你的教学理念是什么?

我坚信，在学术环境中，决定成功与否的最大因素是自信，而不是野心或天资。我说的“自信”，不仅指对自己掌握的时事知识的自信，更重要的是对自己独立学习和思考的能力的自信。作为一个教练,我致力于帮助学生成功,因为我知道作为一个学生,从我自己的经验,在每一个层次的教育,从小学到研究生院,一个充满激情的老师的支持和鼓励可以把羞怯或冷漠的成绩落后的学生变成一个教室明星。

你在与学生的典型第一届会话中可能做什么？

第一次会议是为了了解学生并建立未来会议的方向。I will ask a lot of questions about what the student hopes to gain from tutoring, and how they hope it will help them achieve both their specific objectives (e.g., passing a class, acing the SAT math section) and long-term goals (college applications, future career). Then I will have the student work through some diagnostic materials from the tutoring website in order to get a clearer picture of where they currently stand: how they think, how they approach new problems, and which areas (if any) are more or less difficult for them.