"Hello, I’m Sarah! I’ve been tutoring since I was 12, and teaching middle school science for the last 8 years, including 4 years of being the Instructional Lead for STEM, and 2 years of coaching teaching candidates as a mentor teacher.

Through my time teaching I’ve learned that I need to ask questions, listen, and understand how my students are viewing the concepts we’re studying. I then support my students in articulating for themselves what makes sense, what is contradictory, and what is vague or disconnected in their understanding. Then, we can work together to make things make sense! I use a lot of visuals and physical objects/movements to make abstract ideas concrete. My experience with teaching and learning is that to understand, we need to relate new concepts to concepts we are already very familiar with…and the more robust connections we can make, the better we can model our new ideas and use them to make accurate predictions.

Educational background: I graduated from UC Berkeley summa cum laude with a degree in Molecular and Cellular Biology, and a Teaching Credential in Secondary Foundational Science and Biology.

I prefer in-person tutoring, and am happy to come to you! I’m looking forward to learning together :)" less...