Educator resume

My teaching/coaching experiences:
Presently, I do commercial advisory roles in financial literacy such as long term investments, economical analysis and personal financial planning. For educational roles, I cover up to, and have also taught undergraduate levels in topics such as finance, economics, accounting and applied mathematics.

I have taught and still presently teaching maths and sciences in the primary to secondary level and have accumulated about 4 years of experience in them thus far.

Schoolwork aside, I also do coaching on physical training in areas of calisthenics, powerlifting, weight loss and other personal targets.

What teaching materials do I use?
Throughout my years of teaching I do not use standardized teaching materials. It ranges from teaching open-textbook to on-the-spot case studies and discussion depending on the student's strength and weaknesses.

I find teaching while drawing diagrams/writing equations makes the student understand it much better step by step instead of presenting it all at once. Therefore my materials are adaptive based on what the situation requires. I do use a variety of props in teaching science since it is a study on real life applications and hands-on experience allows greatest interest and learning.

Teaching style and approach
The students I dealt with are usually keen in the subject I am teaching, just that sometimes abstract, difficult to grasp concepts diminishes their interest. Most textbooks and teachers explain technically without enough real-life examples and simplification. I believe that if one cannot explain things simply, then one does not understand the subject well enough. 

When students are learning something new, it is ALWAYS complicated to them, even though it might not appear so to the teacher. This is the Dunning–Kruger effect. I have always based my teaching on the student viewpoint, understanding that concepts appearing easy to the experienced are not so for the uninitiated. Therefore I always simplify tough concepts into simple ones and allow the student to understand from the basics. This would allow one to fully know and apply what a concept is instead of what we call 'die die memorise'.

I teach university-level as a student mentor presently and concepts are definitely not easy to understand. However by bringing real-life examples (very important in mathematics and economics), I let students try to link abstract monetary policies to why is this happening in real life, and that would allow them to grasp the concept. In the secondary level, students are more concerned about 'how will this knowledge help me in the future?' especially the learning of algebra & trigonometry. Therefore I have always linked science, finance and engineering to let students know the importance, universal applicability and beauty of mathematics.

Note: I usually refrain from teaching rebellious and/or students simply not interested in any form of studying since I am an educator and not a disciplinary figure. I am unable to help those who are unwilling to learn. This is understandable for children who are too young, which is why I do not prefer teaching primary 1-2 levels as they have a tendency to run around the house and play instead of learning and that wouldn't reflect well on me either.

Writeup About Myself:
I have always viewed myself as an intellectual, that is not to say I am a genius or prodigy of some sort, but I love the pursuit of knowledge. I also believe that knowledge is like happiness, it only multiplies when shared. So basically, I love learning and teaching. Evidently, my knowledge also branches into various fields such as engineering, sports and fitness, finance, economics, accounting, building computers, psychology and recently, computer science. I also do fitness training and investments education.

Notable student achievements:
My most recent achievements would be to crash course several students from failing single-digit % in their prelims to getting first class honours in the finals in the span of 2 months. This include different subjects such as maths, economics, finance and accounting. However, I do not recommend crash coursing students simply for the sake of exams since most of the time it is extremely memorization based and does not teach them to inherently understand the topics.

Previously I taught maths and science to a NA student who is just passing her subjects and within a year (sec 2), she managed to score As in both and got promoted to the express stream. I have continued tutoring her in physics, chemistry, e maths and a maths till her O levels where she scored As in all of them as well. Most primary school students I have been teaching are already scoring pretty good grades themselves and I was hired to teach outside the syllabus, enhance their general knowledge and to prepare them for further learning in the higher levels, which I believe I have done well too.