My teaching philosophy is to remain patient, help students gain confidence, and knowing my student's learning styles. Every person does not learn the same way, so it's important to take the time to know your client and adjust the teaching to fit how the person learns best.

In a typical first session, I will try to learn my student's history with the subject, find out how my student learns best, and find out all relevant information about what the student is trying to accomplish.

I can help a student become an independent learner by teaching learning techniques that are transferable no matter what the subject. There are many study tricks and patterns that can be extremely beneficial when learned the correct way.

Everybody is motivated differently. A student might get motivated when he/she sees the value of learning the subject, notices that they are improving in knowledge, or by seeing results in grades. I help students stay motivated by learning what the goal of the session is, and tracking progress in completing it.

If a student has difficulty learning a concept/skill, I try to approach it from a different angle. There's no sense in continuing to pursue a technique that is not working. Rather, explain a topic in a new way or with a new type of learning.

A strategy that I have found to be successful when starting with a new student is learning what that student is very interested in, and finding related questions in the topic we are studying. If a student is motivated by sports, music, art, etc., I will do my best to find examples of them related to the topic we are learning so they have a real desire to learn it.

Many students struggle with a subject when they feel they "just aren't good at it," have had bad experiences with the teacher, or cannot find a way to see how the subject will be relevant to their life. I ask students their thoughts about the subject we are working in, and then I will try to find an exciting way to keep them engaged.

Every student learns material differently. Some students learn best when they are taught auditorily. Others are visual, and many students learn well when working through an example step-by-step with a tutor. It's important to me that my teaching style is adjusted to whatever is the most beneficial for the student.

I build student's confidence in a subject by scaling a difficult question in multiple pieces. Rather than trying to teach a complicated problem in one big swoop, I will break down the problem into all the skills needed to solve it, and then progress to the final solution.

There are many different ways to evaluate a student's needs such as self-report, looking at the student's grades, and having the student show their skills in person. I believe that a good tutor uses a combination of many different techniques to make an evaluation on what the student can use to succeed.

As a teacher of high school mathematics, I would see 120 students every day and have a difficult job of teaching to each student's needs. I have experience teaching a variety of subjects in multiple ways. I like to teach a subject multiple ways each time so a student can see different perspectives on how to reach the solution.