Two wheels of tutorial action

Monday 12

The role of the tutor has been the topic of today. We have done a dinamic activity in which our teacher splited us in two circles and we had to answer some questions in three minutes each. When the time finished, the people who was on the inside circle had to change their position with the partners next to them. With this methodology every member of the class worked with different people for each question, one circle was the one which always were moving and the other one wait on their sit for a new partner to work with.

We have to answer questions related with: agent of guidance; recipient of guidance; a collaborator of the counselling), the intellectual and technical preparation and the attitudes and personal characteristics of tutors.

In school guidance the tutor is a collaborator of the counselling and psychopedagogical intervention and has a relevant place because he is the one who takes the initiative and is responsible of developing in the correct way the PAT and act according to its results, but he also needs the help of the guidance team for choosing specific measures.

The tutor should have specific characteristics, both professional and personal. He should be a qualified teacher, able to teach students through different methodologies, responsible of the interaction and motivation of students, he should be able to detect problems and to apply the specific techniques to solve it. In terms of personal features; a tutor should be a balance person, mature, transmitting stability to their students, sensitive to perceive problems of students and to solve it, affective and friendly because we cannot forget that the tutors are in class for helping the students and they need to be cautious people but also sensible and affective.

At the end of the class the teacher took our activity and started asking randomly and we put in common our ideas.