“Am I Not Enough?” Navigating the Teacher-Tutor Power Struggle in Hong Kong The first time it happened, I was reviewing a calculus problem on the whiteboard. I was midway through explaining the conceptual derivation of the chain rule—passionate, animated, trying to get that “lightbulb” moment—when a hand shot up in the back. It was Jason, […]
Tutoring
I Tutored The Same College Student For 4 Years. Here’s What I Learned.
My school is about to graduate its sixth class of students. In independent school years, it is a young institution. By comparison, some of the older schools in my area have been around for 173 years and 328 years- a few more than our 11. As a young school, we have had to be particularly […]
