Hi, everyone!
We hope you had a wonderful week! In this post, we are excited to celebrate a tutor’s success and provide some clarification and reminders. Thank you for your continued dedication to ensuring that every student is empowered to learn!
Tutor Spotlight
Congratulations to our tutor spotlight: Murali Namburi! Murali submitted an outstanding session he had with a student where they worked together to solve an integration problem using u-substitution. The steps involved in u-substitution can be difficult to clearly explain, particularly in text, but Murali’s expert use of the whiteboard aided in the efficiency and clarity of his instruction. Murali commented that this session demonstrated “how we could use visual aids to teach even a difficult topic and deliver clear explanations.” Murali used the whiteboard throughout the session to provide clear instruction and to summarize the student’s work when they completed the problem. This summary technique is particularly effective because it supplies the student with a synopsis of the work they completed while providing a clear framework to return to in the future.
Murali finished the session by asking the student for a summary of the u-substitution method. This pushed the student to create their own procedural checklist which would be easily applied to future problems.
All of this was accomplished in a 24-minute session (feel free to review the entire transcript here)! The student reflected on her time with Murali by sharing “Mr. Varma is always very nice and explains the steps so well. Thank you, Mr. V!”. We couldn’t agree with her more!
Congratulations again, Murali and thank you to everyone who submitted highlights from their sessions – it truly was a pleasure to read through your submissions!
Day Light Savings
Day Light Savings (DST) begins in the United States at 2:00 a.m. PST on Sunday, March 13. This means that Pacific Standard Time (PST) will shift one hour forward at 2:00 a.m. on the 13th. We need to understand the impact that this will have on all of our tutors that work all over the world. Please take a few moments to complete the Daylight Savings Scheduling 2022 survey.
If you have more specific requests or input into how DST will affect your schedule, please complete the survey and slack Haddie with your particular details. We will do our best to accommodate you within the constraints of our schedule and student demand.
Responses are needed by 12:00 p.m. PST on Monday, March 7. If you do not respond, we will NOT make any changes to your schedule.
Reminders
