My teaching philosophy is based on meeting the needs of each student. Whether it be through hands on learning or more visual learning, my goal is to find ways to convey the lesson material in different ways that best accommodate each student achieve their goal.

My typical first session will be getting to know the student, figuring out the student's learning style, and going over some preliminary questions the student may have for me. After getting through that, I'd try to get to some more material based questions.

Through leading questions and encouraging students to try problems on their own is how I help students become independent learners.

I'd help a student stay motivated by keeping the end goal in mind and by also creating short-term goals to keep focused on.

I'd ask where they are having trouble or figure out what is causing the difficulty. Next I'd try to find a different approach that will better help the student understand.

By breaking down the question and picking out key words and concepts throughout the piece they are reading.

I've found that keeping the student engaged as well as asking leading questions helps students learn better.

By setting short-term goals and showing them that after a bit of work they will soon understand it.

Practice questions, review of major concepts, and having them teach me.

I build a student's confidence through encouragement of small triumphs and continual reinforcement.

I evaluate a student's needs by first asking them what they think they are having issues with, then by observing how they perform on particular problems.

I adapt by changing my approaches on learning. Some people need to see how to do something before working through a problem, whereas others would rather work through the problem in order to understand better.

I can use anywhere from textbooks, to online sources, to my own experiences to help teach.