...Learning to read is a very personal and unique experience. I can help a child go from barely knowing her alphabet to learning how to put sounds together to make words. And from there, I can teach her how those words form sentences, and how the sentences make stories! (read more)
...Throughout my time at the co-op, I journeyed through the Saxon Math curriculum, from Saxon 8/7 to Advanced Mathematics. In a typical Math Seminar, students brought math problems to class that they were struggling with. The class, then, discussed the mathematical concepts concerned and solved the problem together. (read more)
...I have taught computer programming in Visual Basic, C++, and Java for 4 years to high school students and I have also taught Java to some very talented students in Johns Hopkins University's Center for Talented Youth for a year. My many years teaching computer programming and my experience work... (read more)
...I served as a TA throughout the rest of my career at Pitt and also during my master's degree at CMU (overall, 4 years). As a TA, I had multiple opportunities to teach students in both a 1-1 setting and a classroom setting. I would hold recitations for classes of up to 20-30 students and create s... (read more)
...Although I absolutely loved learning about the brain, I discovered that the particular kind of research I was involved in was not a good fit for me. I finally found data science, and learned data analysis through an online course, and having been working as a consultant since. I'm also a circus... (read more)