My teaching philosophy is that students become very good at a subject with lots of hard work and a teacher looking over their shoulder and guiding them with their experience and encouragement.

I would give the student my educational philosophy and also assess the student's strengths and weaknesses in the subject matter being tutored.

I am constantly reminding students that I will not do the work for them, that they must be able to think on their own, and I buttress this with a method of constantly quizzing and re-quizzing students on old and new material.

I try to always relate insights from the material about life. For instance, I might show a student how in Latin, thinking about another culture allows one to question one's own culture whereas otherwise one might think all cultures have worked the same way.

我经常要求学生尝试教我公司ncept and this is what I would do when a student begins struggling.

I remind students to read as much as possible. There is no magic pill for being able to read well outside of constantly doing it. I would also recommend that they study the ancient Greek and Latin languages, and also German. Such knowledge of the core roots of the English really increases reading comprehension in the way memorizing multiplication and arithmetic helps one with math. It's not necessary but helpful.

I have found that they must constantly question. I don't want them to simply accept what I am saying. They should live by Plato's dictum "Expose yourself to many ideas, never automatically believing any one." Questioning many things helps them to get to the why as opposed to simple surface knowledge that often comes with automatic acceptance.

I like to show students appropriate clips from movies that illustrate a concept I am trying to communicate. Many times they are inspired by thinking they share many of the weaknesses and strengths of those in the film clips I show them.

I am constantly quizzing the students and re-quizzing them. I teach them concepts, quiz them on the concepts, and then spot quiz on the past work, move on, quiz on everything, move on etc.

I remind them that all successful people have struggled with self-doubt and feelings of failure, that their teacher struggled with self-doubt and feelings of failure, but that working hard and the (usually) inevitable improvement in ability is the best way, as Plato says, for them to be convinced of their own abilities when they see objectively how far they've come.

在第一次会议中,我探头去看学生的emotional intelligence relative to a subject. Do they understand the things that may not be taught in every textbook but that are necessary for success in a field? There are usually only a few of these, and they can often be communicated (not completely understood) in one lesson, but they must be the basis of study in that field.

I can definitely make sure that I meet a student's basic needs in a subject, but often I will have to communicate to them that they must work harder than they are working now. I also try to gauge a student's learning language and match it to how we study a subject.

I might use film clips, but primarily I will use simple discussion and quizzing back and forth, as well some appropriate Google searches to talk about a story, etc.