrrom. Hope that helps.
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28 Apr 2014
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carinita
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Interesting comment, thanks |
28 Apr 2014
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s.lefevre
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Do you really know what her task is? Why she is there and what is expected.
If you don �t know, ask a fellow teacher with some experience with tutors or
your principal. Once you know what she should do, you should talk to her and
make it clear which task each person has in the classroom. She is not there to
take initiatives; she is there to follow your leading. That doesn �t mean that
she can �t have good ideas, she just has to tell you first and you decide what
will be done in the classroom. It might be quite interesting for you to have a
helper.
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29 Apr 2014
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