...Previously, my tutoring/teaching experience has been in mathematics. I have helped tutor kids from 2nd grade through 12th grade. In high school, I was a teaching assistant for Geometry and Algebra II in classes with 25 students each. (read more)
...In addition, I have also taught Calculus in the Diploma Years levels of the IB curriculum, at the SL and HL levels. In my 11 years of teaching AP Calculus, only a few handful of students have scored anything less than a 5 in any given year. I have taught full-year geometry courses at every level, from students who struggle with math to students who are in our most accelerated honors course. (read more)
...Much of my Masters coursework and research has also focused on ESL students. I took classes in second language acquisition and bilingual education. My research projects focused on assessing language based learning disabilities in students for whom English is a second language. (read more)
...In addition, over the years I have done one-on-one math tutoring to middle-school and high-school students. My teaching approach relies on a combination of concept discovery/derivation and a lot of practice -- teaching some of the fundamental principles and then asking the student to internalize... (read more)
...With over three decades of experience preparing students for the SAT's reading sections, as well as for similar sections of such exams as the PSAT, ACT, and GRE, I am extremely familiar with the numerous tricks and traps that can trip up unwary test-takers. As a practicing attorney, I am also un... (read more)