What is your teaching philosophy?

"Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime." -Maimonides

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

The first session is always the most important because that is when the student and tutor get to establish an understanding of each other’s way of learning and teaching. I will start off with viewing the student's learning materials and create a comfortable lesson plan/schedule that would be most appropriate and beneficial to the student's learning. Then I will have the student demonstrate to me what he/she already knows and what he/she wants to work on most.

How can you help a student become an independent learner?

To be an independent learner, one must be able to first identify one's strength and weakness. I will help the student use his/her strength to an advantage and strengthen his/her weakness or find an alternate study method that will avoid those weaknesses. The key to being an independent learner is having great studying skills and methods.