https://wiscombmethod.com/home daily 1.0 2025-09-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60456cf51b15ec3dfef82220/1616988165532-F51625Z2J9SF1PFBNWIA/IMG_8707.jpeg Home - Tutoring I specialize in individualized, inquiry based learning for children from kindergarten to sixth grade. I help students improve their skills and inspire new learning to help them emerge successfully through the pandemic. I work with you, as parents to learn more about your child’s needs, identify specific skills and areas to improve. I offer tutoring year-round, including the summer. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60456cf51b15ec3dfef82220/1616988210024-TRMITPJ3B0EAYFPJ0PH9/IMG_9309.jpeg Home - Community of Learners Education happens within the individual and is applied in the community. I encourage appropriate social skills and online manners with my students. Each child gets a chance to ask questions, present their work and respond to teacher prompts. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60456cf51b15ec3dfef82220/1616988840679-USH16NGYH83GR68C3996/IMG_3500.jpeg Home - Classes Classes Continue Through the Summer Class Times are Pacific Standard Time $10 per class session K-2 Language Arts: 3:00 - 3:30 , Thursdays K-2 Math Skills: Fun with Fractions 3:00 On Tuesdays 3:30 - 4:00, Wednesday and Thursday Art of Mindfulness: New schedule in March 2023 https://wiscombmethod.com/online-classes daily 0.75 2024-07-25 https://wiscombmethod.com/tutoring daily 0.75 2024-07-25 https://wiscombmethod.com/onsite-learning daily 0.75 2021-04-06 https://wiscombmethod.com/about daily 0.75 2021-04-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60456cf51b15ec3dfef82220/1616989319691-U64TJ76LMQUBCNIOKGJ5/IMG_0466.jpeg About - Education and Teaching Teaching experience 2003 – 2021: GATE Academy San Rafael, CA Lead Core Classroom Teacher, Dean of Students, 2001 – 2003 SAN RAFAEL CITY SCHOOLS DISTRICT Summer Math teacher, Substitute Teacher, 2002 DAVIDSON MIDDLE SCHOOL After-School Academic Tutor and Art Teacher 1998 – 2001 WINDRUSH SCHOOL, EL CERRITO Art Teacher (6-8) Technology Teacher (2-8) 8th Grade Advisor, Elective Teacher, Yearbook Supervisor 1997 – 1998 GRATTAN SCHOOL, SAN FRANCISCO Paraprofessional: Special Education, Technology Support 1990 – 1993 TOWN SCHOOL FOR BOYS, SAN FRANCISCO Extended Day Program: Tutor 1988-1990 EXPLORATORIUM OF SAN FRANCISCO Biology Lab Intern Explainer: Science Museum Docent Education and Professional Development 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019 Nueva Gifted Learning Conference 2013 Confratute, UCONN 2010 Stanford University, Education Program for Gifted Youth, seminars 2008 Bay Area Center for Waldorf Teacher Training (Intensive, three months) 2005 – 2006 Sonoma State University, Graduate Studies in Education: Curriculum Development 1994 – 1996 San Francisco State University, BA 1992 - 1993 California College of Arts and Crafts, Undergraduate Fine Art Studies 1989 – 1992 City College of San Francisco, Undergraduate Studies Other 2005 - 2020 Art Program GATE Academy (K-8) 2004 – 2021 The Rodan Foundation, The Love Awakening, Volunteer, Meditation teacher 2018 - 2019 “Awaken the Creator“ Stone Sculpture workshop 2003 O’Hanlon Center for the Arts (Art workshop) 1999 – 2002 Achual Healing Arts Project (community service in the Peruvian Amazon) https://wiscombmethod.com/being-a-team daily 0.75 2021-04-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60456cf51b15ec3dfef82220/1616989163877-RNQPWLNPPFGP1V48KF1A/IMG_5206.jpeg Approach - The Wiscomb Method Tobias Keene, D.D.S. Hailing from Richmond, Virginia, Dr. Tobias Keene brings a bit of unabashed Southern hospitality to all his patients. He moved to Washington, D.C. over thirty years ago as a freshman at Ivy College. Right after graduation, he attended World University’s School of Dentistry. Before opening Keene Dental in 1994, he worked for free clinics and some of the finest practices in the District. He is part of the 123 Dental Association and stays up-to-date on the latest dental discoveries. When not striving to keep his patients happy and healthy, he’s enjoys hiking with his family in Rock Creek Park. https://wiscombmethod.com/general-1 daily 0.75 2021-03-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec321c2af33de48734cc929/1589847902870-ZOUR0EX0L2QSQNRC1SP2/image-asset.jpeg General 1 - Make it stand out. It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec321c2af33de48734cc929/1589847903067-57HDPDJ6TWU40QPAQLS4/image-asset.jpeg General 1 - Make it stand out. It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://wiscombmethod.com/contact daily 0.75 2025-09-11 https://wiscombmethod.com/testimonials daily 0.75 2021-04-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60456cf51b15ec3dfef82220/1617076309097-A5TIQYCVT0D3KDW9VCE4/IMG_6525+2.jpeg Testimonials - Testimonials "Mr. Wiscomb is a nurturing educator who fosters a lifelong love of learning. He creates a dynamic educational environment and delivers a mind-expanding, soul-filling experience for his students." -Leela S., parent CA Arin has been wonderful with our two children. He’s been perceptive, resourceful, creative, nimble, patient, upbeat, prepared, kind, and engaging. With him, learning is effective, expressive, and fun. Highly recommend! -Alexandra I., parent, PA Finding Arin as my son’s virtual teacher during the pandemic has been such a blessing for my son. Due to circumstances from our move across country and the ongoing pandemic, my 4.5 yr old son was spending his days at home and I delightfully