I began tutoring during high school, continued through college, and began teaching regular classes during graduate school. After earning my PhD in Mathematics, I taught at a small, highly-selective Liberal Arts College and later at a public Minority-Serving Institution. I have received several teaching awards and was a tenured professor. (read more)
...Three major items that qualify me: I have passed the PRAXIS exam myself, I have tutored math for about 7 years, and my career was in broadcast engineering where I studied and used lots of math. I have worked with electronics from the age of 14 when I got a job in a TV repair shop. Since then I ... (read more)
...I've also enjoyed teaching AP Computer Science while in China. I try to teach from a practical, rather than conceptual point of view. I find that this brings meaning to the theory and often... immediate understanding where there was none before. (read more)
...I value patience and compassion. I believe there are no "stupid questions" and that everyone has to start somewhere. Learning is a process that starts with building a strong foundation that can properly support new and more complex concepts. (read more)
...Professors and teachers have a limited amount of time to answer every student's question; they are bound to cover the required material within the given time frame regardless of whether the student understands it or not. For example, my differential equations professor will often respond to stud... (read more)