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Daniel

Bachelors, Biological Sciences

Arizona State Universtiy

About Me

I graduated from Arizona State University with a degree in Biological Sciences in May 2015 and plan on going to Physician Assistant school in the next few years. While as an undergrad at ASU, I worked for the College of Letters and Sciences as a Writing Fellow, where I TA'd for online English 101 and 102 classes. Being an English TA while studying Biology might seem somewhat odd to people, but besides being interested in the sciences I have a passion for writing. I've written three novels of carious genres (thriller, murder mystery, and horror) and hope to get them published someday. My approach to tutoring is to help ensure that the student has a solid understanding of the fundamentals of what they're learning. While it may be possible to get through a class by memorizing seemingly disjointed facts, students will have a much easier time learning and remembering information if they understand why it's important in the first place, and how it relates to other things they've learned in the class or things they might know from their day to day lives.

Education & Certifications

Arizona State Universtiy

Bachelors, Biological Sciences

Q&A with Daniel

Things a student memorizes they will forget quickly. But things that they understand they will remember forever. When working on concepts the student is struggling with, I try to tie the concepts back either to concepts they've already previously learned in the class, or to things they may intuitively know from their lives. If they understand why something is the way it is, that makes it so much easier to remember. How can you help a student become an independent learner? The biggest thing a tutor or teacher can do for a student's academic career is to help the student learn how to learn. There are a variety of different tools a student can use to try to learn material, and some of them are more appropriate than others depending on the situation. For a student to become independent, they need to learn what these tools are, which ones they best respond to, and what situations they work best in.