Experience Summary
While attaining my bachelors at Columbia University and my doctorate at the University of Chicago, I have had many opportunities to tutor and instruct students on a broad range of subjects including math, biology, philosophy, and literature. In college, I was a peer mentor during the school year helping students grasp concepts and ideas from classes that I had already taken and for 2 summers I was an academic councilor at Columbia for a 4 week intensive program to help prepare entering freshman for an Ivy league education.
During graduate school I was a TA for multiple developmental biology classes where I had to give lectures grade tests and assignments. I also worked with students one-on-one to help them understand the class material.
Teaching Style
To be able to help students reach their goals, I have based my teaching philosophy on 3 responsibilities that I believe an educator has to their students:
1. An educator is responsible not to just instruct a student on a subject, but to teach them how to critically analyze a problem and provide them with the tools to identify solutions to future questions.
2. An educator should provide an open environment to work in allowing students to flourish.
3. An educator should be an advocate for the student.
I focus my time with students to help them identify key information in their subject of interest and how to better retain it. I also believe in making the subject interesting to them, which will foster a better enjoyment of the subject.