EDU 345 SFA Tutoring Final Exam (Summative Report)

Fall 2018

Emily Herrmann
 Introduction of Tutee

Juan is a male and a first grade student. Juan has a lot of siblings. He has siblings that are

older with children and baby brothers. He has a few nephews that are around his age that he

spends a lot of his time with. The two things he never failed to talk about during our sessions

were football and his family and he very clearly loved both of them very much.

Pre-assessment and Formative Results

#1 Pre-assessment

During the pre-assessment, it was clear that Juan struggled with Phonemic Awareness in

all three aspects. Through assessing him in this section, it was very obvious to me that he did not

know all of his letter sounds and what letters they were related to. However, when I assessed him

on Concepts of Print, he had no problem showing me that he knew every single one of them. By

the time we got to Letter Skills, I already had an idea of how well he knew his letters and sounds;

however, I was pleasantly surprised to see him get through the first two sets of LS1. When we

did LS2 and LS3, I could see a pattern of the letters that he did not know very well and what we

should work on. While he did better than I expected in the Letter Skills section, because he

struggled so much with Phonemic Awareness, we started his tutoring with Lesson Plan 1.

#2 Re-assessment/formative report 1

Phonemic Awareness:

120%
100% Pre-
80% assessment
60% Reassessment
40% 1
20% Reassessment
0% 2
PA 1 PA 2 PA 3
Letter Skills 1:

45
40
35
30
25 Letters Correct
20
15 Letters
10 Incorrect
5
0 Letters Not
Asked

Letter Skills 2:

30
25
20
Letters Correct
15
10
Letters
5 Incorrect
0 Letters Not
Asked

Letter Skills 3:

30
25
20
15
10 Letters Correct
5
0
Letters
Incorrect
Sight words:

When I tested Juan in sight words during the first re-assessment, he only got three right.

It was very clear that we were going to have to dedicate some time to these words. The next time

I re-assessed him, he got 12 right in the first set and seven right in the second set! By the time I

was finishing tutoring him, we had moved onto the third set!

Word Skills:

When I re-assessed Juan and went through word skills, he was able to master the first set

and could not make it through the second set. When I re-assesse him again, he mastered all the

way up through the fifth set!

Summative Assessment Results

Juan really surprised me this semester. After the pre-assessment, I did not have a lot of

confidence that we were going to get very far. We started our first tutoring plan by singing the

alphabet song and going through all their sounds because he did not know them. However, he

ended up really working hard with me and while I think he proved me wrong in every area, I

think he especially excelled in the areas of Phonemic Awareness and Sight Words. Once he got

Phonemic Awareness down, the rest of the parts of the lesson flowed a lot better and he knew it

and was proud of himself. When it came to sight words, he was not a fan. He would get so

frustrated when he got them wrong. I was constantly talking to him about how they do not follow

rules so they are going to be hard. However, half way through the second tutoring plan he started

to love them and he LOVED seeing me write the m’s on each sight word as he mastered them.

After the second re-assessment, we started working on the third set of sight words. He knew

about half of them by the time I had to leave and ended up taking the entire set of flashcards

home after our last lesson to work on them himself.

 Final Recommendation for Tutee

He is a quiet student at first and seems like he is quiet in the classroom and may

sometimes get overlooked. I think Juan really thrives off of positive personalized encouragement

from adults which is why I would suggest that he keeps getting some one-on-one time with an

adult. He improved so much with me that I feel like if the individual attention does not continue

he might fall back behind.

Two Significant Ideas That You Learned In This Experience

Something that I learned during this experience is the ability to differentiate instruction

on the spot if something is not working. I think that that is a very necessary skill to have as a

teacher and something that I really had to practice during tutoring when my students just were

not responding to the activity the way I wanted them to. Another thing would be that student

specific praise can really affect a student. They hear the “good job” or “you did great” all the

time but taking the time to look them in the eyes and tell them exactly what they did well really

impacts them more than I thought.

In the article The Importance of Early Childhood Poverty (Duncan, Magnuson, Kalil, &

Ziol-Guest 2012) the author discussed the effects poverty has on adults if they lived in poverty as

children. I thought this was very interesting because I could tell that my tutees both live in some

degree of poverty. After reading the article, it motivated me to dedicate more time with my

students to possibly help them not end up struggling as adults because of how they grew up.

In the article The Opioid Epidemic: 7 Things Educators Need to Know (Welsh, Rappaport

& Tretyak 2017) the authors discuss signs that teachers should be aware of that show that

students could be addicted or using drugs. It did not have any application in this specific teaching

setting because I was working with first graders; I thought it was so important to be educated on
as a future teacher. Implementing ways to see these signs and know what to do is going to be so

important in the next couple years as people my age start to show up in the teaching world.