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MORGAN G.

Morgan G. - Life Sciences, Arts & Letters -

Seattle, WA (98122)

Travel Radius 12 miles
Hourly Fee $50.00
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Hi, Morgan here -
I would like to help you with your studies!

My own studies have been focused on physiology and molecular biology: I earned my Ph.D. in developmental biology in 2001 at the University of Texas, and have since been doing research at the U. of Oregon in genetics and cell biology.

Throughout almost all of grad school I was a teaching assistant, leading discussion groups for various undergraduate biology courses. More recently, I have twice taught introductory biology courses for non-science majors (at the UO and Northwest Christian University). Each time I put a good deal of effort into designing and teaching the course, and each time enjoyed it immensely.

I love teaching. What I like best is to spark your interest in whatever problem or puzzle confronts you - and then lead you to the understanding that lets you solve it.

Fortune has blessed me with wonderful teachers, and with a lot of practice I've become pretty good at what I do. I look forward to sharing what I have learned.

MORGAN's Subjects

Math:
  • ACT Math,
  • prealgebra,
  • SAT math
Science:
Music:
Art:
English:
  • ACT English,
  • English,
  • ESL/ESOL,
  • grammar,
  • reading,
  • SAT reading,
  • SAT writing,
  • TOEFL,
  • vocabulary,
  • writing
Test Preparation:
  • ACT English,
  • ACT Math,
  • ACT Science,
  • GED,
  • GMAT,
  • GRE,
  • ISEE,
  • MCAT,
  • SAT math,
  • SAT reading,
  • SAT writing,
  • TOEFL
Computer:
  • Adobe Photoshop
Language:
  • ESL/ESOL,
  • Spanish,
  • TOEFL
Elementary Education:
  • elementary math,
  • elementary science,
  • grammar,
  • reading,
  • study skills,
  • vocabulary
Business:
  • GMAT,
  • GRE
Sports/Recreation:
  • martial arts
Corporate Training:
  • ESL/ESOL,
  • GMAT,
  • grammar,
  • Spanish
Homeschool:

Biology

I love biology, and love teaching it at any level - preschool through grad school. My aim is to focus on building deep understanding of essential concepts -- and when we need to learn a lot of details, I work with you to create an intuitive system for understanding their connections. It really all makes sense! (If the textbook material seems too complex to grasp, it is simply not being presented well.)

I help you make sense of it all, and enjoy the learning process - understanding... Read More

Guitar

I've been playing guitar since around 1984. I play rock and roll...folk/pop, whatever you want to call it. I strum and sing. For most songs, I use only three, four, or five chords. I can teach you those chords and several dozen more that you'll rarely need. I can help you understand the relationships of the chords that sound good together. We can figure out how to play your favorite songs. I will not teach you anything very fancy, because I don't do any fancy stuff. I can show you a couple of... Read More

Study Skills

I think I can help anyone who wants to improve their study skills. I have done a lot of studying myself, of course, on the way to a Ph.D. and beyond. I know a few tricks that help me study. The first thing to make sure of is that you are getting interested in the material. Interest makes it much easier! If distraction is an issue, we deal with that. Then you can set to work translating the book into the language of your soul - this makes it much easier to go back and re-read.

Drawing

I am an artist by vocation. In the course of doing thousands of drawings since 1974, I've become pretty good at it. I think I can teach anyone to draw, if they have the desire. In my usual capacity as a biology tutor, I make extensive use of graphical aids, and my students find this very helpful - almost all of us are strongly visual thinkers. For creating new images, the trick is just to make the pen obey the will! My ideas about teaching drawing are inspired mainly by Nicolaides (see his book... Read More

Genetics

I'm well qualified to teach genetics, as I have worked for years as a geneticist! Some of my work is published in two 2007 articles in the Journal of Cell Biology: in these studies I used classical genetics and reverse genetics (RNAi) to investigate cell morphogenesis in early embryos of the nematode C. elegans.

Microbiology

Microbiology is pretty easy and fun for me. As an academic researcher I have worked with microbes a good deal (tame ones, like phage T4, E. coli, and S. cerevisiae, but I guess this is worth something). As a lover of biology I enjoy all critters, most of which are small and come under the purview of microbiology. I'm not an expert on any of these microbes, or on anything like metabolic diversity of prokaryotes, but I enjoy learning about these things, and I learn in order to teach.

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