Experience Summary
• Fluent in French.
• Read and write fluently in the following languages: Spanish, Italian.
My experiences with teaching and tutoring, both formally and informally, have shown me that I greatly enjoy and benefit from teaching, and I frequently hear directly and indirectly how much the students enjoy and benefit from my teaching. In short, I’ve tutored students in French since early high school;
Teaching Style
Tutoring is an amazing experience, because the more internally frustrating it is, struggling to find the right way to connect with the other student with the presentation of the material that they understand best, the more rewarding it is in the end. The subtleties of how simple word choices, gestures, and drawings interact with the student's individual talents are endlessly intricate, going far beyond simply "visual learners" and "hands-on learners."
Even more important than understanding concepts is learning how to learn. It takes a long time to learn how to efficiently pick apart the information given in a problem, and even longer to learn how not to become frustrated. Emotional rollercoasters in problem-solving are nearly inevitable, but it is important for anyone, thirteen or thirty, to remember that the best approach is a new and fresh approach. Another important emotional tool is confidence.