Pedro N.

My teaching philosophy is to make things easier and simpler to debunk this myth that math is hard and my approach has definitely made students love the subject.

I make sure to break the ice and make students feel at ease to make any questions about their difficulties in the learning process.

To make students independent learners it's important to provide them with confidence that can only be reached throughout training or learning the correct mindmaps.

I would share past experiences for example success stories and some hard situations where I had to draw a strategic plan, where I have made students of every caliber reach their desired grades and inspire them. I make sure to develop a plan with them, in order to bring them to the goal in a strategic and smart way.

To make students comfortable with sharing their questions even the most basic ones, it's perfectly fine not to be able to understand anything because that's how we started. I have resources for my students for almost every ability and these resources never disappointed. I always explain the concept with a real analogy or animation.

This has a great impact on Math when we are trying to solve a problem. For that, it is necessary to note aside from the points that the problem gives us, and the desired objective, then from there draw a map on how to solve it, and then only start solving it! That is my strategy which almost feels like a game for them.

To have a plan and to model it to the student's needs and to keep it as real as possible and to be looking at the progress, but to let the student be responsible for this plan in order for him to gain personal knowledge about his/her difficulties.

Encourage to find bridges with real-world applications.

At the end of each lesson, there is a questionnaire to access the level of understanding.

Confidence is built by them when gaining momentum in confidence to solve more and more exercises, especially in Math where the more you train, the more you are ready for the different problems.

Depending on the level, I was first asked to solve an individual test that would allow me to know where the basic foundations are lacking, from there we draw a homework on the ramp plan and in parallel the school homework doubts. These 2 plans together lead to the one master plan for each student to gain confidence and power to overcome his nightmares over the subject.

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