I chose tutoring because this is something that I would like to do to help others. I’ve always enjoyed teaching others skills that I know about and through tutoring I feel like I can do that. Being able to see improvement in people I teach a new skill to is nice and I want to be able to do that. Some skills that I am good at are math and english, being able to help others with what I know is the ultimate goal.
From this inquiry I want to achieve helping others with learning or mastering a new skill. Specifically I am looking at teaching younger kids ages 8-11. I want to learn the skills to teach others like coming up with a lesson plan and going through with it. I would like to know the organizational skills for this as well as how to talk to kids and teach them something new.
My inquiry aligns with the effective communicator competency. This is because through teaching someone else a skill I am using communication and I would be able to judge the effectiveness of my material. I am going to portray this competency through showing the material that I will be teaching and reporting the progress that the kid would be having. I will be catering the lesson to the learners needs which would show that I can understand intentions and needs.
To achieve my inquiry goals I will meet on zoom with the kids once a week. The rest of the week I will be coming up with a teaching plan. I have already found two kids who are siblings from Germany and want to be taught english to be better at school and improve their pronunciation. To pursue tutoring even more I will have signed up to the school tutoring sessions and that is also where I can teach others skills. I will break up each month with goals for the kids to have been learned by then. I will be using a book to help with material to teach from as well. The monthly benchmarks will include being able to say a specific sentence with the right pronunciation, to be able to hold a conversation, to be able to say a greeting and understand what I’m saying.
I am going to show my conclusions with the rest of the class by posting blogs on my website every week. In them I will state how the lesson went and what my goals and lesson plans are. My plan that these updates will be a paragraph or more long. For my project about this inquiry I will be using social media, specifically instagram. I will post pictures of the lessons or even clips of them learning as progress reports.