Being A Tutor: Work Study

When I first arrived at college, I did not expect to do all the things I am doing currently. One of those things would be a tutor, and help other people with their struggles in different classes. I was always good in subjects such as mathematics and science, but never would I have thought I would be a tutor. The reason for it is because I am not an outgoing person. I am not a person who would talk to anybody I do not know, let alone ask them if they need help. I always had the ability to help them but never tried. The reason is because of my speech disability. My stutter prevents me from having the confidence in helping others.
I previously worked in the laboratory at the Los Banos campus as a work study. I liked the job because it is the type of field I wanted to go in. I decided to leave the laboratory to be in the tutorial center so I could face my fears. Without a doubt, it is the best decision of my life. It helped me out speaking to people I don’t know and have confidence in speaking. Because of tutoring, I have gotten a lot better with my public speaking skills. I had enough confidence to be a leader on the high school orientation event. I was a leader for my group and gave them a tour of the campus and shared my college experience. That was the best accomplishment I experienced in my life. Now I have the confidence to do job interviews, public speaking, etc. As for my tutoring experience, I couldn’t have asked for a better one. I had the chance to not only help other students who needed help in school, but I also made new friends with all my co-workers. We also try to help each other to improve on our tutoring skills. We try to advise to each other what we could do different to help our tutee. Also, when one of us do not know how to do a type of problem, someone else would come in and help us tackle the problem. We are like one big happy family, always helping each other out. As to my personal experience with tutoring, I enjoyed every bit of it. I personally tutor people with some sort of disability. I tutor someone who is both deaf and mute, and someone who has a learning disability. At first when I heard I was going to tutor someone with these disability, I felt like it was going to be bad. Bad as in I wouldn’t know if I am going to be able to help them. On the first day I helped them, I wanted to know what exactly do they have problems with, as in studying problems I could help them out. Once I know what exactly they have problems with, I would be able to figure something out that could make their school experience better and easier. What helped me out the most was using all the tips and tricks I learned with the learning modules. From learning about the tips and tricks to study habits and how to improve them, to encouraging group studying. The tip I encouraged the