My primary goal as an educator is to get my students to think. This means having students engage in their learning in a hands on manner, and engaging all of their learning styles and needs.

In a typical first session with a student, I enjoy getting to know what they feel they are successful in, and what they feel are their strengths. I like to use their needs and strengths to guide our sessions.

In order to help a student become an independent learner, I first need to encourage students to use their strengths to help them complete assignments. Showing rather than telling is a cornerstone pedagogical strategy that you might see in my classroom.

I help students stay motivated by encouraging them and showing them their previous successes. Learning is a lifelong process, and showing them what they have already accomplished will help foster a love of learning in the future.

If a student has difficulty learning a concept, I like to work through this difficulty together. We will take a variety of approaches, and through our one-on-one sessions, I hope to encourage students to tell me their needs and engage them in this manner.

This is a common difficulty among students. Together, we will annotate the text using both verbal and non verbal cues, defining vocabulary terms, and making content and real world connections.

There are many strategies I have found to be most successful when working with a student. First, getting to know the students strengths and weaknesses is a primary concern of mine. Second, I enjoy a collaborative environments where the student and I work together. Whether this is editing an essay or reading text, collaborating together is a cornerstone of my sessions.

I enjoy connecting the content we are studying to their everyday life to engage students in my subject matter. This can be done though making personal connections or studying current events to make this content applicable.

I use a variety of assessments, discussions, analyses, and higher order questioning to ensure that my students are retaining the information we have covered in a lesson.

Through encouragement and independent learning, I like to foster a sense of confidence in each of my students. Setting achievable goals for my students and having them reach their goals is the best way to have my them feel confident in their abilities.

They are the best source of their own needs. I like to start each session with what they feel they need help on, and go from there. I also like to assess students before we start to see where they are struggling to better guide my session.

Tutoring is dictated by the student, unlike school, which is dictated by a curriculum. They tell me what they feel they need to work on, and we go from this point. I adapt to fit their learning styles and needs.

I use a variety of tools, including document editors, graphic organizers, assessments, and discussion platforms during the course of my interactive tutoring session.