What to expect of me

How I should conduct a tutorial (further suggestions welcome)

This is what I’m trying to do in each session:

• Start with What questions do you have this week? Or What would you like to talk about today?
• Give time and space for you to think
• Not take over
  • Allow you the opportunity to talk and write on the whiteboard
• Check you are understanding what is being said/written on the whiteboard
• Prompt you to question things I feel you may be unsure about
• Prompt you to take an active part 
  • Can you show me what you mean?
  • Can you put an example on the whiteboard?
• Challenge you to:
  • Ask better questions
  • Write a better, clearer solution
    • How could you make that clearer?
• Not hog the limelight
• Be generous with praise

Of course, inevitably, I will do a lot of talking, but over time we want to achieve a better balance whereby you feel confident to think out loud, and to question things.

So you should expect me to give you the chance to:

• Have time to talk/answer/think out loud to allow you to develop your thoughts
• Question anything you are not sure of
• Explain what you mean
• Be encouraged to improve
• Be challenged
• Be praised where deserved

I have to write this down as I have a terrible tendency to take over tutorials. So please do not let me! It is your tutorial! Please endeavour to make the best use of your hour.