...I have worked as a professional tutor in Asheville since the spring of 2015. I primarily tutor middle school, high school and college students. I have worked with students from Owen High School, Asheville High, A.C. (read more)
...That is indeed me hanging off a bridge I taught my students to build made only of Popsicle sticks and hot glue! In addition to ten years of tutoring extremely satisfied students, I have taught Physics, Algebra, Calculus, and Engineering to middle school and high school students for Duke TIP. At Duke, I developed curricula to teach a year of material in three weeks. (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)
...For instance, the stories of women like Abigail Adams, the wife of our second president, who expressed in her letters to husband John, a forward thinking and inventive mind that he found indispensable. Other periods of history on which I'm widely read include Industrial Revolution England and th... (read more)