Jamaal Gill TS #3

I met with David today for the first time and he was just as Professor Kim described. It was as if he had an agenda of his own and nobody wasn't going to interfere with it. He was hard to talk to at first because he wouldn't want to do any work. I would try and engage him in conversation trying to figure out what he likes to do on his free time. Every boy at that age likes games in some form or another so I started listing out games that I played that I'm sure that he would've played. That's when his eyes lit up. He loves shooting games and fighting games a lot more than I did at that age. This makes sense with the progression of technology though. His mother seems to be an easygoing woman but she is strict with him when it comes to using technology or playing violent video games. So, I was relieved that we could connect on some level but for the purposes of our tutoring sessions, he still would have to do some work. I couldn't just let him play games all the time so like every gamer, I looked towards YouTube. YouTube's a major source of information for gamers and that's where I caught David's real attention. Then he starts talking like crazy about all the different YouTube channels he watches. Some were game reviews and children shows but then I found out that he loves nature. It's something that he won't talk to you about unless you specifically ask him and even then you might not even get a straight answer. So after our first session, I found out he loves a certain nature channel on YouTube called BraveWilderness. So I've decided to model some of our future sessions off of this. I look forward to the challenge of whether I can appeal to his inner strengths in some way through the use of YouTube videos.