"I have a PhD from Trinity College Dublin with a completed dissertation on Shakespeare. Beyond my research, I also have sevens years experience teaching at universities, five of those years were specifically spent teaching college freshman how to write. I specialize in helping your child learn how to construct a solid essay that is well-argued, well researched, proofread, and uses extraordinary vocabulary. All of my composing tutoring sessions include vocabulary building.

Beyond my college level teaching experience, I also have several years experience working with well-known tutoring companies as an ACT/SAT test prep, elementary math, reading (all levels), algebra, geometry, biology, and chemistry tutor. Because of my advanced degree I am usually asked to provide higher level tutoring (high school and above); however, I LOVE tutoring elementary and middle school children. I thoroughly enjoy helping students grasp the fundamentals of math and reading. I relish the questions these students ask me, as it often requires a more philosophic answer. I rely heavily on the Socratic Method--which is a fancy name for asking a lot of questions. My tutoring is much less of a lecture and more of a discussion. I would rather lead my student to the answer and have them discover it for themselves than simply point to it in the book. I want my students to learn how to "teach themselves" so that when I am no longer around they will have the skills to be successful for whatever they choose to do in life. I firmly believe in the power of education, and I will do everything I can to help your child succeed.

I am a young tutor which means I relate well to the students and to the distractions they have going on around them. I'm not going to harangue them for preferring to practice soccer (or any other sport) than to finish their math homework. However, I WILL emphasize how important their math homework is, and I will work hard to make tutoring an engaging and FUN experience. They might never love tutoring as much as sports (or music," less...