Update..

As I go through session after session with my students, I can honestly see an improvement in their work and their willingness to learn and attend sessions. From the beginning of this program until now (ten weeks into the semester) I feel that the students I've been working with have not only grown more comfortable with the tutoring atmosphere as a whole, but they have also become more comfortable with their own work and asking for help when they feel stuck.

As with all sessions, sometimes I do feel like some of the students, once they hit a certain level where they become comfortable with the tutor, start to slack off, but I do not feel like this has anything to do with the pilot program. I think this may just be an issue students who attend sessions weekly may eventually find themselves falling into.

A common issue a few of my students have had is continuing to read the Gladwell book. They are completeing the assignments to my knowledge, however they have vocalized the fact that they are becoming bored with the book and the assignments, which may or may not be why some of them fall into the previous issue of becoming too comfortable and not doing their work or bringing it into sessions.

Back to the positive, since it definately has outweighed the negative this whole semester; I don't know if it's just me or if the other tutors feel the same, but this program has made me more vested in helping these students out than before. Since I am familiar with the assignments and the course material I am not relying on just the students to inform me about what is going on in class. With five weeks left in the semester, I hope I will be informed that this pilot program will continue on in the spring. =]