signed him up for Arin’s group sessions for math, language arts and art and also some private tutoring (at my son's request because he simply loved learning from Arin). Arin is truly a gem. He has such a warm, calm and inviting presence and has the rare ability to instantly connect with children, even through video! I have, without hesitation, recommended Arin to other families, and it speaks volumes that the children not only continue to participate in his tutoring, but look forward to their time with Arin. What makes Arin unique is that he has such an expertise with gifted children and he thoroughly understands their tendencies, thought process and learning styes. It is evident in the small moments during a group teaching session where he demonstrates patience and agility and also during his one-on-one tutoring sessions. I had asked Arin to introduce the idea of growth mindset with my son, as he is a perfectionist and tends to lean towards a fixed mindset. After a few sessions with Arin, I noticed that my son was relaxing a bit on tendencies towards perfection. Arin also incorporates mindfulness during his teachings and it helps tremendously as my son feels emotions intensely as other students in his class do. As a mom and a pediatrician/neonatologist, Arin has truly become not only my son’s teacher, but my resource and guide to how best understand my 4.5 yr old sensitive and bright son. I cannot recommend anyone more and only wish more parents of bright and eager learners will be able to access Arin to help navigate this journey we are on. Esther, parent IL Whether she’s doing one or more classes in a row, our daughter is excited to attend and engaged from start to finish. She is learning valuable information the whole time, which is greatly enhanced by Mr. Wiscomb’s sense of humor. We appreciate the attention given to the material without using videos. Mr. Wiscomb also adjusts his lessons to the needs and abilities of each of the kids, making sure all of the kids are able to succeed and progress. In addition to the excellent academic work, Mr. Wiscomb is highly attentive to the emotional needs of the kids and encourages them to express their feelings, big or small, during the classes. In short, our experience doing online learning with Mr. Wiscomb has been excellent. We tried many online classes during the pandemic and his are the ones with which we stuck. He really is a gifted teacher! Craig N., parent, Ontario I enrolled my 6-year-old son into Arin’s group class after hearing such rave reviews of him, and it has exceeded my expectations! My son is currently homeschooling with me and I wanted to supplement with some fun language arts and math. It is small enough where he (and each student) can get their individualized attention, but also provides a fun social setting where the kids can get this each other well. Arin does a phenomenal job not just teaching such helpful information, but also nurturing and showing attention to each student and interacting with them in a deeper and personal way. And just as importantly, he instills confidence and a sense of growth mindset to them all by encouraging them to keep trying even through “the hard things” and never give up. Nathan loves this class and has grown in visible ways in his confidence, creativity and motivation level, and looks forward to these classes every week. Thank you for your care and dedication, Arin! Julie C., parent, IL Mr. Wiscomb is an amazing teacher! Both of our kids love his online classes. He is super engaging and enthusiastic. His classes are very organized, fun and interactive. What we love about Mr. Wiscomb is his patient and encouraging teaching style, not only does he focus on academic learning and critical thinking, he also incorporates social and emotional skills. -Anna J, parent CA “Both my daughters loved Mr. Wiscomb’s classes and are both still active artists. He is such a super positive presence and so creative, always finding something encouraging to say. My daughters loved his classes and did his classes many many times. He does lots of experimentations with different mediums, including watercolour, acrylic, stone carving, bronze casting, pencil, and oil paint (only when they were older). He was very observant of the whole class no matter the activity and always had a positive outlook. He really helped my girls advance and continue their art. Both my daughters love dropping in to visit him even though they are now in high school!” Andrea K., parent CA “Mr. Wiscomb is not only a gifted artist but also a truly inspiring and talented teacher. Mr. Wiscomb taught the children with great patience using a variety of mediums and methodologies (e.g., paints, stone carvings, clay etc.) with nature as their inspiration. Our son’s creativity, art, self confidence and manners flourished under Mr. Wiscomb’s guidance. He gained an appreciation of his environment and to express himself using art and always looked forward to his time in class with joy. Mr. Wiscomb is an effective gifted children’s educator and has a wealth of creative ways to inspire every child. We cannot recommend his classes enough!” Ruhi V., parent FL “The kids just LOVED Mr. Wiscomb’s programs! No one wanted to leave at the end of each art class. They just wanted to stay and continued working on their master pieces, whether it’s a painting or a clay sculpture. As parents, we were so glad to see our kids found ways to express their thoughts and creativity. We highly recommend Mr. Wiscomb’s classes. 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