...I feel my key strengths are my ability to clarify difficult concepts in an articulate manner, my ability to engage and motivate students, and my ability to instill confidence by developing academic and test strategies that are optimum for an individual student. Another way I work with students i... (read more)
...During that span of time I have been using the MS-Office Suite of software products – and in particular, the MS-Outlook program – since the mid-1990s at a variety of job settings. I am proficient with MS-Outlook not only for drafting and transmitting emails, but also for the ancillary purposes s... (read more)
...My teaching approach relies on a combination of concept discovery/derivation and a lot of practice -- teaching some of the fundamental principles and then asking the student to internalize the learning by applying it to many problem sets. To help ensure a good match with the student, I offer a n... (read more)
...Most recently (Fall 2022) I taught the ear training course for incoming music PhD's at Harvard University. As an undergraduate, I took courses on Medieval, Baroque, Classical, Romantic, and Modern classical music. I have taught a History of Western Music survey at Brandeis University and Boston College. (read more)
...He was respectful and fair in determining hours worked and billed. In every aspect John was an excellent tutor and we cannot recommend him highly enough. Simon, 20 lessons with John
“Professional, patient and incredibly helpful”
John's tutoring style is the ultimate ideal of how math tutoring should be. (read more)