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Urashima Taro Perfil del(de la) tutor/a

My name is Taro Urashima (浦島太郎).
 
My specialization is theoretical physics but I also teach a variety of other subjects including mathematics (arithmetic), chemistry and English.

After having wandered abroad for some time as a researcher, I ended up on a coast of my home country, where I settled and started my teaching career at a local state university.

With the magical “Tamate box (玉手箱)” sealed firmly, I had been continually mistaken for a student, untill rather close to my retirement. It seems that the smoke has mostly leaked out by now; I am back in my hometown in the skirt of Tokyo, enjoying my study life with young folks.


★ Extensive teaching career
Although I am a newcomer here on Cafetalk, I have been teaching in one form or another for over 50 years.

It includes my student years as well as the period abroad. In the former period I worked as an academic tutor at a major prep school. I also helped in this period many pupils on a private basis, preparing them for the entrance examinations. I could say that most of them were sufficiently successful.

While I was working at the university, I was engaged in my research activity but I also devoted myself to teaching. In addition to the lectures, my undergraduate teaching was mainly through surveying & correcting the reports submitted by the sutudents. Many of them came to my lab for their diploma study, some chose to proceed to the doctorate. They are all making fine careers, either in the academic field or in the industry.

★ Diverse teaching
The lessons I offer on Cafetalk covers a wide range, accepting all ages of students from elementary schools to universities, currently including a candidate for a doctorate. The nationality also varies.

★ Flexible tailor-made lessons
The lessons are cllassified according to the japanese school education, but they are always to be adjusted to the individual needs.
 
More specialized lessons can also be organized for those who, e.g., want to start learning science from a younger age, or want to make suitable preparation to join a Japanese school from abroad.
Also available are short lessons focusing on a single issue of a subject, or just for a daily support on your home-study.

★ Teaching policy 
I consider teaching & learning to be the basis of human communication. To me teaching is of the same kind as performing collaborative research; the purpose is to reach mutual understanding.
 
Japanese traditional education tends to focus on making children get used to use things, rather than understand them. I remember, in my childhood, teachers would encourage us to learn things by repeating them mechanically, saying that one can scoop water even with a colander by accumulating droplets.
 
That way one can hardly understand things properly. A real understanding is attained only through good mutual communications. Instead of splashing water and collecting droplets, a caring mother brings a spoonful of water carefully to her baby's mouth, little by little. She may have to repeat it several times or more, but it is the only way to do it. It is like our scientific collaboration; we confirm frequently that we share the same view, nothing is being lost.

Over time, the baby will become able to use a mug instead of a spoon; learning will become progressively more interesting and efficient.


★ To prospective students, especially those preparing for university entrance exams
During entrance exams, you will have to solve problems on your own. Trying to memorize how to solve them will not help you acquire this ability.
 
Especially in science-related subjects, it is important to have a solid understanding of underlying concepts and to know the principles of how things work. When you have got a feeling that you have understood something, after having followed an explanation, it may often be the case that you have merely confirmed the explanation is logically correct.

Logical confirmation is surely the first step toward a real understanding; not the last. If you find it difficult after a few days to reproduce yourself what you have learned, it is not because you have forgotten, but simply because you had not yet got it.
 
Many of the lessons I offer are concerned about this point. Some of them provide rather intensive trainings to develope genuine problem-solving capability. You can read more about this in my lesson description for “数学演習 (Practice in Mathematics).”

★ Good fascilities for online learning
I still enjoy collaborating online with young researchers.  My private lab is equipped with a set of computing fascilities (PC cluster) connected to a high-vision camera, as well as a sizable blackboard, all of which we share online while I conduct online seminars. This is also an ideal environment for online lessons. 
 
In order to take advantage of this environment, the Cafetalk members are kindly asked to use a suitable monitor during the lessons for a sufficient quality of the blackboard view (I recommend having a monitor at least the size of an iPad). I offer lessons via Skype or Zoom, but Skype has a higher resolution which enables you to identify even the smallest subscripts attached to the mathematical symbols written on the blackboard.

★ Notable tutoring-related experiences
Graduated from Komaba Senior High School affiliated with the University of Tsukuba
Graduated from Tokyo Institute of Technology, Faculty of Science
Research Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
Yukawa Foundation Research Fellow, Institute for Fundamental Physics, Kyoto University
Senior Research Fellow, Department of Mathematics and Physics, University of East Anglia, U.K.
Visiting Researcher, Department of Physics, University of Neuchatel, Switzerland
Visiting Professor, Department of Physics, Queen’s University, Canada


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