Award-Winning SSAT Tutors serving Round Lake, IL

I am a music performance graduate student in bassoon at Northwestern University, seeking to utilize my skills and professional/academic experience to help those who might benefit from them. When I am not occupied with something else, I am likely practicing the bassoon!

...siblings and last semester I got the opportunity to become the Teacher Assistant of Financial Accounting and Economic Analysis of Capital Investments. As a TA, I tutored students on cash flow statements, financial statements, journal entries, annuities, bonds, mortgages, and more. I explained to students where numbers were coming from and helped them logically understand...

...your multiplication/division facts...so I would work on those topics if simplifying is difficult. For the younger kids, playing a game or two to break up the hour is always a great idea. Using visuals is great for any student of any age, particularly younger ones, so I will always draw/write things out, and encourage students...

Having been a tutor and teacher for almost 20 years, I enjoy working with all age groups and backgrounds. I focus on sciences and arts subjects as well as test prep. I am a medical doctor with MBA and MPH and enjoy tutoring as a second career.

...at Vanderbilt University, with a major in Engineering Science and a minor in Engineering Management. Over the past few years, I've worked with students from Kindergarten through 8th grade on STEM courses. I have additionally worked as a TA for a junior/senior high school physics class. I have always been very passionate about STEM courses...

...in multiple different styles and genres. I strongly believe in maintaining an open and free communication pathway between the student and myself when tutoring, not a limiting and authoritative one. I have experienced this in the past when I was being tutored, and I know it was not beneficial. We are all students learning new...

...of my favorite parts of classroom teaching: work one-on-one with a child. It is in the one-on one situation I am able to assess, individualize lessons and adapt as the need arises while teaching. My favorite areas are reading and writing as well as test preparation. I also enjoy meeting the student where he or...

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