How I teach and how lessons work
My Approcah
It’s important to me first and foremost for a tutee to be comfortable and feel understood. I listen to my tutees needs and their problems to gain an understanding of what I need to address in my lessons. I believe there are no stupid questions, but I don’t give answers for free, instead I believe that teaching understanding means the questions reduce, or get more complex, and both are brilliant. I have often used metaphors and my own examples to help tutees learn. In some cases, there simplpy isn’t interest in a topic necessary under a syllabus. In such a case, knowing a tutee’s interests and how their mind works allows me to build with them frameworks they can see the topic through. If this doesn’t make it interesting, it at least gives them methodologies for tackling it that work for them. The ultimate goal is to help the tutee find a passion for the topic and gain an understanding that makes future learning not just easier, but fun too!
How lessons will work
Firstly, I’d like to talk to the tutee to understand them a little better, what do they like/dislike, how do they find the topics they are studying, what interests them. Lessons will be tuned based on how they are feeling with their studies. If they are struggling with a new topic, lets dive in and see what we can do. If something is easy, whats next on the syllabus to get ahead? This way the tutee feels heard and never feels lost or bored, which are key to developing comfort and understanding in topics.