What is your teaching philosophy?

Teaching my students the fundamentals and principles needed to teach themselves, leading to long-lasting improvements and near term success.

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

Get to know the student and have them ask me lots of questions too, but ultimately determine how I best help them through weak areas.

How can you help a student become an independent learner?

Teach students principles as to how they can learn to teach themselves.

How would you help a student stay motivated?

Grades and improved attitude by successful learning.

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

Try multiple ways to break through with them and possibly reach out to fellow tutors for guidance and assistance.

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

Read different passages with them and ask associated questions.

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

Using their homework and previous tests in order to see where they made mistakes or were struggling in the past in order to get to the root of the problem (for math).