Forrest
Certified Tutor
Undergraduate Degree: Morningside College - Bachelors, Biological Sciences
Graduate Degree: Concordia University-Portland - Masters, MBA
ACT Composite: 32
GRE Quantitative: 160
GRE Verbal: 156
What is your teaching philosophy?
Aid the student in finding the answer in an authentic and repeatable manner.
What might you do in a typical first session with a student?
Talk about their hobbies, personality, class schedule, strengths, weaknesses, limitations, and needs.
How can you help a student become an independent learner?
Giving them the tools to succeed rather than giving them the answers.
How would you help a student stay motivated?
Talk about the positives of hard work, talk about the future, but talk about the immediate gains as well.
If a student has difficulty learning a skill or concept, what would you do?
Break it down into manageable pieces and build up to the concept. Visualization of concepts helps, or study tricks help if the student learns better in that manner.
How do you help students who are struggling with reading comprehension?
Have students look at the questions or goals before doing the reading so they know what they are looking for, or have the students stop and take notes on something they feel is important.
What strategies have you found to be most successful when you start to work with a student?
Utilize techniques that the students respond to. Personalize the sessions so that the student gets maximal advantage out of their learning.
How would you help a student get excited/engaged with a subject that they are struggling in?
Talk about how that subject effects their lives in a way that they may not have thought about before. Bring up new information to the student that they might not have thought about.
What techniques would you use to be sure that a student understands the material?
Repeatability, increasing difficulty.
How do you build a student's confidence in a subject?
Start at a level that is achievable for the student and then work up from there.
How do you evaluate a student's needs?
Give some sort of baseline test after asking basic questions about personality and schedules/course load.
How do you adapt your tutoring to the student's needs?
Know the students on a personal level to see what type of learning style they respond to.
What types of materials do you typically use during a tutoring session?
It depends on the subject. Anything from their textbook to their personal library to a computer. Definitely always notepaper, pencils, calculators, calendars, etc.