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Hourly Fee
$50 Sessions are held via Zoom a and accompanied by a virtuual whiteboard session |
What happens during a session?
The structure of my tutoring sessions depends on your needs and I recognize that these may evolve or change based on how your learning progresses or the timing of assessments in your class. Early on, I try to gauge where you are in the class and how we can spend our time together most effectively. Below are some of my strategies and tools that I use in sessions
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The collaborative notebookDuring sessions, I encourage my students to work with me in a “smart” notebook. We interact in this notebook taking turns pushing arrows and writing explanations, notes about thought process, etc.
These notes are uploaded to a folder set up for the student when we begin working together. |
Reteaching of material
Students often want to be retaught material directly from lecture. When I do this, I try to give explanations that are more accessible to students, including tips and tricks for remembering, and allow them to stop me for questions and clarification. I have also prepared a series of handouts that are available to my students that cover the basic of each topic/chapter.
Verbalization of concepts
In learning organic chemistry, verbalization of course material is a very powerful strategy. When I have tutees explain a concept or their thinking process to me, they further cement their understanding. When forced to produce a verbal explanation, they must replace a false sense of understanding and arrive at a satisfactory explanation through reasoning. This typically results in an explanation of a broader pattern or an underlying principle, rather than simply the explanation for a specific example. Overall, this teaching tactic enhances cognitive reasoning (properly assessing a problem and systematically reasoning through it to find a solution), which is not only applicable in the academic sciences, but also of value in many areas of life.
Worksheets and practice exams
In working as a TA at Penn, I created a series of handouts, worksheets, and practice exams specific to the textbook used by Penn Chemistry faculty. As tutees, students will have access to these materials and the associated keys.
To the left is an example of a worksheet I created for Organic II related to the topic of electrophilic aromatic substitution. |