Teaching should be well-prepared, not impromptu performance.

(Continued from "Tutoring Experts Are Not What You Think They Are")

Teaching should be well-prepared, not an impromptu performance.

The traits mentioned earlier (continued from "Tutoring Experts Are Not What You Think They Are") can all be enhanced through postnatal training. Especially the second and third points require extensive learning, thinking, and reading. Besides preparing within the scope of the curriculum, it's necessary to draw references from a wide range of materials, collect related or similar content, and do a good job of summarizing! As the saying goes, "Three minutes on stage, ten years of effort off stage!" Sometimes, solving problems only within the curriculum can be monotonous. Therefore, supplementing with some interesting questions or gifted education challenge questions is beneficial. If you appropriately add relevant historical anecdotes, explain the reasons behind these ideas, or discuss the purpose of developing this field, it will make learning more meaningful.

Since I was a student, I have firmly believed that although "problem-solving" has a certain importance, it is by no means the "goal" of learning. If many meaningful thoughts can be extended from the learning process, that is even more important! However, in the teaching process, in order to effectively cope with exams, problem-solving often plays the leading role, which is also understandable. Therefore, as a teacher, basic problem-solving skills are necessary.

All these abilities come from repeated preparation before class and continuous learning and accumulation. For the same topic, each preparation may bring different insights. Different students require designing different ways of expression. As long as one carefully prepares and designs the teaching content, pays attention to the arrangement of the sequence, the course will proceed more smoothly and perfectly!

Teaching is a responsibility, and even more so, a mission. It absolutely requires full preparation and should not be an impromptu performance. Preparation is for perfect execution!

When I was in graduate school, I once taught mathematics to a high school student. She was very serious and hardworking, ranking in the top ten in her school, but she always performed poorly in math, thus losing confidence in studying math.

One day, she told me that her previous tutor was my senior. Every time she didn't understand something, he would say to her, "Ah! This is so simple, what else do you want me to explain? Why don't you get it?" Every time she heard him say that, it made her feel like everything was due to her own stupidity!

Being a tutor requires empathy and must care about the student's feelings. Honestly speaking, if students already understood where the problem lies, they probably wouldn't need a tutor, right?

However, it's understandable why that senior acted that way. Everything went smoothly for him, and his academic journey encountered no significant setbacks, making it naturally difficult for him to imagine others' failures. Therefore, without putting in extra effort, even the highest degree might not necessarily make someone a good tutor!

I regard teaching as my mission, just like treating it as my stage, seriously preparing for every performance! Preparation actually represents a kind of confidence!

Excerpted from "I Earn a Million Yuan Annually Through Tutoring"

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