What is your teaching philosophy?

To help students create and think for themselves, such that the knowledge sticks with them. To help them see the meaning and practicality of learning and the joy and confidence it can bring.

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

Get to know them, what they are interested in, etc. Ask them about how they feel about the various subjects and courses. Identify areas of difficulty and success.

How can you help a student become an independent learner?

By teaching them particular learning tools and methods and helping them practice and refine such tools.

How would you help a student stay motivated?

By helping them to see the importance and meaning of the things they are learning.

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

Teach them strategies for overcoming confusion. Catering explanations to the student's particular propensities and style of learning.

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

Identify tactics, such as key words, overall structure, tonality.

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

Asking them questions, drawing diagrams, and making an outline of general lesson plan.

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

Show them relevance to life; boost their confidence.

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

Quizzes; varying kinds of questions.

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

Show them the ways in which they are constantly improving.

How do you evaluate a student's needs?

Quizzes

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

Learn from experience which sorts of questions and techniques work and how they relate to the student's particular confusions/learning style.

What types of materials do you typically use during a tutoring session?

Handouts, outlines, diagrams, lesson plans.