I have seventeen years experience teaching high school mathematics and I have had numerous tutoring jobs over the years. I have a great deal of experience teaching students of varying math abilities and when explaining concepts/skills/ideas to a student I work hard to make the problem relevant and understandable for the individual student. (read more)
...Following my undergraduate program I was assessed and licensed by the state of Vermont to teach 7th-12th graders Mathematics. Also while in my undergraduate I worked as a mentor and tutor for adults with disabilities in college level classes. This experience along with tutoring middle and high school students through an after school program confirmed my desire to teach. (read more)
...My goal is that all my students develop the skills necessary to think through problems and learn effectively on their own. In college I took a seminar on how to teach English to non-native learners. This seminar included teaching classes twice a week to English learners. (read more)
41 Subjects: includingAlgebra 2,Elementary (K-6th),Elementary Math,ACT Math
...The story was framed as a murder mystery to investigate if the victim's mother killed her daughter. The class went on an investigation utilizing their conversions to moles to grams and to particle count to determine if the mother killed the daughter. In the end, it was discovered there were foreign contaminants in the pills which we discovered through mass spectrometry data. (read more)
10 Subjects: includingCalculus,Geometry,Precalculus,SAT Math
...Music, Minor in Jazz Performance @ UCSC. Proficient with piano and voice. Guitar is my main instrument, I have been playing seriously for over 15 years as a singer songwriter. (read more)