Information About Frank - Albany tutor -

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Personal Description:

I have a Phd in Financial Economics, with a BA in Economics, and MA in Economics

Tutoring Experience:

I have been teaching/tutoring in Economics, Finance, Statistics and Math courses more than 15 years.

Tutoring Approach:

My approach to teaching is based on emphasizing two key elements of instructing for college courses. The first one is to make the courses simple and clear enough that everybody in class would understand the majority of the course load regardless of their educational background. Depending on the course’s objectives, in order to make the course clear enough, I use the media and technology vastly. For example, for a Project Evaluation or Spreadsheet Modelling courses, students are needed to learn and apply M.S. excel program. Accordingly, I intend to make computer-hours (on the top of the lecture hours in the class), to make sure that they understand independently the use of the M.S. Excel program to solve the finance/economics exercises. Another tool I have been using is adapting the courses to real life as much as possible.

The second element is to give the idea to the students that they will not be successful unless they work hard enough; this makes them complete the requirements of the course. I evaluate my class early to find out whether students begin to lose the main picture of the course or not. Middle of the semester is too late to realize that you have lost half of your class. By giving quizzes, assignments or homework, I try to get a feel for my students early so that I can shape my class to their abilities and needs.

More importantly, I want to make sure students are able to use these theories/ analytical tools, into the real life. More important tool would be having a project for the course, which helps students both understand and use the theories/analytical tools, adequately. Secondly, I want to make sure they are able to express themselves. Accordingly I encourage them to present their project on the class, which would be a good practice for them before graduating.

Keeping different motivation for different classes in mind, I intend to use these objectives above. However, given that I partially teach to distance students, some of my methods are inapplicable.
But, teaching to distance students helped me to improve course materials. I eventually have the habit to prepare all my lecture notes/PowerPoint slides typed, upload them to the course web-site, and discuss more examples (apart from the ones discussed in the class hours). Also, I also return back to students e-mails, phone calls as soon as possible (during 6 hours under normal circumstances).