...I have a student-centered teaching philosophy.I have taught reading in both English and Russian. I worked for several years at Sylvan Learning Center in Portland, Or, improving students' reading, writing and math skills in a one-on-one environment. I taught reading to a group of foreign exchange students. (read more)
...I have experience working with middle school students, graduate-level engineering students, to adults. Specifically, I have experience working as a teaching assistant while doing my Ph.D., where I worked with students starting from freshmen to seniors. Furthermore, while doing my bachelor’s, I was a voluntary teacher for mathematics and science for high school students. (read more)
...I find comfort in the structured logic of math and programming. It gives me a small amount of hope that our existence can be understood and measured in times when nothing makes sense and the world feels like it's falling apart. I pride myself in being able to listen attentively and meet my students at their own level in order to build from there. (read more)
...As of 2022, I am working as a data analyst for the state of New York, but continue to teach at SUNY Albany as an adjunct. I remember in 2002, when I was a teaching assistant in Harvard's econometrics course, I was passing out cookies in the dining hall at midnight when I came across a group of s... (read more)
...I make Mathematics a valuable skill to students, so that they feel there is a purpose in their learning. Studying mathematics is not supposed to feel lousy. All (new) mathematics feels impossible, until you master each skill. (read more)