...Having a great deal of teaching experience, I welcome the opportunity to teach individuals how to play chess and how to become tournament-level players. After playing at the youth, middle school and high school levels, I have coached tennis for over 25 years. I have coached at the youth and middle school levels. (read more)
...These scores and accolades helped me to get accepted into a plethora of universities and ultimately earn a full-ride scholarship. I hope to combine my standardized test skills, tutoring experience, and college applications knowledge to boost students' scores, confidence, and overall potential wh... (read more)
...As a note, effective test prep takes time, so I recommend starting early. I warn my prospective students that the gains to be made with just a week or two of preparation will be very limited. In addition to tutoring several students in organic chemistry, I served as a graduate student instructor for the organic chemistry series at University of California, Berkeley. (read more)
...This can be frustrating. It is much more fun to see an individual student's exact need, in real time, and respond exactly to that need, not to some average. I have very often, if not most often, found that students who thought they could not understand course material, only could not understand the explanation that was given to this phantom composite character. (read more)
...I'm entering my third year as a Wyzant tutor (after 5 years at Chegg) and am loving the continued opportunities to help students succeed! I started my teaching "career" in the 6th grade, when a neighbor hired me to tutor her sons in math. As an undergraduate and graduate student, I tutored in a... (read more)