Ms. L

My background and undergraduate degree is in chemistry. I started my teaching with college-level chemistry and have extensive experience tutoring students in chemistry at any level. I am licensed to teach all sciences and so I dabble in all of them from time to time, but always return to my first love: chemistry. I'm constantly searching for new ways to teach the difficult concepts.

I run a very student-centered (or is the jargon subject-centered?) classroom which is at times a thorn in the side of my administration who would prefer to see a "sage on the stage". I teach in questions, rather than answers, to guide the students to find where, without asking the teacher blatantly, they might encounter the answers they seek. This comes from my college-teaching experience where students are expected to learn from the book and use class-lecture as the reinforcer. Why not prepare the students to have a success experience in college?

I became a licensed teacher through my graduate work. As stated previously, my undergraduate degree is straight-science.