Serious Question: New Mentor seeking community advice on dealing with bad players.

[Ranylyn]

I fear i rambled a bit there, but hopefully that helps~

As an IRL tutor, myself, everything you just said makes perfect sense to me. While I've never had a student who TRULY "refused" to learn, they were ALL resistant, because they were falling through the cracks of the education system so how could I help them when the professionals couldn't?

I guess that's where this urge to be a better mentor is coming from, if I had to guess. I've never "failed" to teach a student before. It was always just a matter of working with them for a bit, learning how they learn, recontextualizing their classwork into a format they can digest, and once we have proof it works, start teaching them how to convert the things their textbooks and teachers say INTO that format. For example, for someone who just looks at a wall of text and locks up, it was sometimes a matter of things like color coded charts to break it up into easily digestible pieces, etc.

The thing is... that's a process that takes WEEKS. I have MINUTES with players in FF14. I can't compare the two experiences, they're apples and car tires.

Thanks for helping me put it into perspective by bringing up the school teacher angle. You've really helped me a lot, and I'm very grateful!


You too, SturmChurro! You've given me a lot to think about!