I am a focused individual who takes work seriously. I take pride in my work, so I attempt to complete any task to the best of my ability. I work well with others and follow directions easily. I am able to articulate and convey my thoughts clearly and quickly.
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...graduated from Washington University in St. Louis with a Bachelors of Arts and Sciences. While at Washington University, I majored in an interdisciplinary program for philosophy, neuroscience, and psychology, as well as completed the prerequisites for medical school. I served as a residential advisor for two years and have experience tutoring and counseling students in that capacity. I believe taking the time to listen to and understand others is the best way to find out...
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...psychology and writing students, and also worked as a stage manager in the music department. After college, I headed to The Ohio State University where I earned a Ph.D. in cognitive psychology with a specialization in college teaching. While I was a graduate student, I taught general psychology and ACT prep courses and scored ACT and SAT writing exams. Thanks to my education, I am an expert in psychology, reading, writing, and general scientific literacy....
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...classes and pick up many different study skills, which I hope to be able to share by tutoring. I am a strong believer that any student is capable of learning anything. With motivation, resources, and help where needed, no academic subject is ever entirely out of reach. My goal as a tutor is to not only help students understand concepts or perform well on exams, but also develop skills that will help them succeed independently...
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...sciences focused studies, and will pursue a Bachelors of Commerce with a focus in marketing at the University of British Columbia. I have traveled extensively in Europe and North America, both for leisure and to compete in international Model UN conferences, and I feel this has contributed greatly to who I am today. My French is conversational (and I do love to converse). I have tutored both native and non-native English speakers in a multitude...
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...study guides and ran study review sessions. I am very friendly and personable and love teaching all subjects, but psychology is my favorite. I know everybody learns differently and I love figuring out which teaching styles work best for each student. Psychology involves many theories and abstract concepts so I find it helpful to provide real world examples that can help my students really understand. Personally, I learn best when I can receive the information...
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I am a junior at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia double majoring in Political Science and Psychology. I have previous tutoring experience in ACT, reading, writing, math, and history. ... I don't have one teaching philosophy. Every student has a different learning style, and I try my hardest to accommodate all learning habits.
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...time developing my teaching and tutoring skills. I have taught several college courses and loved every minute of it. I was also able to spend two years as a private tutor, providing one-on-one assistance with writing and test taking preparation for a college student in Psychology. I am also my little sister???s unofficial Spanish tutor ??? she is a high school student currently taking Spanish 2. She likes the extra help from time to time,...
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...find a way to make everything interesting. My goal as an educator and as a human being is to find the wonder and humor in everything that I learn and teach. I would love to share this experience with you. I've spent over ten years educating informally as well as professionally in environments which range from K-12 classrooms and higher education to the zoo. I graduated with accolades from Florida State University with a degree...
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...several projects during my stay at UCD. Besides my love for nature, I also enjoy math. It is the main subject I tutor in, and I find it very rewarding helping students understand different mathematical concepts. I have had previous experience in this subject with students from all grade levels. I also tutor in conversational Spanish, since I am fluent in Spanish. During my free time I enjoy knitting, reading, bird watching, and learning to...
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...hold a Masters Degree in Clinical Psychology; I have training as a child psychotherapist in Los Angeles. I have seen most of my students progress due to the individualized goals I create based on their specific learning dynamics. I love working with students and finding unique ways to help them reach their objectives. As an educator and trained psychotherapist, I have utilized many techniques that have proven successful in basic academic skills, organizational skills, communication, stress...
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...have had the opportunity and benefit of having many different education and leadership positions in my career. Yet, when someone asks me what is my career, I inevitably respond "I am a teacher." In my experience, nothing matches the satisfaction and excitement when a student "gets it," asks related questions, or even challenges the veracity/usefulness of the new idea/concept. I will use whatever resources/approaches that aid my student/learning partner in reaching a true understanding of...
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...graduating, I have worked at a YMCA Learning Center as a Preschool Teacher Assistant, camp counselor, after-school counselor, art program leader and childcare provider for all ages. I tutored children (K-8) in the after-school program in all subjects, overseeing study time and assisting students with homework. I also worked as a data analyst for the Data Recognition Corporation: reading, assessing and scoring standardized tests in a variety of subjects for grades K-12. I worked on...
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...feel highly comfortable tutoring high school students, college students, and graduate students in biological sciences and especially human genetics. I'm a very interactive tutor and feel students learn best when it is a discussion and not a lecture. My core philosophy is to teach students how to approach questions or material they are struggling with in a manner that can be applied across the subject. Outside of tutoring I am an avid cyclist, triathlete, and...
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...that individual to make a positive change in their life as well as in turn a positive change in someone else's life. By helping students succeed academically will help them to develop the skills and knowledge they need to make a difference in their communities and beyond. I want to be that person that played a part in helping that individual to become a success in their life. I am someone that enjoys helping others...
