The tutor continuously engaged the student by checking in frequently, asking directly, "What would you like to get started with?" and "Do you know...?" He consistently encouraged the student to explain their thinking, specifically by saying, "how about you walk me through where you are currently?" when starting the first problem, and later, "how about you walk me through how you did the A part?" for the second question. This approach allowed the student to drive the pace and demonstrate their existing knowledge. What worked well was using open-ended questions like, "Would you like to solve to see what the angle there would be?" to prompt the student toward the next step. To improve, the tutor could try to weave in more frequent, small prompts to explain thinking during the diagram drawing phase, rather than just at the beginning of the problem. Other than that, the tutor did really well. There was no other noticeable or major issues.
Tutor · 8 days ago