"Hello!

I was a Master's candidate at Teachers College, Columbia University and I have a multidisciplinary degree from Case-Western Reserve University. During my years at Case-Western Reserve, I was a paid tutor in the Resident Tutor Program, a federal program which provided group and individual tutoring to public school students. It was a joy to watch those children progress from struggling and, sometimes, apathetic students, to students who became not only eager to come to class, but also made significant progress in learning how to learn. I have well over 2000 hours of recent tutoring experience (over 1000 hours of which is through WyzAnt) and have worked with students at all grade levels and levels of achievement.

To me, a key factor in student success is that the student is guided to find his or her own styles of learning and motivation. There are many ways to process information and to learn. Howard Gardner of Harvard University has identified at least nine distinct types of intelligence. I believe that helping a person find his or her own way to digest, process and retain information, and then to be able to effectively share that information, is a major responsibility of teachers, and, especially, of tutors who are asked to help to stimulate and improve the performances of individual students at every level.

One of my favorite tutoring successes was working for a period of time with a young lady who was struggling with reading comprehension, writing, and test-taking. She had no confidence in herself and was thoroughly frustrated with herself and her teachers. I helped her to break down her learning process into manageable and achievable goals, find her own way of learning, and then take those elements and apply them to not just basic reading and writing, but also to her progress in all areas of schooling. I am proud to say that this young lady graduated cum laude from one of the top schools in the country, went on to post-graduate school where she also graduated with distinction and is now one" less...