...Understanding how our body works is exciting. Unfortunately to be able to understand and make connections a lot of material needs to be memorized. To make it easier I turn the concepts into stories. (read more)
I enjoy working with individual students and helping them with material that can sometimes seem less than exciting. The best reward is seeing the 'aha' moment when they understand the logic behind the material, rather than just memorizing steps. As a graduate student, I was awarded a 'teaching fellowship' for teaching excellence. (read more)
...I use the first session as an opportunity to register the students current level of understanding and adjust my teaching style accordingly. Typically, students to come prepared with types of problems they have questions about (including classwork, homework, and quizzes) and I demonstrate how I a... (read more)