...Although I am new to Wyzant, I know the value of individual attention, and I want to help you succeed. My passion is mathematics and physics and spreading the knowledge to others is something I enjoy dearly. Many of my students have not only raised the grade in the courses they were tutored in, but gone on to become experts themselves. (read more)
As I tell all my students, please call me Alison, not Dr. Wood. I've been an engineering professor for 8 years and have 10 years of tutoring experience before that. (read more)
...With over two and a half years of teaching experience in middle school classrooms, I have successfully worked with students across all three grade levels. I have also provided targeted assistance to small groups of up to four students, delivering intensive tutoring on a consistent basis. Additi... (read more)
...During my teaching career have taken continuing education in systematic, evidenced based methods for vocabulary including (but not limited to): word consciousness strategies, use of word study strategies, use of word parts (prefix, suffix, root), context clues, explicit instruction of vocabulary,... (read more)