Hello,
I am a philosophy, classics, and history student at Emory University who is looking to tutor high school students. I have a large amount of practical experience in tutoring and a breadth of knowledge that makes me appropriate for any number of fields. I have done private peer tutoring for classmates, have been a teacher's assistant in a middle school history class, a teacher's assistant in a high school biology class, tutored Hispanic kindergarten aged children in English, and worked as a tutor for a program at my high school that was designed to help inner city children who could not afford tutors. I have educational experience that is very relevant to the field as I have taken a course on teaching and a psychology course that focused in part on how the mind learns. At my high school, Glynn Academy, I was the captain of the quiz bowl team, the debate team, the math team, and the academic decathlon team. In addition to those positions, I was the recipient of numerous academic awards including the AMC-10 and AMC-12 highest score awards in mathematics, the Woodman of the World history award, and awards in literature, history, and overall academic excellence that were through local foundations. I have placed at the state level in academic decathlon and in debate. I also have represented my district at the National Catholic Forensic League tournament and I was named a National Forensic League all-American. If your child needs a tutor for a non-linguistic subject, then I can most likely help. I have had former students tell me that I am very adept at explaining difficult concepts in simpler manners and that I can help them analyze an issue from a different manner. Much of my teaching philosophy I attribute to Dewey as I believe that children want to learn and that it is the goal of the teacher to act as a guide for the student. As a teacher I try to help the student to understand problems so that he or she is not just plugging numbers into an equation or memorizing rhymes like "in 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue." I have the goal of explaining to the child why the numbers belong in an equation and what the numbers mean while also explaining the reason why Columbus sailed as to give perspective into events and not just to promote rote memorization, but to increase knowledge in a meaningful way.