# 2nd day at the PLC (3:33-5:11)
You
have no idea how much I didn’t want to go back to the PLC. Well, I guess you could guess it from the two
weeks of gap between the first time and the next time I went to the PLC. I was too embarrassed to meet Gariuan
again. Actually, I didn’t want to have
to see her again because I was not confident about myself teaching something or
anything to her.
Just as
I (selfishly) wished, Gariuan wasn’t in the room today, so I got to tutor a
different student named Ayla. She needed
help with Chemistry, which I haven’t even looked at for almost three years;
however, I felt a little bit more confident with Chemistry than Language Arts
although I’m an English major. I know it’s
ironic and somewhat embarrassing to think or feel this way, but this is how
much diffident I am about English. I’ve
always had this mind that I’m not good at English in general because this is my
second-language and just because.
Whole
story in short, I gained some confidence back from today’s tutoring. On almost all tests and quizzes I helped
Ayla, we got 100%. Because I needed to
refresh my Chemistry brain, I watched the online lecture with her and tried
solving the problems with her, looking up some extra information on the
internet. So, it was more like a study
group than a tutor session, but anyway the result was better. And, she told me I was pretty and “THANK YOU
FOR HELPING ME! I WOULDN’T HAVE BEEN ABLE TO GET A 100 WITHOUT YOUR HELP.” My eyes almost teared up when she told me
that, and I thought to myself “perhaps, this is what gets teachers going.”
I still
had problems with speaking eloquently and explaining things effectively to my
student, but Ayla seemed to follow me pretty well. I don’t know if she was just following my
explanations and my assumed answers because she didn’t know the answers
herself. I don’t know, but it felt AWESOME because she respected my
explanations and guesses, and most importantly because my guessed answers were
correct! After the PLC, I ran to my
neighbor’s room and told her what happened today. I was so happy, and my neighbor wanted to try
out this service learning as well after seeing me all excited and happy. Today was a very important day for me because
it reduced my fear of going to the PLC.
-
Jin Kim, 11:00pm 02/15/12
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