The tutor

            As a tutor, I am focused on taking care and tracking of my students during their learning process. My role is never to give tutees direct answers but to help my tutees learn to find answers for themselves.

Students who come for tutoring are struggling with a problem that they cannot solve. Sometimes the problem is vague ("I read this chapter, but I don't know what it means") or sometimes very specific ("I have worked all of the problems at the end of this chapter, and I can get the answer in the back of the book except for this one factoring problem").

Our responsibility is to help the tutee learn how to learn on his/her own. We are not responsible for just providing an answer; rather we should provide the process that the student can learn to find his/her own answers. Tutors as "model students" should be helping tutees become "master students." Tutors also help provide an open environment in which learning can take place.

Tutors recognize the fact that they have to work on the student's level of understanding hoping to help the student reach the tutor's level of understanding.

Successful tutors should possess qualities such as:

- show patience and provide appropriate "thinking" time for their tutees.

- encourage their tutees.

- are sensitive to any cultural differences among their tutees.

- relate successful study strategies to their tutees.

- use questioning rather than an answering strategy.

- pay attention to the uniqueness of each tutee, and we should be aware of any self-esteem issues for students who are struggling.

The tutor action is part of the education system and the tutor position has special relevance due to the fact that they will be in contact with family and the rest of teacher who are teaching this group; helping colleagues, parents and students.

Understanding the tutor time as an educative resource, I have planned some session thinking of 2º ESO group which I will develop during academic year.

This proposal is planned with 18 sessions, developing during the three terms of current academic year and they are organized around 5 themes part: group, improve study techniques, healthy habits, coexistence and making decisions. To these parts, I will add pre and post evaluation results every term. The organization will be the next table:

First term:

Parts	Session
The group	1. Presentation of 2º ESO and the tutor
	2. Another year together
	3. Class´s goals
	4. Students´ Rights and responsibilities. Coexistence rules
Improve the study	5. How to prepare and perform an oral exposition
Healthy habits	6. Personal image
Coexistence	7. Nonverbal communication
Evaluation	First term  pre-evaluation

Second term:

Parts	Session
Evaluation	Analyse first-term results
Improve the study	8. How study different subjects
	9. Methods to take notes in class
Healthy habits	10.Social media and internet
Coexistence	11.Teenagers environment and risks.
Making decisions	12. Moral dilemmas
Evaluation	Second term  pre-evaluation

Third term:                                      

Parts	Session
Evaluation	13. Review strategies.
Improve the study	14. Tobacco
Healthy habits	15. Safe sex. Use your brain.
Coexistence	16. Empathy
	17. Assertive answers
Making decisions	18. Promotion and expectation for next academic year
Evaluation	Third term  pre-evaluation