The progression of my project

So far my project has been a great success in person although new challenges have presented themselves. The main challenge is that I realized how hard it is to teach people. Across the majority of this project, I have been teaching things I know quite well, financial statements, ratios, analyzing a company through yahoo finance, and analyzing a case study or math concepts I studied a year ago. But as one would expect the people I am teaching don’t know these things at the same level I do. Therefore it has been hard to find a way to teach them these things in a way they understand. Simply explaining it in the way I understand doesn’t always work and that is frustrating. The way that I have found most effective is working it out step by step with my students and allowing their understanding to develop in an all-around way. This is a privilege I have with working in a small group and I have seen the benefits not only for them but myself. This project may be helpful for teaching members of my community, but I have seen how helping others can help you. Specifically for math, I was helping Jojo learn proof by induction a concept I had learned over a year ago and understood well. But in the process of teaching this concept, I gained a greater understanding of how it works. Additionally in the Wharton Global Youth program one week we started talking about what a short was. I had never really understood what it was but after explaining it, going back, and forth, I finally understood. Overall this project has presented me with a challenge in finding the best way to teach people, but this challenge has allowed me to grow as a teacher, experiencing how as a teacher your students can teach you as much as you teach them.