“I had a lot of trouble grasping concepts because of the way my teachers taught them to me.  Like they would do example after example on the overhead.”

“They would just tell us how they got the answer, not really explain the reasoning behind it.  So I never really knew why I was doing anything.  When I would work with a tutor, I almost felt like they were giving me answers to my homework assignments, not helping me with it.”

“Going to her really helped because it kind was like I had that second teacher on the side.  You know, I'd show her the notes and she'd point out things to me.  She cleaned up the "mess" from my first teacher.”