首先是学生，其次是老师。这种心态提醒我要退后一步，去了解学生的背景知识、现状、对学习内容的感受、梦想和目标。对我来说，当我和学生一起工作时，倾听他们的想法是很重要的。这样，我可以提出更好的问题，帮助他们在特定的知识和生活方式上成长。这样，我的学生就会满意地离开课程，觉得这段时间花得很值。我的教育背景是科学——在我本科教育的前半部分，我住在新奥尔良，在杜兰大学学习神经科学。在那里，我在新奥尔良特许科学与数学高中担任AP微积分课程的教师，这是我第一次真正地在课后学习中扮演教师的角色。一个重要的问题变成了“你想从这门课和我们在一起的时间里得到什么?”这样我就可以让我对学生的期望与他们的目标保持一致。在杜兰大学毕业后，我回到家乡，在达拉斯的德克萨斯大学完成了我的本科学位。我在学生成功中心担任生物化学助教和物理补充教学负责人的职位，使我的教学理念得到了进一步发展。 Here, I started to see teaching as an art of sharing information and helping peers think in new ways about how to take-in and assimilate knowledge. I hadn't considered teaching as a career up to this point; I had always wanted to be a doctor. I took the MCAT in 2015, and interviewed for medical school in Texas. I decided on UT Southwestern. I graduated Summa Cum Laude with Bachelor of Science in Neuroscience at UT Dallas and then went on to complete two and half years of medical school with clinical rotations at UT Southwestern Medical Center. I liked all the specialties in which I rotated, but I did not feel called to any one specialty in particular like my peers did. This is why I left medical school in 2018 to pursue a M.S. in Applied Cognition and Neuroscience at UT Dallas. Since then, I have taught with Kaplan Test Prep as an MCAT Instructor for In-Person, Kaplan Partner Solutions Institutional Partnerships, and Live Online delivery modes. At Kaplan, my teaching style has matured incorporating elements of growth mindset and learning science with spaced repetition of relevant concepts all while meeting students where they are on their journeys in education. Now, as an Honors Chemistry teacher at Coppell High School, I am able to design learning to meet individual student needs in a dual-delivery space: in-person and online education, all at the same time, via zoom. Helping students achieve their full potential is my passion, and I specialize in MCAT science. Please reach out with questions!