Lane TS #2

Later on the day of May 11th, I observed a child tutoring session of Shanti's. This tutoring session took place in the public library. She was helping the young Michael with reading, and she used candy to give him extrinsic motivation. I noticed that there was an extreme change between tutoring styles for an adult and for a child. With an adult, you have to let them have a certain level of control over the session, since their motivation is intrinsic, whereas with child there can't really be intrinsic motivation at all. Shanti kept having to convince Michael to keep going and to pay more attention, which was a good thing for me to notice because then I began to think of ways to focus the child tutee I would later have over Skype.