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Studentyguy
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Hey everyone,
I recently got a job tutoring a High School student in physics. I'm in fourth year at university. I've just had my first session, and I quite enjoyed it. Though I'm now very nervous about my student's upcoming test.
I'd like to give some interesting physics related examples to teach them (I'm thinking something like Flying Circus of Physics). Also, I'd like to show him several different ways of doing problems, to help overall understanding (it works for me!). However, the education system in this country has students doing several test throughout the year, which MUST be passed. So I don't want to use up the limited time I have showing this stuff, and possibly confusing them with too many methods. They have already failed one test before I met them and are doing the resit soon.
On the other hand, I'm worried that simply teaching to the tests is only helping them short term, and won't really help with long term understanding. I really want to help them do well in physics, not just scrape a pass. But if they don't pass the tests...
I gather that there's some experienced tutors and teachers on here. I'm interested in hearing what you guys think. :-)
I recently got a job tutoring a High School student in physics. I'm in fourth year at university. I've just had my first session, and I quite enjoyed it. Though I'm now very nervous about my student's upcoming test.
I'd like to give some interesting physics related examples to teach them (I'm thinking something like Flying Circus of Physics). Also, I'd like to show him several different ways of doing problems, to help overall understanding (it works for me!). However, the education system in this country has students doing several test throughout the year, which MUST be passed. So I don't want to use up the limited time I have showing this stuff, and possibly confusing them with too many methods. They have already failed one test before I met them and are doing the resit soon.
On the other hand, I'm worried that simply teaching to the tests is only helping them short term, and won't really help with long term understanding. I really want to help them do well in physics, not just scrape a pass. But if they don't pass the tests...
I gather that there's some experienced tutors and teachers on here. I'm interested in hearing what you guys think. :-)