...I worked as a teaching assistant for Calculus 1 in Fall 2015 and for ChemEng120 Fundamentals in Spring 2016 at UMass, Amherst. I have been volunteering at a local high school (Amherst Regional High School) as a teaching assistant for precalculus honors and AP BC calculus since 2013. I worked at Polymer Science and Engineering Lab as an undergraduate researcher from 2017-2019. (read more)
...I have my Massachusetts teaching license for High School and Middle School English Language Arts and Theater. I have tutored in Math for grades 1-10. I have a 4.0 G.P.A. from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and an M.F.A. from Goddard College with one of my focuses being Education. (read more)
...I like to start my tutoring sessions with a few minutes of casual conversation to get to know the student better which will make it more likely that they will feel comfortable asking questions. I can review homework with the student or if there is a topic the student would like to review, I will... (read more)
...I have experience teaching 6th and 7th grade math. I am certified to teach everything from 5th grade math to high school math. I graduated from Union College in 2011 with a degree in Economics and minored in mathematics and psychology. (read more)
As I tell all my students, please call me Alison, not Dr. Wood. I've been an engineering professor for 8 years and have 10 years of tutoring experience before that. (read more)