If you have any experience teaching, you know that you will run into this situation time and time again. The best teachers have various strategies in their back pocket to use to help students. Some of these strategies include allowing a peer to teach the student, scaffolding the material to break down each step, having the student reference notes, providing several practice problems, assigning group work, walking the student through your thought process, creating anchor charts to reference, rewarding the student for their persistence, and encouraging the student as they work hard. Pick a few of these and describe how they could help the student in understanding the content.