...If you’re curious about a subject, I’d be happy to share my knowledge of it. However, I have often found that subject-specific tutoring is not what secondary students need the most. Executive functioning skills such as time management, organization, and communication, can often be bigger barriers to academic success than anything else. (read more)
...I can also give real world practical advice as we go through the software. A lot of accounting and finance sometimes seems complicated. I encourage students to reach out if they need a guiding hand to help them through it, keep it simple, and help them relate to it.Vocabulary comes natural to me, I think from reading a number of books as a kid. (read more)
...This includes explaining Sterling numbers, Bell numbers and Hasse diagrams. I also love graph theory and can explain paths, walks, trails, cycles, circuits and more as we work together to come up with proofs. I worked for 10 years writing FORTRAN programs for doing structural analysis of pipe supports in power plants. (read more)
I'm a seasoned veteran professor of Creative Writing, Literature, Composition and Critical Thinking, and Big History. I've taught every course in the composition track at several community colleges and universities, and have taught everything from basic skills composition to graduate level Creative... (read more)
...I have an undergraduate degree in Environmental Science from The Evergreen State College where I developed a strong skillset in core biology, chemistry, and calculus as well as ecology, botany, taxonomy and GIS. After college, I worked in ecological restoration and vegetation management where I ... (read more)