Experience Summary
After finishing my first degree at the University of Florida, I moved to the South Pacific to work and travel New Zealand and Australia. Upon my return, I began work as a ski instructor, which included many of the same responsibilities as a classroom teacher or tutor. I was educating children to learn a skill that required patience, professionalism, and the ability to explain the same thing in a variety of ways. When the snow melted, I moved to Vermont and worked as a crew leader for a conservation corps. I led groups of young people for 5 week adventures to do conservation work and live in remote wilderness areas. My position also required me to daily facilitate and lead discussions regarding environmental education. I have years of experience working with children as a camp counselor and I have participated in a mentoring program to tutor troubled youth while attending UF. Most recently, I was working teaching English in Korea. I prepared lesson plans, exams, and projects, participated in field trips, wrote plays, and taught Asian children how to speak English.
Teaching Style
My teaching style requires the student to utilize their own opinions and brainpower. I have learned that the best way to really understand something is to figure it out for yourself. As a teacher/tutor, I feel it is important to guide the student to figure out the solution, rather than show them how to do everything step by step. I am also very easy to talk to and I make myself open and available to my students. I can read people very well, and I know when to slow down, and when to move on. I think one of the most important qualities a tutor can have is to be able to explain how the same thing works in more than one way. Every student learns differently, and while one student might understand how to do a math problem by simply looking at the equations, another student might understand better with diagrams. I have the ability to reiterate a solution through many vectors.