What strategies have you found to be most successful when you start to work with a student?

Putting their needs before my own. Making the learning environment work for them.

How would you help a student get excited/engaged with a subject that they are struggling in?

Make it fun to learn about the subject. Encourage them when even small steps are made.

What techniques would you use to be sure that a student understands the material?

Repeated practice, as well as making the information more challenging.

How do you build a student's confidence in a subject?

Constant learning, repeated practice, and encouraging praise.

How do you evaluate a student's needs?

Asking them, evaluating their work, watching them work, and noticing the areas they struggle in.

How do you adapt your tutoring to the student's needs?

If we find that something doesn't work, we change our strategy and try something else.

What types of materials do you typically use during a tutoring session?

Pencil, paper, calculator, and a learning tool app on the iPad.

What is your teaching philosophy?

Imparting my love for mathematics to each of the students I interact with.

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

Get to know them, let them get to know me, figure out their learning styles, and assess their goals and visions of what they would like to get out of being tutored.

How can you help a student become an independent learner?

Repeated practice, assessments, meaningful praise.

How would you help a student stay motivated?

Provide incentives, and make the learning process fun.

If a student has difficulty learning a skill or concept, what would you do?

It depends on the skill or concept. There are several different ways to learn/teach the same concept. It will also depend on the learning style of the student.

How do you help students who are struggling with reading comprehension?

My sister was a slow reader when she first started out. I helped her calmly and patiently with things she did not understand, and she is now able to recognize patterns and figure things out for herself.