...I began teaching in Kentucky in 1990 and continued to do so at various levels (K-12) until 2007. The majority of my teaching experience is with high school mathematics from pre-algebra to calculus, but I have also taught physics and chemistry as an adjunct professor at the college level. I left... (read more)
...I have had additional coursework in Accounting. I am married with 4 boys in the Loveland Schools, coach and referee soccer. This experience allows me to gain good rapport with the students I tutor and allows the lessons to be efficient since the students tend to be relaxed and ready to start. (read more)
...Are you happiest staying up all night finishing that paper, turning it in at the last minute, knowing that you could have done a better job if you just had a little more time? If those things make you happy, then don’t call me, because I will burst your bubble. I will show you that it's actually easier to practice good study skills than to try to do your work without them. (read more)
...I took 4 years of French in high school and one year of college at Northwestern. I never really became fluent in the language, though, until I needed it to communicate on a daily basis. Repeating drills out of a French book is completely different from watching a movie in French, reading a book in French, or having a conversation with a French person! (read more)
...From 1979 to 1993, I read Ptolemy, Copernicus, Kepler, Newton, and Einstein at St. John’s College in Santa Fe, eventually graduating with a BA in the Great Books of Western Civilization. In 2015, I took the Harvard University online course Super Earths and Life Beyond Earth. (read more)