Andres Toussieh

Tutored individually dedicated high school students who were looking to further their Spanish fluency. Using methods learned through interviewing various Spanish teachers from the my school district, I created "La Forma Toussieh", which translated to "The Toussieh Way", a teaching curriculum and methodology with conversationally fluency at its core. A focus on talking and listening to Spanish as much as possible, and paying less attention to writing and grammar, as I found the majority of clients expressed more desire to speak Spanish than write it.

While COVID-19 took the world by storm, I was turned onto chess after a heart wrenching check-mate, delivered to me by my brother. With online classes in full blast, my interest in what my zoom professor faded, and I found myself playing chess to pass the hours. Week after week I improved, until suddenly, after eight months of obsessive play, my online chess rating broke 1700. Sharing my triumph with a friend, he asked if I'd consider being a tutor, since his younger brother, Jasper, was interested in improving his game. I looked back on all of the strategies I'd used to become better at chess in the last few months and compiled a list of the most useful methods. Just like "La forma Toussieh", I created my own chess curriculum, developed for improving chess cognition and instinct. It's focus was to develop a dangerous creativity that took opponents out of their comfort zone. This initial tutoring venture gave me the confidence to have a try my hand at Spanish.

Meet with clients and discuss current exercise routine and diet. Set ambitious, but reachable goals. Next, use their needs to outline a personal, fully customized week long exercise planner, complete with scheduled training sessions and breaks downs of which exercises, how they are done, and how long to do them for. Scheduled into the weekly planner, training sessions where I work along side clients to coach them, maximizing the effectiveness of their time in the gym. Next, a breakdown of their diet, striking a balance between the foods they love to eat and the foods that are stopping them from achieving their goals. Replacing unhealthy meals with cleaner alternative recipes, tailored to match the clients physical aspirations.