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Undergraduate Degree: DAV college - Bachelors, Biological Sceicnes
Graduate Degree: Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) - PHD, Microbiology, Biochemistry
Microbiology research, Exploring microbial diversity from nature for extremophiles, Playing Soccer, Tennis, Chess.
- Cell Biology
- Developmental Biology
- Evolutionary Biology
- Immunology
- Medicine
- Microbiology
- Molecular Biology
- Science
What might you do in a typical first session with a student?
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Set the goals and strategies to achieve them
How can you help a student become an independent learner?
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Setting up activities 2. Formative feedback
How would you help a student stay motivated?
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Create new challenges 2. Set attainable goals 3. Acknowledge students' accomplishments
If a student has difficulty learning a skill or concept, what would you do?
Identify the lack of understanding, and determine whether or not need to review a previous lecture or take a fresh approach to the concept to be learned.
How do you help students who are struggling with reading comprehension?
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Identify what and what difficulties are occurring.2. Use an audio- visual learning approach.
What strategies have you found to be most successful when you start to work with a student?
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Setting up the goals 2. Ways to achieve the goals 3. Creative planning with a lesson plan 4. Making basic fundamentals clear
How would you help a student get excited/engaged with a subject that they are struggling in?
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Create new challenges 2. Start with a question rather than an answer 3. Constructive feedback.4. Find clues to correct from the student's answer
What techniques would you use to be sure that a student understands the material?
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Student evaluations 2. Review and checking on concepts 3. Preparation and implementation of examples.
How do you build a student's confidence in a subject?
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Praise and acknowledge the student's accomplishments, both in private and in front of their classmates.2. Set attainable goals.3. Express a positive attitude.4. Create opportunities for students to succeed by building on their strengths.5. Encourage students to do better than they did before.
How do you evaluate a student's needs?
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Student's portfolio 2. Pre-test 3. Student's self-report
How do you adapt your tutoring to the student's needs?
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Pre-teach difficult vocabulary.2. Provide audiovisuals of scientific pathways.3. Provide detailed explanation of difficult concepts 4. Provide written responses, etc.
What types of materials do you typically use during a tutoring session?
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Webcam.2. PowerPoint slides.3. Online resources to explore the details.4. Online videos from scientific websites.
What is your teaching philosophy?
The main purpose of education is to learn, but one must realize not all students learn in the same manner. My teaching philosophy centers on providing the best possible environment, multiple ways of learning the material, and all of the additional tools necessary for my students to learn. To fully implement this style of teaching requires great expectations from both my students and me. Each and every one of us experiences the science of life every day, and in teaching the course “Biology for non-scientists” I strove to make my students aware of this fact. This strategy helps students to learn more aggressively. Variety of formats in learning help students of different backgrounds. For this reason, I use lectures, visual learning aids, computer exercises, organized notes, diagrams and current events to present course material.