What is your teaching philosophy?

Every child can learn with the proper motivation and the right strategy.

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

Getting to know the student's likes, interest and personal learning style.

How can you help a student become an independent learner?

Teaching them the right strategies to learn the content that suits their learning style.

How would you help a student stay motivated?

Build their confidence in their ability to learn the subject matter.

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

You always try to come to the student with several different approaches to learning the material.

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

Determine what literacy skills they are lacking and start from there.

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

All students are different, but many of them tend to retain information better when you focus on inquiry or relate the subject matter to something they know.

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

Build their interest, stress the importance, and help them gain confidence so they have a stronger sense of self efficacy

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

Focus on feedback and using multiple informal assessments.