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If you're in need of a tutor in the areas I handle, then please contact me. We'll either talk immediately or we'll set up an appointment to speak soon. I will be wanting to know precisely how I can add the most value to your educational experience. Getting to know you/your child is part of how I am able to do that. 

PARENTS: if you're concerned about your teenager's progress in school, I will want to hear about what your son or daughter is working on, where he/she needs help, and your expectations. What are your teen's objectives? How do we draw a road map toward success? What are the milestones along the way going to look like? I ask because we need to be able to track our results. Has he or she considered career goals yet?

Also, let me know a little about your child personally. What are his/her hobbies outside of school? Which community organizations is he/she involved in? Has he/she struggled with any particular learning disabilities?

COLLEGE/UNIVERSITY STUDENTS: tell me what you are looking for in terms of help from a tutor. I will want to know where you need help, and about your expectations. What are your objectives? How do we draw a road map toward success? What are the milestones along the way going to look like? I ask because we need to be able to track our results. What are your career goals, and how do you imagine that tutoring fits into those goals?

Also, please let me know a little about you personally: what are your hobbies? Which community organizations are you involved in, apart from your studies? Have you struggled with any particular learning disabilities?

I will be glad to set up a formal plan, complete with key performance indicators, if parents/students would like. If I do, however, I'll want to first conduct an assessment of the student I will be tutoring.

In the space below, I have placed an image based on my own past tutoring experience. In this case, an undergraduate college student contacted me over ten years ago during the fall semester. He had failed his mid-term exam in American History. After we initially spoke, he and I put together a rubric so that I could track not just his learning, but his ability to synthesize information and explain history when it came to short quizzes and exams. I also asked to see his prior written work for the class, including notes from lectures and the failed mid-term exam. I wanted to have an idea of what his professor would be looking for in the future. My initial assessment wasn't perfect, but it helped tremendously as we moved forward. At the time I tutored him, I took extensive notes prior to and following every session. He was an exceptional student in science and mathematics, but no one would have mistaken him for being a History major. However, he went from being a D student at the midterm to earning a B+ by the end of the semester.   

The rubric we conceptualized together helped him to learn the material systematically. And on my part, I learned during that semester that it was best to show him how to conceptualize the "Discrepancy Between Ideas and Their Practical Implementation" as a mathematical formula, since he preferred to conceptualize learning material in terms of mathematics, when possible.    

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Of less immediate concern to me as a tutor, but still important, I'll want to make sure I am tutoring students who are getting enough sleep and fairly balanced nutrition. For more on that, see my Discipline, Focus, and the Adolescent Brain. The student I referred to above stopped eating fast food while I was working with him, and cut out high fructose corn syrup from his diet.

We can also discuss payment options. So I am looking forward to hearing from you! And finally, I am looking forward to your enjoying greater success toward achieving your educational goals!