...I primarily tutor middle school, high school and college students. I have worked with students from Owen High School, Asheville High, A.C. Reynolds, T.C. (read more)
...I see tutoring as an opportunity to empower students to navigate problems independently. Rather than teaching strategies and procedures alone, I dig into the “why”s underneath- why a method works, how it relates to other concepts, why we are doing what we are doing. Throughout our sessions, I try to tease out my students’ curiosity and foster perseverance. (read more)
...I have over ten years' experience in the classroom at both the university level (Washington U in St. Louis, UC Santa Barbara, Wentworth) and the community college level (Santa Barbara City College, North Shore Community College in Lynn, MA). I had several clients for one-on-one tutoring in the h... (read more)
My background is in mathematics and astronomy. I taught myself calculus at 16 and had a full year of trigonometry and differential calculus in senior high school. I published my first scholarly paper at age 14 on the motion of Periodic Comet Biela in the Proceedings of the Southeast Regional Convention of the Astronomical League (Huntsville, Alabama) in August 1971. (read more)