Day One

My first day of tutoring was last Friday. Only one of my students showed up on that evening. And we could only meet for half an hour as he had to leave for a movie that was showing at school there after.

We spent about half of the time introducing ourselves. Then we began the review of his math homework. The homework was on finding areas of various hybrid figures made by meshing together either rectangles, triangles or parallelograms of different shapes and sizes. And I never thought the day would ever come when I would say this - but thank God for the GMAT math section. I had all the formula's at my fingertips.

My understanding is that generally, most tutors use this time to do the homework together with students. I however plan on using this time to review the area's where the students struggled with over all the homeworks that they had done that week. In that case I would revisit the concepts underlying those areas to try and reinforce their knowledge. I will keep this blog updated on the various strategies I plan on using and which ones I find to be successful and which were not.

This coming weekend is Thanksgiving so I'll continue the tutoring sessions the week after.

Opening ...

I have just recently began tutoring at the Jubilee Reach Center in Bellevue, WA. This is wonderful center opens its facilities and caters its programs to underserved communities. Yes, even in Bellevue, there exist pockets of underserved communities from all walks of life including minorities and immigrants as well.



Working at Microsoft full time and having just joined the Evening MBA program at the University of Washington does not leave me with much free time on my hands. However, my passion on tutoring math and sciences to enable students not only to overcome their weaknesses in these areas but also to like for them is what drives me to tutor 1hr a week at Jubilee. I also love to mentor on what the students on my experiences in the corporate world.



I just began tutoring last week and I will be tutoring two 5th graders. I have a decent background in tutoring, having tutored calculus, electrical engineering and computer science classes while I was an undergrad and then tutoring 8th graders in 2007 at the Midtown Center in Chicago.



The plan is to blog about my experiences to not only share my experiences with other tutors and students but also to learn on how I could improve as well.



I look forward to this journey!!