Christopher
Certified Tutor
Undergraduate Degree: University of California-Berkeley - Bachelors, Double Major: Spanish and Political Science
Graduate Degree: Harvard Law School - Masters, Law, JD [note, not a Masters but the field immediately below required a selection]
Motorcycling, writing, drums, filmmaking, and travel.
College English
Conversational Spanish
High School English
Spanish 1
What is your teaching philosophy?
Patience and hard work are always rewarded.
What might you do in a typical first session with a student?
Get to know them, their goals, strengths, and their desired areas of improvement.
How can you help a student become an independent learner?
With support and development of study skills such as an active reading style that includes a dialogue with the text.
How would you help a student stay motivated?
By understanding their goals and helping students reach them.
If a student has difficulty learning a skill or concept, what would you do?
Start with the fundamentals and build from there.
How do you help students who are struggling with reading comprehension?
Go paragraph by paragraph working on those skills.
What strategies have you found to be most successful when you start to work with a student?
Knowing their strengths and desired areas of improvement. Then, working on improving those desired areas.
How would you help a student get excited/engaged with a subject that they are struggling in?
By understanding their interest and encouraging them to take on the challenge.
What techniques would you use to be sure that a student understands the material?
Testing and a Socratic questioning approach.
How do you build a student's confidence in a subject?
By showing them how much they have improved.
How do you evaluate a student's needs?
By testing and getting to know them.
How do you adapt your tutoring to the student's needs?
By determining which techniques they respond to and using those techniques where possible.