
Mustansir
Certified Tutor
Undergraduate Degree: Indian Institute of Technology, India - Bachelors, Civil Engineering
Graduate Degree: CEPT University, India - Masters, Urban and Regional Planning
Playing with numbers, magic math, soccer
What is your teaching philosophy?
One-to-one tutoring.
What might you do in a typical first session with a student?
Identify the depth of knowledge that a student possesses.
How can you help a student become an independent learner?
By using different solution techniques, example problems, and by making sure that they have a clear understanding of concepts and are able to solve similar problems.
How would you help a student stay motivated?
By engaging the student.
If a student has difficulty learning a skill or concept, what would you do?
Explain starting with simpler problems, slowly increasing the difficulty.
What strategies have you found to be most successful when you start to work with a student?
Develop friendship, be open and request the student to be open and discuss anything they like with me.
How would you help a student get excited/engaged with a subject that they are struggling in?
I use magic math.
What techniques would you use to be sure that a student understands the material?
Give them problems to solve.
How do you build a student's confidence in a subject?
I make the subject fun rather than a task.