"A love of learning drives my love for teaching! My teaching style focuses on being a facilitator, mentor, coach, and guide to stimulate an interactive learning environment. For a successful learning experience, the learner needs to be an active participant with the teacher providing instruction, guidance, and support. I strive to promote a positive learning experience, build rapport, stimulate learner enthusiasm, and achieve academic goals.

This approach has shown to be effective in increasing confidence, motivation, and independence. I have 20+ years of experience tutoring elementary through graduate school students in a variety of different subjects. I have had the pleasure of helping hundreds of students to achieve their academic goals while building confidence. I believe that it is important to customize the learning experience by adapting my teaching style to accommodate the student’s learning style to maximize effectiveness.

I have a BS in Psychology from Arizona State University and I have completed graduate coursework. My academic and teaching experience focuses on the natural, social, and health sciences along with statistics and essay writing including graduate level research papers. Plus, I enjoy teaching study skills and organization so the student feels more independent and confident in class and test preparation.

My favorite subjects to teach high school and undergraduate/graduate students are psychology, statistics, research methods, biology, chemistry, nutrition, and essay writing. I am proficient in numerous statistical analysis software programs along with Powerpoint, Excel, and Word.

Also, I enjoy teaching elementary and middle school students in reading comprehension, writing, math, and the sciences. I believe that this is the time to develop a strong foundation for future learning which will help sustain a high level of confidence, build self-esteem, and autonomy. I work to show this age group that learning can be fun by using a variety of different activities and resources so they" less...