"There are many teachers out there, but few who understand the art of teaching. Each student needs a personalized and tailored approach in order to help them gain the skills they need to succeed in life. Too many tutors out there treat every student the same, and don't give any thought to student care and mentoring that high school students need to motivate them.

My journey as a teacher has been a long one that is difficult to sum up in a paragraph. It has been a life-long endeavor that started when at the age of 17 I went to Japan by myself to teach English to K-12 students during my summer before senior year. From there I have been teaching consistently since: as an English conversation teacher in Japan, a TA while pursuing my graduate degrees from Kyushu University and the University of British Columbia, and as a lecturer at UBC and Yale. Throughout my life, teaching has been the passion that drives me, and so I like to have a small cohort of students that I can mentor and tutor between my research and my professorial teaching.

My method of teaching any subject focuses on techniques and skills to help students become self-sufficient and self-directed learners. I could go on about andragogy vs pedagogy (which I presented on at a conference last summer), but the short of it is that I will not only teach your student knowledge and skills, but also the processes for obtaining knowledge and skills on their own. I will do my best to set up my students for life-long learning, and look forward to working with you and your student." less...