Evan
Certified Tutor
I'm an academic by profession and a writer by habit. I have over three years of teaching experience at private tutoring companies, UC Berkeley, UC Berkeley's Summer Bridge Program, and as a freelance political science/calculus tutor (there's more overlap than you think). In 2014, my paper "Set Theory and Fuzzy Sets: Their Relationship to Natural Language" was published in the Newsletter of the American Political Science Association Organized Section for Qualitative and Multi-Method Research. I'm fond of good food and bad puns. In my free time, I wish I had more free time.
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Undergraduate Degree:University of California-Berkeley- Bachelor in Arts, Political Science and Government
Running, writing, reading, movies, good food, bad puns
- 10th Grade Math
- 11th Grade Math
- 12th Grade Math
- 6th Grade Math
- 7th Grade Math
- Algebra
- Algebra 2
- Arithmetic
- Calculus
- College Algebra
- College Level American History
- College World History
- Elementary Algebra
- Elementary School Math
- European History
- High School Level American History
- High School World History
- History
- Homeschool
- Middle School Math
- Political Science
- Pre-Algebra
- Summer
- World Civilization
- World History
What is your teaching philosophy?
My goal is to create an environment in which I learn as much from my students as my students learn from me.
What might you do in a typical first session with a student?
Assess a student's level of knowledge and create a study plan.
How can you help a student become an independent learner?
Build study skills that can be used in any learning context -- from classrooms to Netflix documentaries.
How would you help a student stay motivated?
Cautious encouragement.
If a student has difficulty learning a skill or concept, what would you do?
Break it down into steps and encourage practice.
How do you help students who are struggling with reading comprehension?
I assign reading material from a variety of disciplines and work with them through increasing levels of difficulty. When we arrive at a place where the student feels comfortable, we push past it.
What strategies have you found to be most successful when you start to work with a student?
有关学生alre材料概念ady knows, breaking everything into steps, and assigning pneumonic devices. If all else fails, it helps to laugh at the material every once in a while.
How would you help a student get excited/engaged with a subject that they are struggling in?
Every subject -- even the most mundane -- is exciting when it's made relevant. I keep students engaged by keeping the material current and salient.