I am a retired computer consulting professional with excellent communication and presentation skills. Over 40 years of experience including international and multicultural interactions. I have tutored our children and their friends in math throughout their middle school and high school experience and help them maintain their "A" average. (read more)
...I have been a Chemistry teacher and mathematics teacher for more than 16 years. I have taught AP Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry, Physical Chemistry ACT( Math), SAT (Math) and General Chemistry to graduate and undergraduate students who are researchers right now. Tutoring chemistry is one of my favorite things in life because it's important. (read more)
...Most of my students just want to get a quick refresher before taking the exam, but those who need competitive scores for selective schools and scholarships regularly schedule several one-on-one sessions and work hard outside of lessons by going over the assignments I give them. This group of stu... (read more)
...While I completely feel the frustration of struggling with a new thing, I love changing people's minds. Subjects are skill sets just like any others, and it's ok to struggle while you become better at them! But given time and effort, there's few things more satisfying than watching a student become more confident. (read more)
...My technique for tutoring is to try to help people understand why things work the way they do. Often, people struggle with subjects when they try to memorize rather than understand the underlying ideas behind a subject. This makes the class get harder as the year goes on since topics typically stack on one another. (read more)