Cadence

I have been tutoring Chinese and Math at various levels since I was 11, and even have experience in teaching young children to swim. Most of the students I have taught were in middle and primary school, but I have taught a few high schoolers and kindergarteners. Last summer, I was a teacher's assistant at a Chinese summer school in Boston and learned valuable lessons about mentoring young kids. In school, I am taking many advanced classes. I have taken AP Chinese, European History, US History, Chemistry, and English Language (all 5s). I took honors Precalculus last year and plan to take AP Calculus BC this year.

I believe that students learn best when they interact with their material, whether through flashcards, games, or mind maps. In my Chinese classes, I like to break down my student's material into bite-sized chunks for them to process, and we play games with the new vocabulary to familiarize them with the words. Whenever I feel that they are getting distracted or bored, I switch approaches and try a new way to help them out, whether it be watching a video or singing a song. For students who are not native speakers, I speak to them in Chinese and then repeat the same thing in English to expose them to more vocabulary. In my Math classes, I structure my lessons based on my students' questions with homework and work from there. I spend half the time working through practice problems with them, backtracking whenever they feel lost. Then, I summarize the main takeaways from our lesson and come up with a few problems for them to practice. I try to let my students try the questions a few times before I step in and give them hints, giving them time to recall their knowledge and practice their skills.