For all subjects, my initial aim is to understand my students as individuals--their academic histories, their learning styles, their goals, their needs, their strengths, and their weaknesses are all taken into consideration as I develop an approach that will maximize success for each unique student.

In order to successfully conquer the three major problems students face when it comes to standardized testing—lack of familiarity with vital concepts covered; lack of repeated practice applying these concepts to challenging problems; and decreased accuracy due to a lack of confidence under the pressures and constraints of the test-taking scenario—each personalized curriculum emphasizes all three phases to progressively boost each student's performance.

In strengthening students’ understanding of the writing process, I focus on the development of a student's distinctive voice as a writer in order to strengthen his/her understanding of structural effectiveness and grammatical accuracy based on the idea that if students are placed in a position to care more about what they wish to communicate from the inside out rather than from the outside in, it becomes more important on a personal level to understand how to communicate it most accurately and effectively. Some students can throw together an “A” paper in one hectic night; most students cannot. For those students, acknowledgement and understanding of common writing errors and the value of the writing process are vital to fulfilling their potentials as academic writers. My personalized techniques aim to achieve that necessary mastery in each of my students.