KyungAh TP#6

I met with my Korean child tutee on Thursday at 7pm (after my conversation partner). I thought it was going to be too late for me to tutor her today, since it is a two hour session, but her aunt was insistent that she get her tutor hours. So, I went to her house from 7-9pm. From last Saturday, I had assigned her pages for homework to be due the next week. I don't assign on the weekday because I felt it was too short of a time for her to complete homework by the time Saturday comes around. She had completed the homework pages, but she had circled a lot and I asked her what the circled ones meant and she said the ones that she was unsure about. I took out a red crayon and was about to start marking through right and wrong and she immediately stopped me and said in Korean "Ah! Teacher, can you please use something else? I hate that red color pen... it makes me anxious." I knew some kids have anxiety seeing certain color or they put a stimulus on "red" because it links back to bad grades (typically, teachers use red to mark wrong). So, I said smiled and said "okay no problem" and asked her to choose a color she'd like for me to use. She, for the most part, got everything correct, but she just missed a few vocabulary questions. Also, those in-context questions were also some that she missed and I believe that was because she probably didn't know what some of the words meant in the context. After about an hour of doing the grammar books, we took a 15 minute break and then we resumed back to tutoring. On the second half of the hour, we decided to just talk and use English because I felt like she seemed tired and burnt out from a long day.