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and Talented Teaching This is not a business or a company. I am not some part-time
“tutor” who is doing a side gig to earn extra cash. I am a professional credentialed teacher & tutor who
teaches math, SAT, ACT FULL-TIME 7 days a week. Over the past 9 years I have
personally taught and tutored more than 2000 students in middle and high
schools, offices, conference rooms, and over online meeting calls. As a teacher I have planned lessons, created worksheets and handouts,
homework problem sets, and developed quizzes and exams. I have written and
produced hundreds of pages of teaching & instructional materials. When it comes to the SAT & ACT, I have personally taken
more than 60 SAT exams and 40 ACT exams, developed hundreds of pages of SAT
& ACT course review content, and analyzed over 7000 SAT & ACT exam
questions. I have BA in Cognitive Psychology & Education from There is a Right Way
to Teach & Tutor The preparation and planning for your lessons actually started
years before your first lesson: I have spent weeks
and months going through and analyzing problems and questions, months putting
together study materials and handouts, worksheets and reinforcement practice
problems. Every problem and explanation has been taught and adjusted
literally hundreds of times. Your lessons are just the tip of the iceberg. Proper teaching & tutoring goes far beyond just answering
questions Assess Knowledge - The first thing that needs to
happen is I assess and determine what you know and don't know. I assess and
verify your understanding by asking your knowledge of concepts, and test you
by giving you problems to solve. You would be surprised how many kids think
“Yeah I know it" but actually don't. Fill In Knowledge Gaps - I don’t waste time reviewing what
you know, but I also find any gaps or deficiencies in knowledge that need to
be learned. I’ll go back only as far as I need to. I provide far better
teaching and explanations than other teachers / tutors so that you will
UNDERSTAND and REVIEW what you don’t know. - Every lesson and explanation is
adjusted in REAL-TIME just for you: the speed & pacing, the complexity of
explanation, and how far back we need to go to fill in those knowledge gaps.
That also means how advanced we go is also based on your ability. - If you need more practice and
reinforcement, I will give you practice problems and homework. Diagnosing the Problem - I analyze and diagnose what is
going wrong with your thinking and reasoning to figure out what is going on. This
is far more complex than most parents and students realize. Parents and
students love to blame “the teacher doesn’t teach” as the primary cause, but
actually it isn’t. There are many different levels and reasons why students
are having issues, from confusing different concepts or making mistakes they
don’t realize, to not paying attention and jumping to conclusions, or just
not knowing the material. - I know if you aren't getting it
but you think you do. The most common mistake of students is that they
insistently think they are right, but can’t seem to get the correct answer.
Also many students get the right answer by guessing or chance. Solving Problems & Answering Questions - Unlike other tutors who are
essentially talking textbooks or talking web-pages that just answer
questions, what I provide is real teaching and learning. You will not learn
just by listening and looking at answers. You will learn by thinking about
what you are supposed to do and then doing it. I will push you to think so that you
understand not only WHAT to do but also WHY you are doing it. - You get CLEAR, SIMPLE, and CORRECT
solutions and explanations to problems. You won't get any confusing
explanations or answers that don't make sense. You will learn the - What you learn goes beyond just math or SAT or ACT: real
critical thinking, problem solving, analytical skills, and organizational and
proper study skills necessary to succeed in college and in life. These are
lessons that you do not learn in school or from textbooks. There are Many Wrong
Ways Talking textbooks Teaching isn’t just answering questions. Most students don’t
know what they don’t know. An answer or explanation to a problem will be
incomprehensible without the prior knowledge that it’s based on. Incompetent /
inexperienced / bad teaching & explanations Poor teaching results in confusing or complex incomprehensible
explanations. Often you get a “talking textbook” who simply reads off a
solution / answer that you could have just read on your own, or watched on
YouTube. Tutors who can’t
figure out what you are doing wrong Without knowing what a student is doing wrong there is no way
to fix the problem Group Tutoring ( 2
to 5 students ) a logistical
disorganized mess designed to rake in profits You thought you were getting private tutoring, but it’s actually
a small group of students. It's impossible to properly teach anything when you have 2 - 5
kids all working on different problems and at different ability levels. This
is even WORSE than a class because at least in a class everyone is doing with
same stuff and going through the same questions Wasting valuable
time that you paid for Other tutors waste valuable lesson time by starting lessons
late and ending early, going over material you already know, talking very
slowly and losing the student’s attention. Random tutors Often with tutoring companies you get random tutors: Tutor
Jenny one day, Tutor Sam the next day. They don’t know you that well, and
don’t know what you have already learned and covered. Tutors who suddenly
quit on you With other places, when you signed up you got Tutor Jenny. But
Jenny quit after a few weeks, and now you end up with Tutor Fred. With me, you get a seamless continuity from lesson to lesson.
I know what your problem areas are, I know what we did last time, and I know
what we will be doing this time. \ Congratulations to my students!
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