...Understanding how our body works is exciting. Unfortunately to be able to understand and make connections a lot of material needs to be memorized. To make it easier I turn the concepts into stories. (read more)
I enjoy working with individual students and helping them with material that can sometimes seem less than exciting. The best reward is seeing the 'aha' moment when they understand the logic behind the material, rather than just memorizing steps. As a graduate student, I was awarded a 'teaching fellowship' for teaching excellence. (read more)
...I don't do this to make the student feel as if they don't know anything, but because I believe most students know more than they realize, and by answering questions for themselves and seeing how much they do know and can learn, many find that their problem subject is not as bad as they've come to... (read more)