Teaching and Tutoring
Anoo has a blended educational background and passions. She has two degrees in computer science and is a certified K-8 teacher, worked as a program manager at Microsoft to envision, design and implement software for new technologies including Surface and Mobile Devices long before they came into the form they are in today, has climbed several 14,000 feet mountains and led youth on an expedition to Mt. Kilimanjaro, is an artist and cook, has taught middle school and high school math, science, cooking, has taught computer science to college freshmen, grows her own food and has traveled the world to enjoy and study various ecosystems.
This background together with Anoo’s focus on learning-centric education leads her to build strong trusting relationships with learners and to personalize their learning experience. She brings this particular bent in so-called simple tutoring relationships and in more rich group classes.
Math and Science
Anoo tutors 4th-12th graders (or those with equivalent learning experience regardless of age) on a 1:1 basis.
Expertise
Common Core Standards
Math curricula used in the Seattle, Bellevue and Lake Washington School Districts
Singapore Math
Use of Khan Academy in conjunction with book-based learning
Math Games and Puzzles for all levels
Physics and Chemistry for middle and high school
Learning skills and Study Habits
Organization skills
Teaching Style
Anoo seeks to understand how her students learn and she shares this information with them and their parents. She personalizes each child’s tutoring experience to meet her learning style, inclinations and interests. It is not uncommon for students to come out of tutoring with ideas, tips and ways to pursue other academic subjects. Anoo also specializes in learning skills, organization and developing study habits.
Availability
Anoo tutors on weekday evenings from 7-9 pm at her Green Lake learning studio and Saturday or Sunday mornings from 8:30 – 11:30 am.
Design Thinking, Tinkering, Art, Technology and Environment
Design Thinking is an integrated thinking and learning approach. It engages learners to understand a problem, empathize with the people plagued by the problem, brainstorm ideas for solutions, build a solution, test it and share results. It is the bedrock of software and other product development. This approach is now making inroads in education to cut across subject areas and involve learners inquiring into integrated topics and questions.
Tinkering, Art and Technology are all media that can be used to understand questions and build solutions to problems.
Anoo has a particular love of the natural world. She is developing herself an educator who explores ecosystems and leads outdoor explorations that build relationships with the larger natural world. The outdoor explorations (in a vegetable garden, on a hike, in a stream or a wetland or on a mountain) lead to questions and understanding that can be explored through Design Thinking that uses Art and Technology.
You can expect to see more writing on this topic and potentially some camps and afterschool offerings that braid together these areas.