My teaching philosophy is that I feel teachers need to be able to provide their students with comfort and support and make sure they feel safe when they are in your classroom. I believe the most effective way for students to learn is for them to be guided to practice the skills taught in class on their own. I also feel that it is important to use hands-on teaching and have students work in groups. I feel that students are, for the most part, visual learners and need to be shown what to do and not told what to do.

In a first lesson with a student, I would want to get to know them and learn how they learn best. I would try and lean towards how the student would learn best. I would try and make sure the student feels comfortable with me. The more they feel comfortable, the more they will open up and give 100%.

I can help a student become an independent learner by showing him the techniques he or she will need to become one. I would show them how to take notes and flashcards to help test themselves.

我将试着休息down the problem to simplest terms. I would try and go to previous material to see if that was the cause of any of the difficulties. I would also try and see what exactly they were having difficulty with and build from there.

I would have them make flashcards of the vocabulary words they do not understand. I would help break down the reading with them until they understood what they were reading.

I try and make sure I tutor the student to how they learn best, whether it's visually with examples or just reciting work.

I usually use the student's work, extra work I bring, work that the student is working on in school, a calculator, worksheets, etc..