Dear potential student,
My name is Avery Caulfield. A little bit about my educational background, beginning with my most recent degree and working backwards in time: I am currently a PhD candidate in philosophy at Johns Hopkins university, with a focus on psychological and brain sciences, and I have already obtained my master's degree as a part of the same program. I obtained a BA from Tufts University with a double major in cognitive science and philosophy, graduating summa cum laude with a...
Dear potential student,
My name is Avery Caulfield. A little bit about my educational background, beginning with my most recent degree and working backwards in time: I am currently a PhD candidate in philosophy at Johns Hopkins university, with a focus on psychological and brain sciences, and I have already obtained my master's degree as a part of the same program. I obtained a BA from Tufts University with a double major in cognitive science and philosophy, graduating summa cum laude with a 3.92 GPA. I received a 35 on ACT Reading, a 35 on ACT English, and a 36 on ACT Math. I received my high school diploma from a highly competitive boarding school called Loomis Chaffee.
While my current focuses are in philosophy and psychology, I have college-level course experience in a variety of analytical subjects, as well. In whichever course you hope to improve, I can be of help!
I have designed my own tutoring approach, called thesis-driven approach, that I have found very effective in my experience with students. The approach works much like a formally structured paper. If I am tutoring a course over several sessions, I like to devote some time in the very first session to give the student a broad overview of the course, without diving into too much nuance. For example, I would begin a set of calculus-focused lessons by describing what it means to take a mathematical approach to measuring change and the applied significance of a calculus-based approach. In each lesson, I begin with a similar overview of the material that we’re covering that day, diving into significance and application before getting into the technical elements of the lesson. So, like a paper with a broad thesis in the introduction and a set of topic sentences at the beginning of each paragraph, my lessons augment the student’s technical understanding while always keeping the big picture in mind.
If you’re interested in taking lessons with me, please feel free to reach out! I can’t wait to get started!
Avery
