Cassidy Mesa

I am well known by my peers for helping them understand difficult topics, I adapt to what they don't understand and how they learn best to get an idea of how to progress. The student is the most important part in education, I'd initially start lessons by gaining an overview of what exactly needs to be focussed on, where the student has weaknesses so we can work on them first. In the case of examinations it's equally important to understand how the examiners want the questions answered as it is to understand the maths - I'd share my personal tips relating to this for completing specific types of questions to increase my pupil's efficiency. We'd then start working our way through the curriculum, ensuring solid basics and challenging higher understanding of how and why the maths works, this will be our foundation for more complex problems. Using worked examples and segmenting them into easier stages is one of the most important methods, this combined with frequent questions that test the student's knowledge helps foster a strong motivational force. As they answer these broken down problems part by part they get a great sense of satisfaction, where they make a mistake or their understanding isn't yet developed, I make sure to enforce the idea that failure is nothing other than a chance to learn and improve. As for our lesson dynamics, being superior to your students only creates a sense of distaste, they need to feel open to communicate with me ; I ensure a constant open dialogue, my lessons feel will feel more like a insightful, educational conversation then being lectured. I guarantee you will see my student's understanding of math advance more and more, working on any dislike towards the subject.