...When I was going to school in Portland, I realized that I truly enjoyed teaching students the basics, but also helping them with subjects that were a bit more difficult. Specifically, I enjoyed teaching students about science, writing, and spelling. I student taught 5th grade for 4 months and 3rd graders for a year and a half as I was learning to become a teacher. (read more)
...My Master's degree is in International Relations. Our course load included Tocqueville's Democracy in America and Ikle's How Nations Negotiate, among many others. My lower division courses included classics in Psychology (Freud, Jung) and Philosophy (Plato, Spinoza, Voltaire, Spencer, Nietzsche... (read more)
...I have over 10 years of tutoring experience with the SAT. Many of my students have scored in the high 600s, 700s, (and a few 800s as well)! I have over 10+ years of experience helping students improve their scores on the ACT. I have helped students go from scores in the scores in the low to mid 20s to the thirties. (read more)
...My goal is to be a lighthouse, while my students navigate unknowns. I listen to their strengths and areas of improvement, then craft a strategy for strengthening problem areas. I follow the method of show 1, do 1 and teach 1. (read more)
...I have experience teaching calculus courses and various upper-level math courses at the University of Minnesota and the University of Washington. I am passionate about helping students develop the skills and confidence to figure out how to solve math problems. I believe that math can be an enjoyable subject that every student can understand if it is taught in the right way. (read more)