I graduated from Ithaca College with a degree in music education. After graduating I worked with a nonprofit organization called City Year where I worked as a tutor, mentor, and role model. Our mission was to work with students and create individualized curriculum to fill skill gaps and make sure students had the opportunity to be successful. I believe in putting in the extra time to make sure that I teach toward each student’s learning style. I understand that all students learn at different paces in different ways and make sure that each student is getting their best education. One-on-one tutoring situations are ideal for making sure that’s possible. I am patient, inquisitive, enthusiastic, and look forward to helping you reach your goals.

I graduated from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music (B.M.) and from Ithaca College (M.M.). At Oberlin, I studied trumpet performance and Eurhythmics, which is a fancy name for a unique pedagogical approach that uses movement to teach music. At Ithaca College, I studied to be a conductor, the musical kind (of course).So, why is someone with two degrees in music tutoring Reading and Writing? Writing has always been an essential arrow in my quiver of skills, so to speak. I wrote the program notes for the orchestra concerts during my time at Ithaca College and all my graduate coursework required a high level of writing. But the real reason I am a Writing tutor is that I love to write. Furthermore, I love to edit (strange, I know). I enjoy looking through an essay, tweaking words and sentences here and there to get the essay just right. There is something incredibly satisfying about constructing an expressive, potent piece of writing.When I am not writing, teaching music, or spending time with my lovely wife, I enjoy tinkering with my home espresso machine. I never used to be much of a coffee drinker until I bought my wife a semi-automatic espresso machine for her birthday. It quickly became much more mine than hers but as long as she gets the cappuccinos that result, she is fine with that. Understand, this is not the kind of machine that you just push a button and out comes a latte. It is the kind that specialty coffee shops use which require a bit of skill and finesse from the barista. I love experimenting with all the variables of making a great espresso including the dose amount, how fine to do the grind, how hard to tamp down the espresso, etc. The result? Delicious cappuccinos, right in my own home!

Every student should have the opportunity to feel successful. As a tutor and teacher, I work to help students be active, rather than passive, learners. I believe that my job isn't only to teach students academic content, but also to help them develop skills to set goals and gain autonomy over their own education. When working in schools, collaboration with colleagues is central to my practice; when tutoring, this means being open to feedback from my students and their families so we can work together to best support the student's growth. This allows me to become self-reflective about my own practice, and match my tutoring style so it best meets the needs of each unique student.

I've been tutoring math at the college level for over five years, working with students of all different backgrounds and ability levels. I have experience with the special education population, and I am comfortable working through the needs of students with disabilities, learning or otherwise. I pride myself on my ability to tailor lessons to particular students, finding the pedagogical methods that work best for the individual.I'm a transplanted New Yorker living in Oregon while finishing graduate school. I was a special education student in a Montessori school until middle school, then "mainstreamed" by the beginning of high school. I attended Ithaca College, a small private college, for undergrad, and Oregon State, a large public university, for my graduate work. Taken together, this has given me a healthy appreciation for the variety of student experiences in the education system. I feel that tutoring can address some of the difficulty that arises when a student's needs are not being met by their particular school.My spare time is devoted mostly to writing. Though my background and formal education is in mathematics, I come from a family of writers and musicians. I love language, its history, structure, and evolution, possibly because of this upbringing. I am also hoping to transition to tutoring more in this area (i.e. GRE Verbal, writing, etc.).

I hold a Master of Education in Secondary English and Social Studies from the University of Pennsylvania. I also hold Pennsylvania Certification in Secondary English and Social Studies.I began teaching high school English at Philadelphia's Simon Gratz High School and Cherry Hill (New Jersey) High School East.After a lengthy career in marketing and advertising, I returned to teaching at several of Philadelphia's magnet schools, including Franklin Learning Center, Lankanau High School and William Bodine High School for International Affairs.While at Bodine, I developed the curriculum for and taught the SAT Prep course. That year, the school achieved the highest scores on the PSSA English test in the its history. During my career I have taught English, Creative Writing, African American Literature, Filmmaking, Introduction to Communications, Journalism, World History, American History and African American History.

I've long been drawn towards education, and it's given me many years of experience teaching and tutoring. I love learning, and I hope to encourage this passion in others too. I believe it's important to make lessons interesting and engaging! I graduated from Ithaca College with degrees in English Literature and Spanish, and went on to teach English abroad in South America: first in Colombia, then in Brazil through a Fulbright grant. Literature, foreign languages, and social studies are my specialties, but I'm comfortable in all subject areas. I'm an encouraging and warm presence in the classroom, and get to know the needs of the students I work with so that we can strive to meet their goals together. Outside the classroom I read and write, practice yoga and pottery, and love being with friends and family. I hope to have the chance to work with you!

