I'm Kylee! I am a current undergraduate for Human Biology at the University of California: San Diego, with a passion for teaching. I love answering questions and engaging with students, as well as getting to see that "aha!" moment when a student finally understands a topic. I have been teaching and tutoring for more than four years now. I began my teaching career as preschool teacher in a classroom, and continued this experience by teaching for an engineering-oriented summer camp. I’ve...
I'm Kylee! I am a current undergraduate for Human Biology at the University of California: San Diego, with a passion for teaching. I love answering questions and engaging with students, as well as getting to see that "aha!" moment when a student finally understands a topic. I have been teaching and tutoring for more than four years now. I began my teaching career as preschool teacher in a classroom, and continued this experience by teaching for an engineering-oriented summer camp. I’ve recently transitioned into the private tutoring space where I now tutor students one-on-one from ages 5-30 years old, and have just finished working as an instructional assistant for an upper-level college physiology class.
I know that personally, I respond best to teachers who are willing to answer many questions and are open to engagement, who focus on the reasoning behind the material and strategies of approaching challenges, not just memorizing terms. With multiple years of experience, I prefer to teach in this mode: with high student interaction, and by approaching questions with step-by-step help personalized to where a student struggles most. Throughout my experiences, what I have found is the most helpful approach to tutoring is continuing to be patient, and incorporating new ideas with the old basis that students are coming to me with (even if they’re behind). I believe largely in the incorporation of ideas rather than addressing them as separate, especially in such an integrated field as physiology. Therefore, one of my most effective approaches is to diagram or draw out processes with my students in order to demonstrate some of the hardest concepts of physiology. I pride myself on not only building student understanding, but of building student confidence, which is essential to succeeding in class environments.
