What is your teaching philosophy?

My teaching philosophy is that each student has a unique way of learning, and it is important to work together to discover what that is. Then we can tailor the tutoring so that it will best help the student.

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

The important thing is to keep trying. I would explore different resources that may explain things in a different way until I found something that the student could connect with. Also, I think it's important to prevent the student from becoming too frustrated. If necessary, I would review a concept that the student understood in order to boost their confidence before returning to the more difficult subject.

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

I would find out what subjects the student was interested in, and then use sources that talked about that subject. If the student is interested or knowledgeable about the subject, it could help with comprehension, rather than having the student give up because they don't understand the source material at all. This way, we could focus more on techniques to improve reading comprehension. Then we could take the techniques learned with familiar material and apply them to more difficult material.