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...assistant professor who enjoys engaging with students and helping them achieve their full potential. I have experience teaching many many subjects such as English, literature, history, writing, psychology, anatomy, biology, as well as many test prep subjects. I am very passionate about tutoring and love to motivate my students and cater to their learning style in order to maximize their scores. I have worked with students in middle school and high school and have also...
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...I tutored about 10 different students in areas such as English, Spanish (I am a native speaker), math, history, test prep, and even music performance. Now in college, I have 5 students, and I tutor them in math, reading, writing, grammar, proofreading, and in the development of useful skills such as time management, organization, staying focused and on task, and more. I find tutoring to be an extremely rewarding experience, both for the student and...
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...on a love for learning. I have worked as a private SAT, ACT, writing, math, literature, history, and science coach for 3 years. Furthermore, I have taught ACT, SAT, grammar, and math, classes to middle and high-school students for two years. In these roles, I have truly loved empowering students. I understand that no two students are alike, so I enjoy developing personalized plans for each of my students. I am dedicated to helping students...
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...to become and remain a life-long learner. I have hands on teaching experience from Pre-K through adult learners. I believe every student WILL experience success if their educators practice active listening and adaptive teaching techniques. My goal is to find out how YOU learn and adapt my process to YOU. In my "free time," I am an avid reader, pianist and cook. I attend as much theatre as I can and spoil my dog rotten!
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...doing psychological research and very much enjoy this branch of experimental psychology. For the last two years I have regularly tutored online, helping students primarily in late middle and high school reach their academic goals. More recently I have worked with first year college students and adult learners. I am extremely passionate about psychology, but I also really enjoy tutoring English. Literary analysis can be fun, I promise! When I am tutoring a student, I...
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AP Psychology gives high school students the opportunity to study human thought processes, motivation, and behavior in a course that presents them with college-level challenges and expectations. Students who earn excellent grades in the course can gain an impressive achievement to add to their transcripts, and those who earn excellent scores on the cumulative AP Psychology exam can be awarded with college credits long before setting a foot on campus. Covering everything from the history of the field to specific aspects of various theories, from the analysis of data in a variety of forms to the designing of statistically and scientifically valid experiments, AP Psychology can easily feel like too much to handle in the course of a semester, especially to a student who is already taking a full and rigorous course load and has a variety of extracurricular commitments. Don't give up on your ambition to conquer AP Psychology - get help instead!
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AP Psychology instructors are able to identify the exact aspects of the subject that you need to focus on in order to succeed. They use a combination of assessments, practice work, and conversations to quickly pinpoint areas that you excel in, as well as ones that you need to work in. They can use this insight to design a curriculum for your AP Psychology tutoring sessions that addresses these topics and concepts specifically. Your sessions can then help you master precisely what you need to learn to succeed, allowing them to be extremely efficient.
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Recent AP Psychology Tutoring Session Notes
With the student, I also created a system for her to effectively study a lot of material. I showed her a better way to take reading notes using bullet points; suggested an approach to studying the chapter, by reviewing sidebars, graphs, and the questions throughout and at the end of the chapter. We then reviewed her chapter on neurons, etc. We also discussed a way to handle the stress she was feeling with the subject.
We went over the student's paper and discussed her understanding of the concepts as well as fine-tuned her approach in order to take into consideration variation in personalities. We then went over the topics in her chapter that she will be tested on in order to review and make sure she understood them. When she was unclear about something or when she had a hard time remembering certain concepts we went over them in more detail, and I gave her several examples to help make the concepts less abstract.
Continued prepping for test on Classical. He is able to recall some of the concepts better than during previous sessions. Seems to have a better grasp of topics.
We began a review for the student's unit test on Cognition, Thinking and Language. She had a slideshow and note from the teacher, which we reviewed slide by slide while referring to the textbook, giving examples, and elaborating on the information contained on the slide. I had her teach me a lot of the material and give her own examples as a study tool, and a way for her to better remember all of the information. Her class average is a 92, and she is hoping to bring it up to a 95. We also completed an extra credit paper comparing Skinner and Chomsky.
Today was my first day meeting with the student. I got to meet the family who I got along with very well. Started off just getting to know the student to make sure she was comfortable around me and then went over the basic overview of what the psychology test is like. She told me that she mainly struggled with the aspects of the class that involved biology because of the heavy memorization that it required. She also needed to get a better knowledge of famous psychologists and their experiments. We worked on a lot of vocabulary - she started off excellently getting most of them spot on. When we got to the brain however and identifying different parts of the brain and their function she struggled a lot. Spent a majority of the time working through vocab and going over the different parts of the brain a few times at the end.
We covered the different areas of the brain (all of the lobes) as well as the 'nature vs nurture' concept of psychology. He was able to recall the different parts and functions of the brain by the end of our session. He is going to study the concepts more before his test tomorrow.
