"What is my tutoring approach?

•The focus is on teaching students to understand and think in an atmosphere of warmth, patience, and friendliness to free students from fears, calm anxieties, and reduce insecurities.

•To effectively teach and motivate students depends on understanding them. A good way to understand them is to listen to them and to observe them. Their goals, their strengths, their constraints, and their preferences are important to learn.

•The main tutoring products are insight and improvement, not necessarily a whole lot in one thing but probably a little bit in many things, probably not 100% in one thing but rather 10% in ten things or maybe even 1% in 100 things.

•We will use habitual improvement to “chase perfection” and never reach it but, in the process, we will “catch excellence.”

•Interest, excitement, importance, and relevance are developed and stimulated through pictures and diagrams, examples and samples, and uses and applications from or with respect to nature, science, business, health, finance, and engineering to show the relatedness of things.

•A main goal is to improve decision productivity and quality, the speed and accuracy of solving problems. This is done through insight and better methods of problem solving and through using both sides of our brains and several styles of thinking, not just logical sequential thinking, and through understanding the problem and checking the answer in more than one way.

•There is some use of theorems and proofs, questions and definitions, drill and repetition, and logic and reasoning. However, I mainly use a problem solving laboratory approach with many word problems and numerical problems for learning by doing. The what, why, how, and so what are reviewed and explained.

•Students are taught to do the work and to efficiently and effectively:

-separate important information from irrelevant information

-frame, link, structure, and focus the problem for solution

-apply proper analytical methods to solve the problem and check the results

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