Fun Facts

Despite not knowing a word of Russian when I entered college, I have been taking Russian for 3 years now, and I spent my last summer in Moscow in an immersion environment! I love the hometown sports teams, especially the Braves and Falcons, of which I am a die hard fan. Also, I played golf on my high school golf team and enjoy other sports like soccer, as well as reading and playing video games.

About Me

My name is Alex Rohrer and I'm a third-year Industrial Engineering major at Georgia Tech. I was born in Charlotte, NC, but I've lived pretty much my whole life around the Atlanta area. I have three siblings, ages 9, 7, and 6. I love math, psychology, and languages. I also really love helping people, especially kids, to do better in school.

Throughout middle and high school, and even now in college, I was always one of the people my friends turned to for help with school work. I often volunteered to help people after school a few times a week. In addition, I have gained an enormous amount of experience with elementary aged kids because I have three siblings all under the age of ten. I've also tutored students at Centennial Elementary school through a program that sends volunteer atlanta">tutors from Georgia Tech during the school day to help in the classroom setting. I've learned the best ways to get them to understand new things and stay interested. Similarly, with older kids, I can almost always find the right way to explain a concept to make it easier to understand.

My approach to atlanta">tutoring focuses on two main concepts. The first is teaching through concrete examples, incorporating ideas or methods the student already understands. Doing this simplifies problems and leads to the second concept, which is allowing students to make realizations for themselves. I've found the best way to learn something new (and *remember* it) is to make connections on your own. Being told information and then memorizing it is a way to temporarily learn something, but not a way to master it. It's a atlanta">tutor's job to give the student the tools they need to find the answer and then assist them through a trial and error process, not simply to tell them the answer.