Orion Jerecca

At the heart of my teaching philosphy is the importance of understanding, for the understanding of a topic allows for a strong foundation to be built for subsequent knowledge, thus allowing the student to excel. To start with, I try to get a feel for the learning methods that work well for the student; that is, for the first 1 or 2 sessions, it's a matter of just trying to see what works best for the student e.g. Feynman technique. After that, the sessions progress in a regular matter; I explain the material to the student, and the student uses whatever technique we identified was best in response to the teaching. After this, we move onto the student answering questions; past paper questions are infamously the most effective way to succeed in tests. From there, it's just a matter of identifying gaps in the students knowledge, teaching the specific material that applies to those gaps, then doing more questions, and repeating this till the student has a complete understanding of the topic. Them, we move on to the next topic, then the next and so on.