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About
RaeAnn: |
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Fortune 100 companies, an audit and tax accountant at a Big 4 firm, a chief financial officer for a hospital, a controller in a steel company, a land developer, and a part-time teacher. My teaching experience includes: teaching University classes in Accounting and Business while getting my (MBA,Economics)graduate degree, night school classes in English and Math, Seminars on Project Managing and Project Implementation, Individual Tax classes, and K-1 through K-12 Substitute Teacher for Billings Public School District.
My expertise lies in the ability of knowing how to ask the right questions to determine students learning style, establish comprehension benchmarks, style approach, determine deliverables, method sampling, scope of tutoring sessions. It is very important for the student to effectively communicate when, where and why they are stuck and usually this is difficult for them to do. Thereby, it takes the teacher to draw this information from them. The teacher needs to know how to ask the right questions.
I approach the "roadblock" by paralleling material with scenarios by which the student understands. Most problems arise because the student can not get past the roadblocks, their comprehension levels lower, and their listening shuts down. Thus the difficulty increases in the subject matter because they are stuck at point A, while the teacher and classroom have continued on to point B. Student becomes further frustrated believing they will not caught up.
I am successful in demonstrating to students the initial difficulty is not solely due to the subject material, but an important contributing factor to the difficulty they are experiencing is due to the difficult way the material was presented. Once they have insight to this, they are able to improve their approach in grasping the information that is poorly delivered and then breaking it down themselves. The quote "a student is only as good as the teacher" has a strong hold of truth behind it.
There are different reasons for needing a tutor, but I believe when a student has gone to class, completed assignments, etc. and is having problems it is due to the teacher. Students develop learning habits strictly on their own, they are thrown into school without ever being taught how to learn. They are taught to learn by way the presentation is made. So when the time comes that they can't grasp something they hit a roadblock. Usually there is not time in class for the teacher to assist and if they do, it is presented just as they did first time. It is a mistake for teachers to assume if they slow down and go over a few steps again you will get it. I can say this because I have 4 teachers in my family and they all do this. This is suffice if the student just didn't hear something or see it on the board because they were too busy taking notes, etc. So repeating what they did usually will work, but this is totally different than one not grasping the material at all.
I have a wonderful story to confirm this, however it would be a bit long and I think I probably have gone on to long as it is. I am happy to share this with anyone interested so send me an email and I will send you a story.
A tutor is to SUCCESSFULLY assist the student in understanding the material so they can go forward and improve. The teacher is not going to change their method of teaching the subject so the student will need skills in order to adjust and succeed. Tutoring helps the student understand methods and this provides them the ability to better communicate to the teacher what they need specifically. When this happens, the student will be completely amazed how they can gain the help from the teacher and not the tutor. It truly opens doors to learning and higher scholastic achievement. I know because I was the student who had to take Algebra 101 for two semesters and then the light came on! I lived in the Math Lab every available hour it was open for six to seven months (free help). I was determined to learn and not give up, the teachers dreaded me, talked about me, pretty much could not stand the sight of me and then finally the one who avoided helping me the most listened one day and understood what I needed. She spent some time with me - minimum amount when I finally grasped the material. Away I went - I received an A in every Math class afterwards. Scored 100's on most all of my Math 101, Math 102, Math 103, and Math 106 exams. Then the fear set in so heavy that I would fail statistics, financial math, economic math, and quantitative methods. Well, I did not always score 100's, however I came close. I went onto Graduate school a few years later and entered an accelerated MBA program where anything less than a 90% you had to leave. I majored in Economics and the Math courses were unbelievable. I received an A in every Math course. Also I scored four or five 100's on exams which had never been done before in the history of my professors. I actually scored 110% on two exams because I decided to try the extra credit problem, however if you did not have it 100% you would lose 10 pts so it was risky to try.
You see I told the story anyway. I did not share this to toot my horn, because believe me I was the untouchable student doomed to never understand Math. I did well in my other courses, but I could not get Math. I stayed in Math 101 for two quarter!! I ended up taking more Math courses than any other course in both of my degrees and received "A" in every one of them. The Math Lab would hang my tests up for everyone to see because there was not a professor around that would believe it!!
I would feel very blessed if I could do this for anyone needing help.
I want to emphasize I told this ONLY to confirm my area of expertise is the ability to teach the untouchable. My accounting students reviewed me as such a teacher because many of them had failed Accounting 1 or Accounting 11, but when I taught they all passed and no one received lower than a C. I did not grade on the curve. Most of the students were in the Business program so they HAD to pass both courses to continue on.
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