Daniel

Things a student memorizes they will forget quickly. But things that they understand they will remember forever. When working on concepts the student is struggling with, I try to tie the concepts back either to concepts they've already previously learned in the class, or to things they may intuitively know from their lives. If they understand why something is the way it is, that makes it so much easier to remember. How can you help a student become an independent learner? The biggest thing a tutor or teacher can do for a student's academic career is to help the student learn how to learn. There are a variety of different tools a student can use to try to learn material, and some of them are more appropriate than others depending on the situation. For a student to become independent, they need to learn what these tools are, which ones they best respond to, and what situations they work best in.