"Hello!

My name is Emily W. and I am a 28 year old college graduate with a physics degree from Boston College. I moved from Massachusetts to central Florida in 2017 to push myself and try something new. My first formal teaching experience began summer 2017, as I taught Applied Physics at the Exploration School at Yale University, a boarding school for international high school students. Since moving to Florida, I have tutored all math subjects from middle school math through college multivariable calculus, and sciences including high school and college physics, chemistry, and orgo. Other topics I have tutored include GED prep, SAT prep (subject and general), ACT prep, and saxophone.

Tutoring is an exciting occupation because every opportunity is totally new, even when teaching the same subject. It is a reward and a challenge to come up with new ways to explain the same topics because every student learns differently. The most rewarding part of any tutoring session is the "Aha" moment where the student finally understands a difficult topic. A teacher in a classroom must teach topics broadly to try to appeal to as many students as possible, but this approach instead leaves most students partially understanding instead of fully understanding. The job of a tutor is to bridge that gap and create full understanding through personalized lessons while making personal connections to the student.

As a tutor, I would expect students to encounter challenging material, to be perplexed, and to be amazed when they realize how much they can achieve on their own.

Math/Science-Related Test Scores:

GRE Math: 163

AP Calculus: 5

AP Chemistry: 5

AP Physics: 4

AP Java: 4

Physics Electives: Special Relativity, High Energy Astrophysics, Plasma Physics

College Maths: Calculus 1, Calculus 2, Multivariable Calculus, Linear Algebra, Differential Equations" less...