Experience Summary
I am a practicing engineer on my way to a career change to the education field. I have been volunteering in high schools, tutoring, and attending teaching instruction workshops over the last several years. This fall (2010) I will begin teaching credential studies at either St. Mary's University (Moraga)or Santa Clara University (Santa Clara).
My subject areas are to be, initially at least, math and physics. I taught some math lessons this spring at a San Jose High School and have been tutoring in calculus and statistics to high school students.
Teaching Style
I have an assignment to complete over the summer regarding a teaching commitment I made at a recent teaching 'camp' I attended in southern California. My objective is to provide real world, actual situation examples of algebra, geometry, and calculus problems. I am doing this so that in addition to the problem solving and critical thinking skills acquired in learning mathematics topics students will be able to see the actual relevance of the study area. This spring I used the example of the oil leak in the gulf to illustrate volume and area ideas to beginning geometry students. In the algebra class at the same school I used compound interest rate calculations as a vehicle to understand exponents and the distributive property.