"Hello,

And welcome to my page! My name is Iulia (pronounced Yulia) and I offer tutoring in various subjects here on Wyzant.

I have tutored since 2014, I have learned and applied new teaching methods along the way that help me to better serve my students.

In this section I would like to talk about the key patters I have seen that help students understand a topic more deeply, thoroughly and quickly, but you can find more about what I specifically do to teach different subjects by hovering over each subject that is in blue in the subjects section of my profile (please see below).

The first key that helps learning be more memorable is to compare new information to what students already know. This can be either in the topic that the student is studying or by analogy with another topic that the student is familiar with. This helps students see strings of patterns between the new information and what they already know. This helps them better understand new information, and retain it longer. It is therefore necessary for me as tutor to pay close attention to what a student already knows to better assist them with what they need help.

Second (this is a given but it is necessary to understand the third idea): learning progresses from understanding simple concepts, to more complex, nuanced, layered and abstract ones. This is important to keep in mind, because skills progress the same way. One cannot use more complex forms of logic, analysis, reasoning and problem solving than what he/she has already had experience with.

Third, knowledge aids in acquiring skills, and practicing skills serves in reinforcing knowledge - it is necessary therefore to do practice exercises in the target area of study to become proficient in that area. From this we can also conclude that the degree to which one is proficient in a particular type of exercise is an indicator of how well one understands the material that came before it. It is therefore necessary to look critically at the information students know to see how to present it to t" less...