Circuits, Physics, and Math Tutor

Jonah M.

I specialize in tutoring physics, math, and my favorite subject: electronic circuits. I am a recent grad from the electrical engineering program at UC Davis and have been tutoring physics, circuits, and math at the college level for a year and a half. Before tutoring college students, I tutored high school students in algebra, trigonometry, precalculus, and calculus all throughout my 4 years of high school.

My tutoring pedagogy boils down to 4 elements: Practice problems, teaching by asking questions, encouragement, and personability.

Practice problems are an essential part of learning! It's impossibly to truly understand a concept without applying it to real problems. I like to spend as much time as possible doing practice problems with my students. Usually practice problems are provided by the student in the form of homework, classwork, or practice tests.

"Teaching by asking questions" is an essential method to improve students retention of the material and teach students how to approach problems without my help. I often ask a string of specific questions to gauge the student's understanding of material as well as to guide them in solving problems with as little help from me as possible.

Encouragement is required to preserve a growth mindset and ensure that all learning is fun!

Lastly, being personable for students allow both me and the student to fall into a comfortable dynamic so that we're always on the same page. This ensures that I am explaining content just the right amount (not too much, not too little) so that time can be spent most efficiently on practice problems.

I have found that this pedagogy has enabled me to be an affective tutor. Please reach out if you have any questions!