Need Advice On Tutoring..

Okay well heres the deal, my grandmother called me other day and asked if I could come by and help her neighbor with a computer problem (They live in a senior citizens building).

So I go there and go with my grandmother down to the womans apartment. We sit there at her laptop as she asks me various questions which I will list below. So we are there for a good 15 minutes and my grandmother leaves and now its just me and the woman and 15 minutes later we wrap it up and she dismisses me and gives me $20 bucks.

I think she wants me to help her because she gets free computet lessons from a teacher at a local high school. This guy will not help anyone after class she says he tells them he only is paid for class hours and not to stay extra. She also tells me she had trouble seeing the screen when its projected.

She then asks if i can call her for a time for me to come back next week..So I am going to call her tomorrow or Monday afternoon, but I am unsire what to do when I get there like if I should plan out a lesson or what.

Heres what she had me do. Keep in mind she asked me about this.

1) She asked how to disable her popup blocker so a window for cheaptickets would appear for her homework for her computer class.

2) She asked me how to search for stuff in Google. She needed to look up entertainment in Colorado Springs, CO for her computer class.

3) She then asked me how to open Microsoft Office so she can type a eocument for her class but I told her she had to pay for it and she waa willing to. I then siggestto try and use WordPad and she was pleased with that so I taught her how to open WordPad.

 

And the question is........................

 

Welcome to CHF!

Like Alan I wonder how it is that you want us to help you?? You are already $20.00 ahead of the game.

 

You take $20 from an old lady and don't know too much - and you want our advice for free.
That makes a lot of sense !!

Has my avatar got "mug" written on my hat?

 

No but it will!

 

I guess I was asking if I should ever plan out lessons for when I go to tutor her. Or if I should just keep going as the way it is where she asks me what she needs to do and take it from there.

 

I get it now. The first thing I would do is decide what it is you feel she needs to know. Then divide your time between what you have planned to show her and leave the rest for her questions. Just make sure she know the basics and that you have her machine properly protected.

You should also be sure to create restore points so that you can try to undo anything that she may mess up in your absence.