First session and creative writing

First session as solo consultant:

This session was completely different than any other session that I have observed or co-consulted on up to this point. The client was a senior undergrad who was working on preparing a resume and a personal statement for medical school applications, although she had no specific schools in mind yet. Because she did not have a specific audience in mind it was difficult to help her brainstorm for a personal statement. We went through her resume and I made some suggestions about changing the order and the layout of the font, but nothing too major. Then we just brainstormed ideas for her personal statement and together we were able to create an outline. The outline showed where she would focus on particular aspects of education or experience information. She acted like this helped her a lot, and told me that the hardest part of writing a paper for her is knowing where and how to start. She seemed to have an idea of that after our session. I attempted to stay for a second session, but the client was not there after 15 mins, so I gave up on them and left.


This week in class:

I found the writings/conversations/focus on special population tutoring pretty interesting. All in all I feel like a tutor should have several different tutoring methods or ideas that they are willing to try, although there will of course be the few that are primarily used and effective. I don't feel there is a need to specify what should be used when, the tutor should just adapt to the session and tutor as best as they can.
Going into the literacy project I fully expected the third part: creative remix, to be my complete least favorite. However, it turns out I was wrong. I decided to write a short story for my piece and I have found it extremely interesting and exciting to write. I took more of a children's literature approach to my story, and I really enjoyed working on it. This was a surprise to me, because until now I have never really enjoyed, or felt at all confident, while writing creatively.