...After college, I became a day to day substitute within the Spring-Ford School. I received a long-term substitute position for the next two years, and then received a 3rd grade contracted position in the fall of 2016. I stayed in that position until the fall of 2021 when I became an ESL teacher within the same district. (read more)
...In the meantime, my goal is to pass my knowledge onto children in a way that is fun enough to be engaging and interesting, and yet still focused on the topic at hand. After graduating high school, I realized that my passion in many subjects wasn't something that I had from the start. In fact, I... (read more)
...As for my tutoring methodology, I choose to embody an individualized, holistic approach that focuses on a student's existing strengths rather than emphasizing their weaknesses or challenges. My priority is giving the best scaffold possible for individuals to work towards personal academic succes... (read more)
...First, they need to understand the new types of problems (algebra, numbers, and operations, etc.). Those with weaker math skills will need practice to improve performance in the no-calculator and grid-in sections. The removal of the penalty for guessing changes test strategies considerably. Students also need practice on full length tests to learn how much time to spend on each answer. (read more)
...For my dissertation I researched statistical and probabilistic models of medical diagnosis. More recently I've been using biostatistics to help build mobile preventive health apps. I've tutored students in statistics courses using SPSS and StatCrunch and have expertise in the statistical programming language R. (read more)