Princeton PhD Student, Adjunct Professor of World History

Tomiko B.

I have been teaching World History at the undergraduate level for about 7 years. I have 8 years of experience scoring the World History AP Exam in Scoring Leadership and I am a Chief Scoring Leader for the STAAR Exam. I score for many other programs and I am confident that I know how to teach to the specifications of each test I assist with scoring.

I am working on my PhD at Princeton University (I am currently ABD) and before that, I attended Spelman College and Oxford University.

I love teaching and tutoring for many reasons. First, I firmly believe that education and schooling are not the same thing, and in respecting that distinction I believe I have as much to learn from the process of tutoring/teaching as I have to teach those in my charge. Second, I recognise that the education system in the United States of America was once one of the strongest in the world, but now, students may not always be able to rely on a system that does not funnel enough funding and care into each student. Additionally, students with special needs or learning methods that do not adhere to the 100-plus-year learning system we still employ in America are often underserved. I have found that most students learn by having conversations that encourage thinking of historical actors as vibrant and important. In this way, I love tutoring and teaching because it makes a difference in both my life and the lives of students.

If all social scientists and experts agree that we are currently living through what will one day be known as the Second Civil Rights Movement, I believe that it is our duty to work together to ensure that we are as knowledgeable as possible about multiple perspectives, arguments and positions as we lay the foundation for social progress in our ever-modernizing world.

I am working on a PhD in History at Princeton University and I am an Adjunct Professor of history at Methodist University. Both positions are writing-intensive. As a student myself, I understand the hard work involved in learning to write and ed