Hi Guys,
Today I had the opportunity to observe Ashley’s session with her Business Studies student in lead up to the Business HSC Exam. The tutoring session was based around the student asking clarifying questions and Ashley answering these as well as planning essay responses based on syllabus requirements. Ashley used clear communication and continuous discussion to engage with her student throughout the session.
Ashley guided her responses to students’ questions with clear definitions and examples, targeting them towards HSC questions and expectations for the exam. Giving the examples of questions and giving response guidelines was very informative to the student making expectations of questions and content very clear. Ashley also guided her session using the syllabus, a very crucial tool for business studies, always coming back to this to guide the student. Ashley made crucial links within the syllabus, for example drawing connections between operations influences and operations strategies to guide the student’s detail in responses as well as reaching a critical thinking level of response.
Additionally, they discussed the use of case studies and how they link to specific syllabus points, guiding answers for Section 4 of the exam. This process both helped with the student’s memory of the case studies as well as giving real world examples to make the content easier to understand. The session was very collaborative between Ashley and her student, with Ashley guiding her student through responding and asking leading questions throughout the session to inform and encourage her student. They focused on core business functions guiding how a Business Studies essay can be written in reflection to this, creating plans to ensure key syllabus points were addressed.
This session was great to observe, in particular her use connection between content and examples was very informative!
Grace Blatch
