The tutor fostered an Advanced rapport, opening the session with a warm peer-to-peer conversation about college apps and stress. She created a highly supportive and safe learning environment where Katie felt comfortable admitting confusion (I'm getting confused now, I don't recollect it that well). Wylene used consistent and positive reinforcement for correct answers and handled moments of her own confusion and student errors with humor and empathy (It's a Tuesday afternoon It's okay, it's okay, no worries). Her overall manner was highly encouraging and celebrating successes (Yeah, I think you have the hang of it, Yay!) and assuring Katie that tricky calculations like those with negatives were manageable ("you got this").
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