About Me

I'm a recent PhD student at the University of Pennsylvania Biology Department and I have a Bachelor of Science from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver with a major in geology and a minor in biology. I've taught in the classroom setting to both lab and lecture classes as well as one on one teaching, the latter of which is my more preferred method. I was quick to discover during my time at Penn that teaching was important to me and that I wanted to continue teaching after I left. I loved teaching biology and statistics courses and helping students prepare for tests was particularly innervating. My teaching philosophy is centered around intuitive thought and explanation. Setting up a simple and logical path for a student to follow will not only get them to the correct answer to a problem themselves, but, more importantly, it will aid that student's memory on the topic far better than being told the correct answer will. Deeper understanding will always beat memorization. I have found this holds true for subject classes as well as for standardized test preparation.

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