To be honest, when I heard about tutoring I was a little nervous. I have worked with kids before at basketball camps and summer camps, but I never had helped someone with their school work unless it was a classmate or my little brother. I’m not exactly good at teaching things; I am more of a Kinesthetic Learner, so when I found out I would be helping kids learn to read I wasn’t exactly sure I would be a great teacher. I also found when I was younger when i had tutoring, it was never fun and I didn’t feel like I was learning much. My opinion soon changed when I started tutoring. I found that it was actually fun helping the kids; they would usually say something silly or funny while attempting to learn a big word or something they did not understand. The activity my kids enjoyed the most was reading a book that either had to do with animals, dinosaurs or some form of action reading like discovering something. They also enjoyed the fact that if we had enough time we could draw a picture of everything we just read to make sure that they understood the story. Overall, I enjoyed my experience tutoring at Peabody. It honestly wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be, and I was a better tutor than I thought I could be. This is something that I would like to do again next year.
Aramis Judson
Class of 2015
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