My creative idea of the week happened while I was tutoring this week. I tutor phy 11 and there was a specific concept that as much as I tried explaining, two of my tutees just couldn't understand it. They are both architecture majors and this is important because of what I did. I am a science&math loving person so that was the way I was solving the problem but they just could grasp what I was saying. And finally I tried drawing out a figure that explained the concept and they both understood it within 5 minutes. This experience I thought was really important because I saw that people see things differently and approach the same thing differently. Everybody's perspective is a bit different and when we have to work together everyone has to be able to compromise and be flexible.
That was a great idea you had of using a drawing to explain the concept. The problem a lot of students have when trying to learn Physics or another tough class is that they can't visualize it. A picture or a diagram helps a lot of people including myself understand the concept at hand.
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