What is your teaching philosophy?

I can learn anything as long as I put my mind to it. Brilliance requires work, and work requires determination. Let's be determined and change the world.

What might you do in a typical first session with a student?

Get to know the student and his or her goal to better teach.

How can you help a student become an independent learner?

By helping the student understand the importance of him acquiring knowledge in life.

How would you help a student stay motivated?

By helping him keep in mind the focus, which is the end goal.

If a student has difficulty learning a skill or concept, what would you do?

Try another way and have them like what they are doing.

How do you help students who are struggling with reading comprehension?

By incorporating what they like doing.

What strategies have you found to be most successful when you start to work with a student?

Creating a scene when you have the student engage in it and pretend it is reality.

How would you help a student get excited/engaged with a subject that they are struggling in?

Have them learn it by planting it in their world.

What techniques would you use to be sure that a student understands the material?

Have them brief me at the end of the session on what we learned.

How do you build a student's confidence in a subject?

By explaining to them that it does not matter how low you start, but it matters how much effort you are willing to put into it to make it happen.

How do you evaluate a student's needs?

By evaluating their goal in taking the lessons.

How do you adapt your tutoring to the student's needs?

By knowing their concerns and revolving it around their needs.

What types of materials do you typically use during a tutoring session?

A book, a board, a table, pen, pencil, chair, etc.