Hi, I am Laura!
I'm a science teacher who has 10+ years classroom experience. I taught high school Biology, Chemistry, and Physics at Oakwood School (a private high school) for ten years. In the last six of those years, I taught AP Chemistry the majority of my students earned a 5, and most of The rest were 4's, with a class average well above 4.5
I also taught biology and physics for most of my years at Oakwood and elsewhere, and have for multiple years been tutoring Biology, Chemistry, and Physics at all levels from regular/college prep/honors to AP (and IB for Chemistry)
Previously at Santa Barbara (working for CLAS, the Campus Learning Assistance Services at UCSB) I ran the Organic Chemistry and Biology tutorial groups. And I taught the test prep classes for the MCAT (medical school admissions test) and GMAT (business school test) for a well known test prep company.
Most recently, I have been tutoring Chemistry, Physics, and Biology at all levels from regular to honors to AP (including AP Physics C with calculus) for the past eight years.
Some of my credentials include: graduating Phi Beta Kappa (near the top of my class) from UC Berkeley with a BA in Molecular Biology, being a National Merit Scholar, scoring in the 99.9th percentile on the MCAT, and also being offered a Regents scholarship to UC Irvine Medical school (which I had to turn down for personal reasons.)
I have gotten good at explaining topics in simple ways that anyone can understand, and I'm happy to switch it up to see what works best for you. I like to see people improve their confidence in topics and gain an true understanding of the material. I often have students raising their score to levels that they had not thought they were capable of. I’ve taken students from flunking to getting the top score in their class on a test.
I enjoy working with students, and am happy to write practice questions, or do whatever is necessary to increase a student’s understanding of the material. It is very gratifying to me to have students do we