D1 DAT Tutor at Penn Dental

Patricia B.

Hi, I'm Patricia and I am an incoming first year dental student at the University of Pennsylvania. I went to the University of Pittsburgh and majored in Psychology with a minor in Chemistry. I first got exposed to teaching while serving as an Undergraduate Teaching Assistant (UTA) for General Chemistry 2 in my spring semester Sophomore year. Since then, I have been a UTA for Foundations of Biology 1 and Organic Chemistry 1 where I generally worked one on one in a classroom setting.

My love for teaching and serving as a mentor for my peers inspired me to get trained and work as a tutor at Pitt. I am a certified Level 2 CRLA (College Reading and Learning Association) tutor and have now been tutoring for about 2 years now and I am very passionate about what I do. My favorite parts of tutoring are connecting with students and helping them achieve their goals. In college, I tutored students one on one and in small group settings for Foundations of Biology 1 and 2, Organic Chemistry 2, and Biochemistry. I now tutor specifically for the DAT and more generally, the science subjects (Bio, Chem, Organic Chemistry). I have tutored around 250 hours and excited to continue to do more!

Some of my tutoring methods include scaffolding, meaning I believe that tutoring is a team approach where I help the student reach a common goal. I am not here to lecture, but help students work through their thought process through follow up questions and probing.

Feel free to reach out for any additional questions or to schedule a lesson, I am here to help!