Jackie

I am a certified mathematics teacher with 15 years of classroom teaching experience, and 4 years of online teaching/tutoring experience. I specialize in mathematics, but I am also fluent in Spanish, and am skilled in the sciences, so I offer tutoring help in each of those areas.

Tutoring Style

I like tutoring in particular because it gives me more focused time with a single student. This allows me to learn about the student as I teach them; I can learn what their particular needs are, and how best to cater my style to them. Some students need to hear the same thing and repeat it 10 times in the exact same way before they understand it; meanwhile, some students need to be shown the topic in a highly visual way, rather than just being told; others need it to be connected to a previously learned topic so they can scaffold new knowledge on top of old. There are so many different ways that I like to support and help my students, and it all depends on what works best for them.

Success Story

I had a particular student who had difficulties learning in a traditional classroom. He frequently was in trouble with his teachers, and when he came to me he was weeks behind in his assignments, and he was failing Algebra. What seemed at first to be an inability to understand basic concepts and an unwillingness to learn was actually an inability to focus for long periods. I taught him a few coping mechanisms (including the use of a fidget toy), and within a few weeks, he was making significant improvements; not only was he catching up and completing more assignments, but by the end of the year, he had a 98 in his Algebra I class!