...I'm entering my third year as a Wyzant tutor (after 5 years at Chegg) and am loving the continued opportunities to help students succeed! I started my teaching "career" in the 6th grade, when a neighbor hired me to tutor her sons in math. As an undergraduate and graduate student, I tutored in a... (read more)
...I graduated in 2019 with a Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering (hardware and software). I spent a few years in the software field and thoroughly enjoyed it, but I could not get away from my passion for teaching. For more than a year, I’ve spent hundreds of hours helping students just lik... (read more)
...Let me prove it to you. :) I have a math PhD and twenty years teaching and tutoring experience with all levels of math. I have taught and tutored trigonometry many times over the years, and I have had hundreds of trigonometry students. By now I know exactly where students get confused, exactly which explanations work best, the most efficient ways to explain each concept, and so on. (read more)
...I am an active member of the International Dyslexia Association and attend conferences regularly in addition to reading many books and research articles on teaching the dyslexic student. I use the Orton-Gillingham Method as well as other teaching methods to personalize instruction for each student. As an honors graduate in biology, Genetics was one of my core courses. (read more)