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I am a health and behavior researcher and educator. I love teaching, public health, and psychology! I have taught many subjects including statistics and epidemiology to students of all backgrounds. I love helping people, and meeting them where they are in terms of knowledge, understanding, and comfort. Each person has strengths, and they can be applied to almost any subject. The challenge for tutors is to help connect each students' strengths with the subject matter.
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...from the University of South Florida. While I am able to tutor a broad range of subjects in both math and science, I am most passionate about teaching any of the medical sciences (anatomy, physiology, pathology, pharmacology, internal medicine, pediatric medicine, etc.), research and research-related subjects (epidemiology, statistics, etc.), and biological sciences at all educational levels. I also feel confident in my abilities to teach math and science, as it relates to standardized test preparation...
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...kids and teens with busy schedules. She attended Wright State University, where she graduated cum laude with an honors BA in biological sciences and a certificate in African American and womens gender studies and earned a doctorate of medicine and a master's of public health from Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine. She has been honored with more than 20 scholarships and awards. Christen has a special interest in education. Her 10 years of...
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...past decade in non-profit and commercial industry give me a unique perspective in applying the principles of public health, epidemiology, and biostatistics in the real world. I enjoy helping others understand the foundations of these and related scientific concepts. In my free time, I enjoy hanging out with my husband and my 10 year old, volunteering for several local non-profit organizations, jogging, and assisting to teach Irish dance to 4-12 year olds.
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...also assisting with research in a renown research organization. I have started a PhD in Public Health now at the Aga Khan University. I have a great fund of medical knowledge and knowledge related to statistics, research and public health. I want to share that knowledge with my students. I want to build a teaching career and varsity tutors seems like a nice platform to start from. I have family and friends in Kansas City,...
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The student and I continued reviewing the math section in her practice ACT prep book. She was able to answer some of the questions on her own, but did need refreshing on some math concepts. She mentioned that she wanted to review rational expressions/equations and square roots. We also reviewed some geometry (properties of triangles). We also spent 1/2 hr. on English review. We reviewed subject/verb agreement, possessive nouns/pronouns, and word choice questions. Overall, she did very well.
In today's session, I went over 30-60-90 triangles and 45-45-90 triangles. I then helped the student work through his homework assignment. Although he did not understand what to do at the beginning of the session, he had a much better understanding of the topics by the end of our meeting. I looked over his last Chemistry test, and we briefly went over the questions that he answered incorrectly. Progress was good overall.
Examined the Reading section of the ACT today. Student's achievement has been inconsistent on past tests and diagnostics; scores very well when she finishes the test, but sometimes has trouble completing the section. Her reading speed and comprehension are excellent, so we focused mostly on test mechanics: how to prioritize each passage to maximize time for examination, and how to attack each individual question to rely on context and logic. I saw very good progress, and will move on to deconstructing the Science section in our next meeting.
Today I actually worked with Student 1and Student 2 as well as Student 3. Student 2 had a review packet of proofs that she wanted to work through. She's getting better at them, though on some she will still get stuck with how to start it. Student 3 had his calculus review, and had a few derivatives that he was getting stuck on due to multiple parts of chain rule and product rule, which I helped him work through. Then Student 1 just had a few questions over the triangle inequality unit, and then we worked through a few problems in her review packet, which she seemed really comfortable with.
The student and I went over the harder math problems together. She is very good at math, but there are some concepts that she has not covered in school that I wanted to make sure she was comfortable with. We spend a lot of time learning new concepts that are mainly seen in trigonometry. We also went over English passages and plan to cover science and writing tomorrow.
Went over Lewis dot structures in chemistry, and the application of VSEPR theory to the structures. Used physical models to demonstrate VSEPR shapes. In math, covered complex solutions to quadratic equations.