Vi: Simi Valley tutor
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I love my field and as a Psychologist I take the opportunity to help others and try to help myself keep sane as well. I am a life long learner and I love photography, dancing, and living my life to the fullest extent possible without breaking!
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Undergraduate Degree: Mount carmael College - Bachelors, Psychology
Graduate Degree: Saint Louis University-Main Campus - PHD, Psychology
My hobbies are dancing, photography, cooking, traveling, reading books, and meeting new people and living my life to the fullest.
- Applied Mathematics
- CLEP Prep
- CLEP Introductory Psychology
- Clinical Psychology
- College English
- English
- EPPP - Examination for Professional Practice in Psychology
- Essay Editing
- Executive Functioning
- Graduate Test Prep
- GRE
- GRE Subject Test in Psychology
- GRE Subject Tests
- IB Psychology
- Learning Differences
- Math
- Math Substitute
- Microsoft Office
- Neurobiology
- Other
- Productivity
- Professional Certifications
- Psychology
- Public Speaking
- Social Sciences
- Social Work
- Sociologies
- Sociology
- Statistics Graduate Level
- Study Skills
- Study Skills and Organization
- Substitute
- Test Prep
- Writing
What is your teaching philosophy?
Teaching is an opportunity to engage a learner who wants to obtain the knowledge and skills that I have and who needs to accomplish their goal.
What might you do in a typical first session with a student?
Get to know the student and let them get to know me as well. Try to create a common ground.
How can you help a student become an independent learner?
Use graduated guidance. Initially, they may need a lot of help learning a new concept. As we work with several examples, the student may come upon their own. That is a good sign that they are getting independent.
How would you help a student stay motivated?
Keep on the topic and keep them engaged at all times with questions, self-reflection, and doing something. Providing feedback and keeping myself energized also helps.
If a student has difficulty learning a skill or concept, what would you do?
Breaking it down to meaningful, smaller tasks, and then chaining it together and applying the concepts as we move forward. Practice a lot initially.