...Growing up in Northern Virginia, I always excelled in math and constantly shared my expertise with other students that were not quite as adept in the subject. Throughout my undergraduate degree and subsequent Masters degree at GMU, I continued to tutor my peers in science as well as math and fou... (read more)
...I worked for 30 years as an engineer in the USA after my graduate school. I spent seven years as an assistant professor of computer and electronics engineering at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, and 23 years in the satellite communications industry in Washington, DC. I was also a teaching assistant at the University of Virginia for 4 years and at Cairo University for 2 years. (read more)
...I hold a Master's degree in early childhood special education. I have extensive reading intervention training through this program that focused on working with children with various reading hindrances. For one assignment, I worked with a girl with dyslexia on improving her reading skills, comprehension and confidence. (read more)
...Knowledge about common academic documentation systems
Research skills
Composition theory and practice
PhD in English
Experience tutoring high school students taking AP English I have a PhD in English and taught literature and composition at the college level for 20 years. I also tutor students p... (read more)
...I point these out at every opportunity in order to build bridges to material that the student may know well. A simple example of this is the trigonometric identity sin^2 + cos^2 = 1. I explain to the student that this is the trigonometric form of the Pythagorean theorem of geometry. (read more)