What is your teaching philosophy?

To make learning easy.

How would you help a student stay motivated?

Share my experience with learning.

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

Guide them to use the concept that they have learned and known. Apply those to the new areas.

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

Work on the questions together.

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

Let the student try first before jumping into explaining the answer.

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

Break down step-by-step ways to let them know what to do.

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

To work with them together.

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

To introduce myself. To know the student's grade levels and her/his likes and dislikes.