48 Portola ASVAB Tutors

...This allows me to observe the individual student's learning style and tailor my teaching accordingly. I call myself a geek because I have so much passion for science and math. In fact, many of my students have called my enthusiasm infectious! I have both my undergraduate (Geography, 1993) and graduate (Microbiology, 2001) degrees from UC Berkeley,... read more

...After school play dates at our house always started with them doing their homework after a nutritious snack. This always surprised the playmates' parents, they could not believe that the homework was finished or at least halfway done when they came to pick up their children. I helped them to learn the material by turning it into some kind of game... read more

..., students need to have mastered the graphical properties of linear functions before working on quadratic ones (hyperbolas, ellipses, parabolas). Since so many homework and exam problems in trig involve multiples of 30 and 45 degrees, I show all my students how to derive all the trig functions for those angles based on only two facts that need to... read more

...When I returned to school, the work I did while pursuing my Masters in Philosophy built the skills required in my earning my undergraduate degree, specifically by improving my ability to read critically and write effectively. On my own time, I am an enthusiastic reader, and enjoy sharing this enthusiasm with others. As a graduate student in San... read more

...For particularly difficult concepts, I like break it down into little steps and use a simplified version of problem set, then slowly turn up the difficulty and throw in real world applications and variables. I have hundreds of hours volunteering with children's organizations in addition to tutoring. I'm very honest and tactile with my feedback,... read more