School to prison pipeline

                                                         school to prison pipeline
     
          Today in class we watched clips regarding to high school and middle school student suspended from school because they get involved in criminal issues. Student in high school get suspended because they don't follow the rules of the school I was surprise to see many young youth are getting involve in criminal issues and going to prison. I think the reason why student get suspend  and go to prison is because of some stress they have in life.According to the clip as someone said " children are children we have to make the children become good adults " The adults are the role model for the children in society. Adults should set up good example for the children for being a good person. To avoid criminal issue and student getting suspend from school,  the environment we live in should be good enough.The environment effect the children alot. It effect there behavior as well. I believe the school rules should be strict enough so the student stay in fear of doing anything wrong and don't get suspend from school.

second observation at writing center

                                                                      Second observation

My second observation was different from the fist one. The student came in and it seems like he was really excited and happy to be at the writing center. The tutor intrude himself, then he introduce me to the student that i am here to observe the student was new in lagcc. He is going to take the CAT W exam so he was at the writing center to write a good unique essay.The tutor asked the student what was his assignment was all about.The student seems to understand what was his assignment was about, He had problem having argument about his thesis. His main problem was that he couldn't give reasons and evidence to support his thesis.  it was so awkward when the tutor ask the student to give a reason why he choice this thesis and the student didn't say anything instead he was laughing for no reason. So the tutor helped the student to find reasons and evidence from the article. During the session most of the time the student was laughing and smiling for no reason, I didn't understand why he was acting that way. The student needs help where to use the right quote in the essay.He also need help with having a clear topic sentence in every paragraph. He had some really useful and good information but didn't know how to organize the information in a good way.The tutor give the student very useful hand out it was worksheet that shows the correct for-mate of an essay. The tutor was really helpful because he explained the student in details when to use quote and how to have a strong thesis with strong evidence, It seems like the tutor really cared about the student passing the CATW exam. I think its a good idea to give students hand out which will help them develop a good essay. Some hand outs can be really useful for student. The tutor shared outside information with the student by giving the worksheet.

first day of tutoring eng 101 students

                                                 experience of first day tutoring

          Today was my first day of tutoring eng 101 student. I introduce my self to them. I was able to tutor two student at a time. I was feeling so  nervous about it. There assignment was about biculturalism. They needed to use resource in order to write the paper, So i told them about the library data base that will be very helpful for there paper. On the other hand the two student were talking to much to each other and I didn't know what to do or say to them because it was my first day working with them. They had some good ideas about biculturalism  and i told them to include all the ideas they had in there paper. It better to use outside information as well. I didn't talk much because i didn't know what to say. Most of the time I was just listening to there conversation about different topics. I was feeling so un comfortable that I forgot to ask there names. They told me they are not smart and intelligent student but by the conversation they were havingI figured that they are intelligent and creative students. But i didn't knew much about there topic so i couldn't help them much. I told them where they can find useful information. The two student had there outline basically it was free writing. They wrote down ideas they had about biculturalism. It was really quiet interesting ideas that they brain storm of free writing. They need to think about a good thesis.I suggest them to use these ideas and key words in there paper to look strong enough. I strongly suggest them to have strong argument with example and evidence to support there claim. The students that i was working with were very active and hyper. They just couldn't stop talking which kind of annoyed me in some way. well it was that bad tutoring and sort of helping the eng. 101 student. I even learned something from the student. One thing that a student say that everyone is learning. Thats true we are still learning. Experiencing As a tutor we are still learning as much as we can. None can ever stop of learning new stuff everyday.  I am glad i am having experiencing tutor student and also observing the writing center as well. Having new experience  helps us having more knowledge about something. 

oberving at the writing center

                                     
                                                                          Observing at the writing center

Today was my first day observing the writing center. It was a new experience for me. The tutor introduce me to the student that was there for help, so she can feel comfortable that i am there. The student explained the tutor in  detail what was her assignment was all about. The student was very tense that her professor  made many comments to fix the paper.The student assignment was to write a paper about the video they watched in class.The tutor went through the paper and saw that they were many sentence structure errors, grammar issues, organizing the information in a well written paragraph, also there were some repeated phases.Then the tutor read the paper with the student together. The tutor main focus was on her grammar and sentience structure.While the tutor was reading the paper with the student, the tutor was telling the students to fix the mistakes that she made. The tutor basically was telling everything to the student what needs to be fixed , the students just fixed the mistakes that the tutor told her without asking any question.The students paper was much longer and the tutor said " this never going to end, but we are almost there " the tutor got annoyed by fixing the students grammar, But the tutor was still calm and patient.The student payed full attention to the tutor.She was really focusing on what was the tutor saying to her.I really like that.At the end of the session the tutor tell the student what she needs to work on the most. The tutor even asked me if I had any question. The tutor felt comfortable of me being there and observing.The student comment that this tutor was very helpful then other tutor in the writing center. It was a good experience for me observing the writing center for the first time. 

Sir Ken Robinson says school kill creativity

                                                           Sir Ken Robinson says schools kill creativity

Hi my name is Fizza Shakeel I am taking Eng 220. I am writing this blog because we saw a video that  I think was really important to share with everyone. I think everyone should have a chance to watch this video at least once in there life time. You can get lots of information that would help and is useful at some point.

Sir ken Robinson says that All children are born creative and intelligent. Children doesn't show there intelligence because for some reason. I think every student is unique in there own way. Sir Robinson also mentioned that children are afraid to make mistake. I agree to this statement. Most student don't participate in class at all because they are afraid that they might say something wrong. The teacher should give the students the confidence that its okay if we make mistake and being wrong. We learn from our mistake. He also mentioned that having a degree is important. I strongly agree with that. The higher degree you have the higher your pay will be. The more knowledge we have the more facilities we get in life. These days education is the key to success in life. The three creativity that sir ken Robson mention are Diversity, Dynamic, Distinct.    

This blog is about a video of "The Texting Student"

This video is about a tutor who was tutoring a student. The student was recently texting while she was at the writing center with a tutor. It was so disrespectful. It was even more rude when the tutor told the student to read her paper at loud,the student told the tutor " wait a minute "because she was busy texting during her tutor session. The student wasn't even paying attention at all. The tutor got so annoyed by the student.The tutor was just staring at the student and kept reading her paper.

When starting a tutor session the tutor should tell the rules to the students. If the student text during the session the tutor should tell them to stop. According to the video the tutor didn't give a warning to the student at least once, I believe this was not right. A writer center should have a rule that when being in the writer center all electronic advice should be put away.