I like to help students find ways to build skills and knowledge, while also increasing independence and confidence.

Get to know him/her and find out what their current knowledge and skills are.

By teaching and modeling strategies that are universal across all subjects, such as organization and study methods.

I would help him/her internalize the concept of a growth mindset. To stay motivated, he or she can achieve specific benchmarks and view the progress that he or she is making.

I would try a few different strategies to help him/her figure out which one is going to work best to learn this skill or concept. I would be creative in my approaches and reaffirm for him/her that there will be a strategy that will work for this problem, because there is always a way to learn something.

I teach active reading strategies, such as highlighting, underlining, making margin notes, and using other note-taking strategies.

I work on building a relationship with my students and figuring out what will work best when working with each individual student. Learning what motivates each student is paramount to helping him/her achieve.

Having the student answer deep questions that involve applying knowledge and skills to a novel problem.