Award-Winning Biology Tutors serving Pawtucket, RI

I'm a recent PhD graduate in Bioengineering in the Boston area. My thesis involved nanoparticles and bacterial infections, but as a biomedical engineer I've had training in circuits, mechanics, some programming, chemistry and biology. Tutoring for me is a collaborative effort, following a problem-based learning with questions that will lead the student towards the answer they're looking for while providing a well-rounded understanding of why and how that answer works.

...age groups and cultural/academic backgrounds. While in high school, I volunteered to be a companion for young children with Cerebral Palsy. During my years at Rhodes College, I tutored adults in ESL and aided them in their job search and was a Teaching Assistant for fellow Anthropology majors. For the past three years, I was a Kindergarten teacher at an international, bilingual school in Dakar, Senegal and a private SAT/ESL/TOEFL and College Prep tutor for...

As someone who has endured multiple standardized tests and successfully completed high school and college, I understand the importance of tutors.

...and MPH program, actively practicing nurse with varied experience within the healthcare field. I received both my Bachelor and Masters degree in Boston, MA. I have previous experience tutoring various subjects including biology, nutrition, Spanish, graphic design and web graphics. I am able to connect with all my students because I understand what it is like to be in their shoes and am very patient helping to achieve positive outcomes from every session.

...school at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where I tutored student-athletes in a variety of subjects including Anatomy, Physiology, Exercise Physiology and Statistics. Personally, I found the tutoring experience to be very revealing. Students would come in night after night, in separate sessions, and ask me the same questions. I quickly learned that the professors were simply reading off slides; taking little time to explain difficult mechanisms and concepts. As such, few...

...that providing this service has never been more important, as students experience pandemic-related disruptions to their educations. As the founder and peer advisor to the UNH Zoological Society, I understand the common struggles that students have in STEM courses, particularly biology. I have experienced many of these frustrations myself and feel I have become a stronger student and teacher because of them. Additionally, as a high school spanish tutor, I saw the common obstacles that...

...working with students to see their full potential and experience real science within their world. Using Project and Place based learning, I engage students in scientific thought and exploration. During my tutoring sessions, I use technology and advanced science equipment to encourage students to collect and approach data in an interest catching way. Outside of school, I enjoys fishing, playing with my dogs, Joey and Belle, and spending time with my family.

...and tutor, I worked as a program associate for the National Audubon Society, Restore America's Estuaries, and the National Environmental Education Foundation in Washington, D.C. In college, I worked as both an undergraduate teaching assistant for the Biology department and a natural history museum docent. My favorite subject to tutor is Precalculus, as it is the course that blends together geometry, algebra, and trigonometry. It is a challenging course, but that makes it the most...

...with an early focus on Neuroscience and Behavior, and I will be attending Medical School in the fall. I am most looking forward to tutoring in English/Literature/Writing, and Biology/Anatomy, as these are the areas that I excelled at most throughout my own education. Education is something that can never be taken from you, and as such I think it's an incredibly valuable opportunity and investment. In my spare time, I like to read, dance, knit...

...when I taught a nutrition class to children in their early teens, teaching them the basics of nutrition, such as picking healthy ingredients and avoiding processed foods. Since then, I have been a part-time tutor, and I look forward to meeting lots of new students through Varsity Tutors! As a current college student, I have taken many of the classes I tutor very recently, and am still actively involved in learning, especially in science classes....

...I believe, someone can have. I have taught briefly at the high school level and assisted at the graduate level, and I have found that I am skilled at adjusting and catering my teaching abilities to students with different past experiences that require different ways of learning. I am currently a practicing biostatistician and a PhD student in biostatistics at the University of Massachusetts, at Amherst. I am excited about the opportunity to help others...

...with a B.S. in Human Physiology and a minor in Spanish. I have spent the last several years working in healthcare and preparing for medical school, which I will be attending this fall! I am a lifelong learner and aim to work with you to find the techniques and approaches that will make a topic "click" for you! I am most passionate about the life sciences (Anatomy, Biology, etc) and English. I can't wait to...

...strong understanding of a subject so that they can use that knowledge flexibly for critical thinking and problem-solving. My overall philosophy is to guide clients towards forming their own understanding and finding strategies that work for their own individual learning style. I am not prescriptive in my approach, but rather present potential strategies and tools, and then figure out what works best for the client. I have a friendly, easy-going, flexible and direct teaching style....

...for the introductory psychology course, and I have tutored English to students of all ages, mostly high school students. I tutor English, Biology, and Psychology (with a possibility of tutoring SAT Critical Reading and Writing). I am very passionate about biology, and for me, biology is the most fun to tutor. However, because I take many science courses at school, it is especially nice to tutor non-science courses such as English and psychology, subjects that...

...with students in a Red Cross "survival skills" ESL program and I have worked with middle-school, high-school, and college students who needed help with English, Reading Comprehension, Writing, and ESL skills. I see myself as a "professional explainer." My undergraduate degree is a Bachelor of Arts from Goddard College with a concentration in biology. I also hold a Master of Science from Boston University in Communications with a concentration in science and technology. In this...

My name is Andrew, and I am a Junior Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, and Psychology double major in the Commonwealth Honors College. I also work as an EMT at UMass, and for fun, I help run a podcast called A Little About A Lot.

...the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research. My current project is focused on developing immunotherapies to treat early stage tumors. Both in the classroom and in lab, I have always been more than willing to help others with their assignments or troubleshooting an equipment problem. On top of my scientific pursuits, I have immersed myself in the worlds of classical Latin and Spanish. The beauty of language and its power are so wonderful. I am...

...fun to be in a Northern town with 3 beaches and more double rainbows than I have seen anywhere since! My undergraduate degree was in England at a student village about 30 minutes West of London. It boasted the best student nights in the UK, though to whether that is true on not I plead the fifth. I earned my Master's in Pharmacy here and graduated with a Magma cum laude. Dissertation in neuro-regeneration. My...

...really enjoyed building relationships with my students. I was also a tutor throughout all four years of college. My freshman and sophomore years I was a math tutor, helping out primarily with statistics. I would tutor students individually, attend extra classes to have up-to-date notes, and hold exam review sessions. Once I had more classes under my belt, I became a tutor for my college's science center during my junior and senior years. I was...

I tutor English (writing, literature), SAT prep, pre-algebra, and algebra. I am a current undergraduate sophomore at Harvard College majoring in biology. I also have some previous tutoring experience and I enjoy working with students. I'm patient, I have high expectations for work, I am passionate about learning, and I am excited to share what I know.