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Sina S.

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Upon completing my studies, I opted to become a credentialed teacher. The following fall semester, I began teaching 3rd grade math and science at Cragmont Elementary School. After several stints here and there, I've had the lovely fortune of teaching toddlers to seniors amidst a plethora of subjects, whether it be SAT test support, literature for English-as-a-second-language folks, post-calculus theoretical physics, or even neuroscience-psychology to namedrop a few.

With around 12 years of...

Upon completing my studies, I opted to become a credentialed teacher. The following fall semester, I began teaching 3rd grade math and science at Cragmont Elementary School. After several stints here and there, I've had the lovely fortune of teaching toddlers to seniors amidst a plethora of subjects, whether it be SAT test support, literature for English-as-a-second-language folks, post-calculus theoretical physics, or even neuroscience-psychology to namedrop a few.

With around 12 years of tutoring under my tenure, which includes students with dyslexia, dysgraphia and attention-deficiencies, I am adamant to support others with foundations—in grasping fundamentals—and moving forward from there through goal-oriented insights. I enjoy providing my students with a "toolkit" of skills sets just so they can be self-sustainable in the long-haul.

I have a fervent relationship with mathematics. You see, there was hardly another subject that I enjoyed as much as pre-algebra whilst growing up. This transcended further onwards through higher education and my career, so much so that even prior to completion of an off-topic doctorate, I gained my math teaching credentials for both single-subject level and K-6 tiers.

Please don't hesitate to touch-base; I'm eager to assist and make the difficult stuff—math or not—a little easier, mostly because I know what the buildup of that kind of pressure is like and how to manage it in a streamlined fashion.

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Education

University of California, Berkeley
Computer Science
Stanford University
Masters
Harvard University
PhD
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Algebra 1

Algebra 1

It’s likely been around 10 years of my tenure teaching algebra. Having gone through algorithm optimization theory and stochastic modeling, algebra was a cornerstone foundation of it all.
Algebra 2

Algebra 2

It’s likely been around 10 years of my tenure teaching algebra. Having gone through algorithm optimization theory and stochastic modeling, algebra was a cornerstone foundation of it all.
American History

American History

US History is a subject all about accordance of events and memorizing through chronological perspectives. I used this methodology to my advantage in order to ease the understanding and compilation of contents from the subject into photographic memory format.
Common Core

Common Core

It’s likely been around 10 years of my tenure teaching common core. I began my scholastic tenure halfway through middle school in the United States and quickly came to the realization that common core standards required a different approach than my previous experiences as a young student. Over the course of the coming years, I would go on to master the challenges of common core down to a science and help others get through much the same path.
Computer Engineering

Computer Engineering

I worked as director of quality assurance in spatial queries at Google, before joining General Assembly as a software architect. My specialties include Python, Java and multidimensional arrays.
Cooking

Cooking

I had a fervent appreciation for my mother’s healthy cooking, to the point where my appreciation for the process—rather than the food itself—led me to the Culinary Institute of America, from which I transferred over to Le Cordon Bleu Paris in France, hailed by most chefs as the world’s benchmark cooking school. After a few stints here and there, I worked my way to the head chef position to design and procreate recipes, deploying hearty and delicately tasty meals to wow people’s tastebuds whilst keeping an organic and health-oriented regimen.
Elementary (K-6th)

Elementary (K-6th)

Upon the completion of my single-subject and multi-subject teaching credentials, I yearned to start teaching elementary school and help alleviate the different mindsets as well as obvious gap between classroom teacher and students. The discrepancy formulates conflicts of interest down-the-line, so the best approach was to empathize with children and care one-on-one. Whilst this may be time-consuming, especially during the tenure of teaching 3rd grade math and science, it proved to be vital to the psychological well-being of the teacher-student relationship, to such an extent that the kids could look in my eyes and be up-front and honest with me about everything from understanding concepts in homework to being able to accept unpleasant test scores for improvement.
Elementary Math

Elementary Math

Former elementary and middle school teacher with 3 months of introductory apprenticeship and 7 years of instruction in classrooms. Currently an adjunct professor of symbolic systems with doctorate in optimization theoretical research.
English

English

English Literature, Writing / Compositional Language Arts instructor with California K-12 multi-subject teaching credentials and 3 years of school teaching experience.
ESL/ESOL

ESL/ESOL

Former ESL Instructor for 3 quarters. I learned English as my fourth language and have since reached a fluent understanding of complex literature.
Geometry

Geometry

I have taught a total of 5 semesters of geometry at 2 high schools and Santa Monica College.
Handwriting

Handwriting

California Teacher’s credentials (multi-subject) and school teacher for 8 years.
HTML

HTML

I created websites for companies and enthusiasts back in the late 1990s until the mid-2000s. I then became a startup veteran over the course of 4 new software businesses and even attained my Master’s in Symbolic Systems, which is a branch of computer science related with automated algorithms and artificial intelligence + machine learning.
Photography

Photography

After completing five photography and videography courses, I became fascinated with the art of capturing moments. This would either allow breadth of light and shadow to seamlessly (or abruptly) merge with any inherent coloration, focus pop, bokeh, or angular depiction. I take pride in my post-processing skills using various applications and softwares to tell a story. Much of my work can be seen on websites across the web, ranging from technology startups and pre-COVID get-togethers all the way to automotive manufacturers and exercising workouts.
Prealgebra

Prealgebra

I instructed general mathematics and prealgebra as a 6th- and 7th-grade teacher at a local Middle School.
Precalculus

Precalculus

MS in Symbolic Systems - Mathematical Algorithms and Network Mapping
Elementary Science
Microsoft Word
Spelling

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