I believe a fundamental goal of teaching is to inspire curiosity and genuine interest in subject matter. There are many ways to teach and to learn, and an effective teacher is familiar with more than one.

Make the student feel at ease, especially if this is their first time being tutored. After that, figure out what their strengths and weaknesses are. Write up a quick plan of attack on subject matter. And if the session goes well, schedule another session and make longer term plan.

Teach effective study skills. Reinforce good habits and find ways to reduce bad ones. And often I try to find a way to connect what they're learning to real life, to teach its applications and foster interest in subject matter.

Depends on what is "unmotivating" them. The most common factor is difficulty of material, and thinking "I'm never going to understand this in time" or "Maybe I'm just stupid." These are feelings I've had myself, and I would address those issues depending on the situation.

There's always several ways to teach the same concept, I just keep using a different one until the student gets it. But if it's an issue of the student being upset or frustrated, I have us take a step back from the material and address that first.

Depends on what exactly is causing the issues. Is English a second language? Is there a reading disorder? Dyslexia? Is the vocabulary too hard? I teach the sciences mainly so there's ways around it sometimes by using charts or graphs.

My strategy to be flexible, creative, and to tailor the tutoring to each individual student and their situation has been most successful. The only thing that stays the same is my original assessment of each student, which aims to get to know the student and their strengths and weaknesses.

I mentioned in earlier questions that I think getting a student interested in subject matter or getting them to look at it "in a new light" is fundamental. Connecting material to real world examples makes students think about the material in their day to day life, which in turn improves memory recall.

They say that if you can't teach the material, you don't understand it. After a period of time has passed, I would have the student explain concepts back to me in their own words and/or test them.

I had a problem with "confidence in a subject" in the higher maths. Even after completing a problem, I was rarely confident it was right. Doing a high volume of problems and getting a high % of them right fix this. Low confidence is usually the result of the opposite of that.

First I let the student tell me where they think they are strong/weak. Then I test them to see if their assessment of themselves is correct. It happens often enough that a student isn't as strong in a subject as they think they are.

A fundamental of my tutoring style is to develop new, creative ways to teach a concept on the spot. This can only be done effectively by having a good grasp of the subject matter, and by having an accurate analysis of the student’s abilities. Each situation would be unique.

I have textbooks on hand if needed, but the internet is a near limitless resource of information. It's great to be able to send a student links of websites that they can study on their own after the session is up.