I was motivated to become a tutor because I wanted a job doing the things that I love: learning new topics and helping others. My goal is to not only have students successfully learn information, but additionally, I want them to feel confident about their work.I have been a tutor for four years now. I began tutoring middle school math my freshman year of high school, and later I tutored Regents Earth Science through National Honors Society in my senior year. I am now a freshman at Ithaca College, majoring in Biology, minoring in Anthropology, and pursuing a career in medicine. Apart from education, I am also interested in art and music, and I participate in club soccer and varsity crew at Ithaca College.As a Varsity Tutor, I hope to show my students how enjoyable learning really is. I hope that you will learn from me, as I know I'll continue to learn from you!

I am currently a Clinical Health Studies major in the Physical Therapy program at Ithaca College. I am minoring in Neuroscience, Biology, and Deaf Studies. I love animals, art, dance, music, and science.

I received my Bachelor of Music degree from Ithaca College and my Master of Music degree from Webster University in St. Louis, MO. Both degrees were in Trombone Performance, though I had a strong Music Education foundation at Ithaca. I worked as a band director in New Jersey public schools for 25 years, teaching general music to grades 2-6, elementary band, middle school band, and middle and high school music technology. I've also taught privately for over 30 years, teaching all levels and specializing in low brass and jazz improvisation. As a trombonist, I performed, toured and recorded with the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra and was a featured soloist with the Jordan Thomas Orchestra at the NJ JazzFest in Madison, NJ. I have played in Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, the Hollywood Bowl, Tanglewood, and Birdland jazz club in NYC. I feel that performing professionally makes me a better teacher, and being a professional educator helps my playing. I am also the founder, leader, trombonist, and chief arranger and composer for the ACME BRASS CO., an eight-piece brass with rhythm section group, producing ACME BRASS's first CD, entitled "X-MAS X-ING." My specialty area with Varsity Tutors is music. Music has special powers to stimulate creativity, advance learning ability and create a sense of community. I feel as music teacher, I can facilitate all aspects of learning through the use of music, as well as learning about music. In my work as a teacher, I have come to see my role as providing a warm, supportive, positive environment in which students can feel empowered to experiment and learn. My job is to meet the students where they are, assess their present level of ability as well as their motivation and capacity to improve, and help them design a plan for learning and improving. Each lesson or meeting is like a consultation where the student shows me what he or she has worked on, we discuss how to set and achieve the next goal and adjust any methods being used. The next week, we again evaluate and adjust. This is all done within the framework of clear expectations and standards. Often, I say that my job is to teach students how to teach themselves. That is, in a lesson I give students several things: the tools to use while practicing or studying, the ability to develop and use their own practice tools, and the motivation to continue by providing an example of the desired goal. This is my favorite kind of teaching or tutoring; watching a student have a "light-bulb" moment when they firmly grasp a new concept, show mastery of a recently-acquired skill, make a connection to their life or some previous learning, or clarify their learning style to feel their forward momentum.

Have you ever sat in front of your homework and had no idea where to begin? I have, and it was no fun. That is until I got a tutor to guide me, then I started making steps in the right direction. I would love to be that tutor that helps you get to the next level.I have 4 years of classroom teaching experience, and have loved every minute of it. I find it rewarding to see students learning concepts they once found challenging. That is why proper scaffolding questions and consistent prompts are two tools in my toolbox I use to help students achieve long lasting results.

Current second year law student in the NYC-Metropolitan area with a Bachelor's Degree in Sociology, English Literature & Legal Studies. I'm passionate about various genres of literature (American Lit, Shakespeare, 18th Century) and would love to assist in any college admissions essays or academic writing to further the future education of my students.

I am fascinated by language, by both the intricacies of its structure and by the awesome array of possibilities it can unleash when masterfully used. Give me a piece of writing, whether highly technical or enchantingly lyrical, and I will immerse myself in it and then quickly become “fluent” in its particular style.Just last year I graduated Magna Cum Laude from Ithaca College with a degree in English Literature as well as a minor in Integrated Marketing Communications. At Ithaca, I was a proud member of the Sigma Tau Delta English National Honor Society as well as the interdisciplinary National Honor Society Phi Kappa Phi. Next fall, I will be beginning a PhD program in English Literature at Brown University in order to pursue my dream of becoming a college professor. Outside of the classroom, I am passionate about music, movies, Spanish and traveling.As a teacher, I strive to cultivate an organic interest in my subject matter while simultaneously developing a thorough knowledge of the technical aspects of that field. I do this by encouraging independent thinking in my students while guiding them through the sometimes thorny thickets of more structural aspects of our work such as grammar, punctuation, or source citations. It is my hope that my students will come away from my lessons not only prepared to succeed in their examinations and compositions, but also with a bourgeoning interest in these fields themselves.