Award-Winning Chemistry Tutors in Thousand Oaks, CA

...school. I have been a chemistry and math tutor since my freshman year in college (4.5 years ago), and gained experience in tutoring physics and biology in the past 2 years. To me, learning is not a duty; it is having fun. I started to truly enjoy learning about the Sciences, specially chemistry, after I...

...for my B.S. in Materials Engineering at UCLA. I continued my education at UCLA to get my M.S. in the same field. Over the course of my studies, I spent summers teaching and tutoring high school students in India. During my Masters education, I acted as a mentor to incoming freshmen. I helped the students...

...person with a strong passion to elevate a child of any age to his/her highest potential. I believe that to become an excellent teacher you must have a desire to assist children in the learning process and this is one quality which I feel I definitely possess utilizing learning styles with a mindful approach.... My teaching philosophy is a myriad of best practices supported by human learning theories of behaviorism, cognitivism, and constructivism. Study skills including organization, time management and learning styles are consistently utilized with students. Moreover, I use positive reinforcement to enhance learning. Bloom's taxonomy for higher order thinking skills questioning is a constant as I teach for higher order thinking and problem solving. Every student can learn to his/her full potential, regardless of age or 'disability.'

...Los Angeles. I received a Bachelor's of Science in Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics and a Bachelor's of Arts in Psychology. Throughout college, I helped tutor a variety of students in science classes I had previously taken. I enjoy being able to help others learn and passing on what I know to others. Students in...

...are difficult to grasp directly but are simple to grasp by analogy. I work with my students so that they develop an internal sense that enables them to create their own methods for understanding unfamiliar concepts. With these skills, my students are able to gain a greater appreciation for the subject and realize more of...

...since graduating from high school, as it has helped throughout my studies to master the topics and stay fresh. I have worked with students in high school to senior undergraduates in math and sciences. I have varied teaching experience as a tutor for math and science and as a teaching assistant at Johns Hopkins University....

...had also the incredible gift of having professors that taught me truly how to learn. While critical and analytical thinking are trite buzzwords surrounding all academia, it takes a fundamental shift in mindset to embody these skills. My job is to guide my students towards this ability to extract knowledge and autonomy in learning in...

...I ever regard teaching as "work." I enjoy helping students and find it rewarding when a student learns a new concept. From my experience, I know it is important for an instructor to be able to put himself in the student's shoes, know the academic history of the student, the concepts they may have recently...

...Los Angeles where I received my degree in Chemical Engineering. Prior to my graduate education, I received my B.S. in Chemical Engineering with a minor in Bioengineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. I was a Graduate Student Mentor at the UCLA Undergraduate Center in which I led workshops and classes for undergraduate students...

...Chemistry, Earth Science, Environmental Science, and Genetics. Tutoring science interests me because I love to learn about how everything around us works! I believe that learning is more that memorizing material, you have to be able to relate to it. Because of this I believe that learning can be fun and easy if the information...