The IB Psychology curriculum asks students to toggle between biological, cognitive, and sociocultural levels of analysis — often within a single essay. Emerson's double major in psychology and biology at the University of Chicago gives him genuine cross-disciplinary fluency, so he can explain how a ...

Having studied education policy at Harvard's Graduate School of Education, Yu brings a sharp understanding of how curricula are designed — which means she can decode exactly what IB Psychology examiners expect when they use command terms like 'evaluate' or 'contrast.' She teaches students to build e...

IB Psychology's essays live or die on one thing: whether students can use specific studies as evidence rather than vague generalizations about behavior. Olivia teaches a method for learning key studies — researcher, method, findings, evaluation — so they become usable tools in any essay prompt. She ...

Rachel's public health and environmental health sciences training gave her strong research methodology chops — designing studies, interpreting data, and evaluating limitations — which maps directly onto IB Psychology's demand that students critically assess studies like Milgram or Loftus rather than...

Kaylah studied Behavioral and Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Florida, which means she doesn't just teach IB Psychology concepts like schema theory or the biological approach — she's actually worked with them in research settings. She breaks down the IB exam's Paper 1 and Paper 2 structu...

The trickiest part of IB Psychology isn't memorizing studies — it's learning to evaluate them critically and weave them into command-term essays that actually answer the prompt. Lindsay treats each essay like a scientific argument: claim, evidence, limitation, conclusion. Her science training at the...

Succeeding in IB Psychology means doing two things well: understanding the studies and writing about them in a way that earns marks. Adriana tackles both — her biochemistry background at Rice makes the biological approach intuitive, and her experience with IB essay structures across multiple subject...

Yan's Master's in Curriculum and Instruction means she knows how to reverse-engineer what IB examiners actually want — breaking down command terms and rubric criteria so students stop writing generic summaries and start earning marks. Her teaching background spans math, science, and language arts, w...

Christine is pursuing her B.S. in Psychology at Northwestern while studying learning sciences — which means IB Psychology concepts like cognitive processes, research methodology, and abnormal behavior aren't abstract textbook topics for her but material she's actively engaging with at the university...

Davien's Columbia psychology degree means he didn't just read about Freud and Milgram in a textbook — he studied the original research, debated its limitations, and learned to build arguments around it, which is exactly what IB Psychology examiners want in ERQs and SAQs. His MFA-level writing chops ...