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

Get to know the student- learning about who I am teaching helps in how best to teach them.

How can you help a student become an independent learner?

After walking a student through several problems or questions together, a good teacher takes small steps, 'backing off', allowing the student to rely on their learned experience to figure out the next problem.

How would you help a student stay motivated?

Keep the content the same, but change the method in how it is taught. For example, have the student create the questions, use everyday examples or make the assignment personal by using familiar, everyday scenarios.

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

Change my tactics. Not every person learns the same. Some students need to act it out, change the language of the questions, or use associations to change their perspective. The methods of learning are endless; everyone has their own path to knowledge.

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

Highlighting, underlining, pulling out important words and summarizing frequently. These are just a few ways to help maintain the material and stay engaged no matter how BORING the material is!

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

Not so much 'strategies', but blueprinting. Any teacher should begin with figuring out the student first, and then the material second.

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

Rewards! Anyone will want to achieve something less desired when and if the reward, or the 'light at the end of the tunnel', is bright enough.

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

Switch roles. The student becomes the teacher.

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

Set small goals of material comprehension and understanding. Too much at once can be easily overwhelming and defeating. Every mountain starts with a hill.

How do you evaluate a student's needs?

By working with a student and seeing where they lack the confidence in the realm of a subject.

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

Every student learns differently. I teach how they learn.

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

Materials can be anything from a white bored to props or books to funny hats.

What is your teaching philosophy?

You can always figure it out; as long you get rid of your self-doubt.