What is your teaching philosophy?

Everyone has something that they are good at doing, something they love. That can be tapped to increase academic success.

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

Get to know what they want from tutoring and what they feel about learning.

How can you help a student become an independent learner?

By helping them make goals and giving them the tools to reach them.

How would you help a student stay motivated?

By helping them set goals they can feel successful about reaching.

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

Find out if there is any underlying cause to the difficulty and help then find ways to use what they already know for academic success.

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

Pre-teaching vocabulary and important concepts and checking in throughout the reading.

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

Patience and organization.

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

Relate it to something they are interested in already.

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

Formative and summative assessments.

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

Give them small successes along the way that lead to large ones.