...I am also a dedicated and student-focused teacher with the expertise to help students meet and exceed standards. My biggest strength is lesson planning. I organize a lesson in such a way that students can access prior knowledge, review academic vocabulary, have academic discourse as a class and in groups, and informally assess students’ understanding of the day's lesson. (read more)
...I have taught middle and high school math for 19 years. I taught all levels of math up to AP Statistics. I can teach 7th & 8th-grade math, Algebra 1, Geometry, Algebra 2, Trigonometry, Pre-Calculus, Probability & Statistics, and AP Statistics. (read more)
I have a PhD in statistics from UCLA (No. 1 public university in the US) and a BA double majoring in mathematics and economics from Swarthmore College (top 3 liberal arts college in the US). I have perfect GPAs from both schools (4.0 at UCLA and 3.99 at Swarthmore). I have published peer-reviewed pa... (read more)
...Why? Because it requires the students to use all the math they have learned prior. I find it fun to diagnose which math skill a student is lacking and to find ways to patch and strengthen it up. (read more)
...I have taught an "Intro to College" course at DeVry University that focused on study skills. I have counseled many students at Kaplan Test Prep about proper study skills for test subjects including math, grammar, logic, and medical information. Finally, I worked at a private one-to-one high sch... (read more)