Me & My city tutoring day

We were tutoring at a Me & My city day and here are our thoughts and things we learned during that day.

• I learned that you need to be really patient when working with kids because they have a hard time concentrating for a long time. Personally I learned by making mistakes, having to explain something multiple times taught me that you need to come up with creative ways to guide kids.

• I learned that you need to go through everything in detail, to make sure they understand. They’re really young in a new interesting environment so they don’t really want to focus on instructions so you need to be prepared to repeat yourself sometimes. I learned by observing what way of instructing works the best.

• I learned that young children want someone to trust on. They also need a lot of guiding and support since they are working in a new environment and with new people. During the day I learned many things about how to guide children while working because there was not that much background information.

• I learned that when working with kids especially as a tutor, they need to feel comfortable with what they're doing and that they can openly ask for help from anyone of they have anything to ask. Also your attitude will reflect on the children and how they think and work

• I realised that learning comes from within. The kids that didn’t want to be there didn’t learn anything. Everyone else learned a lot so nothing is impossible to learn, it’s all about the attitude.