...Before I was hired to tutor high school math, I had to take a proficiency exam to determine my readiness to tutor at that level. My mathematical accuracy, knowledge and ability only increased as I spent eight hours a day immersed in the subject for a year. Not only am I able to catch students' ... (read more)
5 Subjects: includingPrealgebra,Algebra 1,Elementary (K-6th),Elementary Math
...I enjoy tutoring because it gives me a chance to work one-on-one with a student. Many students do not yet have the patience to sit in a classroom for 50 minutes and take in a lecture, so tutoring gives them the opportunity to work in a more desirable environment. When tutoring a student, I firs... (read more)
...Children need to be taught in ways that keep their interest and words that they understand. My hope is that all children are at or above grade level and think learning new things is fun. I use various materials for my phonics program including Wilson phonics. (read more)
...I took the MCAT in the summer of 2015. My score report was as follows. MCAT scores:
Physical Sciences: 14 99th percentile
Verbal Reasoning: 11 95th percentile
Biological Sciences: 10 76th percentile
Overall: 35 96th percentile
I took the MCAT twice. (read more)
...My teaching style is to first talk with the student to see what the problems they are having with the particular subject we are working on and then ask them a number of questions about that subject to see exactly what they know and what they do not know and what in particular they are having trou... (read more)