...I have written tens of papers on these subjects. While in college at Cornell and in graduate school at UPenn, I have counseled many stellar high school students in the process of applying to college. I am there for students every step of the way, from figuring out a basic plan and which colleges they may want to apply to, all the way through the submission and admissions process. (read more)
...I've done a good deal of field biology--in the way of habitat restoration--in places like the Presidio here in San Francisco. I'm conversant with a good many kinds of plant and animal research. I have many years of experience teaching and refining students' grammar skills. (read more)
...Again, the point of a healthy tutor-student relationship is that a student learns how to identify and then independently address these particular concerns long after each tutorial session ends. I strive to help students target and understand their struggles with learning and then move forward to... (read more)
...I work with children from the general population to those with special needs in areas of ADD, autism and children with emotional trama. I work as a tutor instead of a teacher because I enjoy working in a small group or one on one. I like to adapt my lessons to the student's needs and I find this easier to do in a smaller situation. (read more)
...Good tutoring requires not a set program that gets imposed on a student, but rather an on-going give and take with each individual student. Only such a flexible and attentive approach takes full advantage of the power of one-on-one tutoring, which in my experience can be ten or twenty times grea... (read more)