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James E.
Private tutor in Springfield, OR
Education
Autodidact, I have been attending college since I was fifteen. I dive into at least ten different books a day and call it "my education".
Experience
Taught basic math to fourth graders at Douglas Gardens Elementary. Tutored math to high schoolers at Springfield High School. Taught direct instruction reading to a fourth grader for a summer. Teaching critical reading and writing skills to an eight grader. Taught chemistry, Algebra 2/trig simultaneously to an eleventh grader. Taught Geometry to a ninth grader. Went on to tutor same person in Algebra 2 and Pre-calc. Taught a different ninth grader Pre-algebra. Tutored a tenth grader in Geometry. Aided in AP Calc studies with numerous groups and individuals. I am 21 years old, but would very much like to lie and say that I am twenty seven or eight because that would automatically make me a more credible person. I have 730 pages of hand-written notes (front and back of page usually filled) on 8.5x11in paper; all pages numbered and dated, with the first page dated 9-24-13. (# as of 10-20-14) The topics I write on are as various as the books I read. I know absolutely nothing about computer science, and I like it that way. I tutor because I feel an overriding duty to educate the public since the schools seem not to do that sort of thing anymore. None of the go-getters want anymore to teach k-12 and we all are intellectually taxed as a result. If anyone who reads this has the means to homeschool their child I highly recommend it and would love to assist in the process. My goal is to have the opportunity to relocate to a major city and tutor 1-2 children intensively and extensively in all the necessary subject until he/she would be ready to study at a top tier University (this I would like to do instead of a Phd program because the Universities can help themselves). Personal Motto: "To the things themselves!" I would now like to quote from Thoreau's Walden and use it as a vessel of explanation: "I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it proved to be mean, why then to get the whole and genuine meanness of it, and publish its meanness to the world; or if it were sublime, to know it by experience, and be able to give a true account of it in my next excursion." Education is our preparation for living, and so, like life itself, there must be a certain meanness to education. I like to call this aspect the Rigors of learning. If I can do anything right as a tutor it is to introduce true Rigor to my pupil, the kind where a good question (and only the good ones) will only go unanswered out of exhaustion on my part in the answer search. We live in a time of having the internet in our pockets. There is little room for excuses when one leaves an insightful question DOA. The sublimities of education I need not mention through particular instantiations but I will say this: I write poetry in my free time ONLY because I first conquered and overcame math at the right age to do so. My tutoring technique is determined on a case-by-case basis and I am always glad to share with the parents my ideas for improving what we've already accomplished so far in his or her child's educational goals. References upon request.
Subject Expertise
Math, English, Philosophy, Writing, Study Skills, Geography, History