• Undergrad:

  Carnegie Mellon University

• Grad 1:

  Masters, Carnegie Mellon University

• Tutors Out Of:

  Columbus, OH

• Travel Radius:

  14 miles

• Tutoring Certifications:

  algebra 1 - algebra 2 - geometry - grammar - phonics - prealgebra - precalculus - reading - SAT math - trigonometry

• Tutor's Fee Per Hour:

  $36.00 * with a 10% discount after purchasing $360

Hello. My name is Janet and I have tutored middle school, high school, and college students. I have two special styles: one for tutoring advanced and regular highly motivated students, and another for tutoring those who need some catch up work. Sometimes my catch up students become highly motivated advanced students. My degrees (B.S. and M.S.) are in Mathematics, from Carnegie Mellon University, and this is my primary field. I have tutored from general math to calculus III. I also have a strong background of coursework in physics, and recently taught high school physics over the summer to my 15 year old son. He received University of Indiana credit for the course, with a GPA of 92.
No need that you can bring me can shock me, and you may be pleasantly shocked at how much positivity I find in your skills and abilities. No question is ever dumb, and I have nothing but respect for students who identify, through their questions or through my questions, the areas they have mastered and those they need yet to master. My tutoring style is based strongly on Mastery; that is, I will present, question, assess, and re-present material until you have mastered it. There is always plenty of time for your questons. In mathematics and the sciences, skills are built on previous skills, so my approach is both intuitive and best suited to these subjects.

I have provided residential academic tutoring for the Pennsylvania Governor's School for the Sciences for two years. This meant I lived with the high school students and handled many issues related to highly motivated, competitive, sometimes compulsive youngsters. At the opposite end, I have tutored for the Helen S. Mason Center at the Rosemont School, which served neighborhood underprivileged children. I have also home schooled my youngsters when they were younger, and my styles of tutoring have had plenty of time to evolve and mature. I'd love to get to know you!

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• phonics

  I believe that phonics is the best approach to giving our students the advantage of knowing the "code" to deciphering our complex yet rule-following language, English. I have used the Spalding method, called "The Writing Road to Reading," modified for the earliest learners, to teach my own children to read and spell. This method emphasizes mastery of the seventy (yes, 70) basic phonemes (sound units represented by a letter or a group of letters) used in English. Before all 70 are mastered, however, the student is learning to write sound combinations of the earliest phonemes, such as "ten," which is a combination of three phonemes. The writing part comes in when the students are asked to recognize and write (print, usually) the phonemes making up a word, before they are asked to "read" the word. They then achieve mastery of reading by "reading" back the word they have just written. My daughter began this method in January of her second grade year, when she was unable to sight-read a single word of her second grade curriculum. By April she was reading for pleasure and was scoring in the fourth grade range in the McGraw-Hill reading comprehension tests. My son had the advantage of starting immediately in this method in the September in which he was five, and by that November was also reading independently and was scoring in the third grade range of the McGraw-Hill tests. By the way, my daughter was recently graduated from Skidmore College with honors, and is currently teaching English in China. My son is a student of the Honors College at OSU. I have all the materials necessary to teach this method. It may seem rigid, and does need to be followed closely, but it is very flexible in that many media can be used in mastering the phonemes. For example, my son, at five, was reluctant to start with a pencil, so we started with a shallow dish of sand, and he happily "wrote" his phonemes in the sand. Again, his progress was very rapid, and he was working in a composition book within a month. This method is recommended especially for people of all ages for whom English is not the native language, because it "deciphers" English into its phonemes. This is especially helpful for those whose native language is not a phonic language, such as Chinese. These students do not automatically seek out the phonemic constructs in English, so they need extra guidance in learning the phonics of English.