...ABA training in special education, college psychology former manager with the Boys and Girls Club of Dane County (center has specialized GED program) and experience tutoring GED science geoscience tutoring through general science tutoring courses about mountains and tectonic plates and environme... (read more)
My name is Cayla Stifler and I am a tutor with a PhD in physics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. I have been tutoring for 10 years and in that time, I have attended tutoring conferences and given presentations on best practices for teaching. I even won an award for teaching when I was a teaching assistant. (read more)
...I can switch between doing example problems for the student to solidify understanding, explaining why certain ideas are important for a class or for real-world applications to drive motivation, or figuring out how a student thinks about math by watching them work on problems to identify missing c... (read more)
...I will not schedule a meeting until (2) is answered, and I insist on talking with a potential student first. This is to assess fit and rapport. I might be a great tutor and you might be a great student, but if we can't work and communicate well together, then it's not going to work out.
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