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I'm not tutoring or buried in my textbooks, you will either find me rock climbing at the Triangle Rock Club, playing Ultimate Frisbee, working on my car, or enjoying the great outdoors (beaches, mountains, forests--you name it, I love it). On rainy weekends I enjoy tinkering with computers and old electronics, playing Pokemon, or picking at my guitar.
I am an interdisciplinary educator with an Ed.M. from the Harvard Graduate School of Education and a B.A. from Dartmouth College. My background is primarily in integrated arts learning and museum education and I specialize in visual arts, history and art history, and object-based learning. In all subjects, I take a creative, inquiry-based and learner-centered approach, designing opportunities for each unique individual to meet their learning goals.
I am a recent graduate from a masters program in biostatistics at Columbia University. I received my Bachelor of Arts in biological sciences, with a focus in neurobiology at Northwestern University. In August, I will be starting a doctoral program in biostatistics at NYU. I was a teaching assistant at Columbia University in my department and also have tutored graduate students and undergraduates privately as well. My primary areas of tutoring are math and statistics coursework in addition to math sections on standardized tests such as the GRE and GMAT. I am very passionate about helping students feel more confident and excited about math. In my spare time, I enjoy running, playing piano, and spending time with friends and family.
I am a graduate of Wesleyan University, where I received my Bachelor of Arts in Sociology with High Honors. With eight years of experience working in education, I've tutored students in math, science, history, and English, as well as helped students prepare for standardized tests. I've guided adults towards passing the US Citizenship Exam and taught English in India, where I lived for six months. Whenever I work with a student I personalize the lessons to fit their particular learning style, since I know every student is unique and having the right fit can make all the difference in making learning fun and effective. My strengths are tutoring the social sciences and humanities, as well as making math and standardized tests approachable to students that normally don't like those subjects. In my spare time I like traveling, spending time in the outdoors (climbing & backpacking), meditation, and playing soccer. Next fall I will be beginning my PhD in Education at Harvard University.
I am a rising sophomore at Harvard College and am about to declare as a Mechanical Engineering concentrator, working towards a Bachelor of Science degree. I've always enjoyed sharing my knowledge with my peers and those around me and have done so in both formal and informal settings. I've been a tutor for both Math and Spanish programs in high school and enjoyed the strides I made with students. I am willing to tutor any subject I have a background in, but am strong in mathematics, the sciences, Spanish, history, writing, and ACT prep. I enjoy teaching mathematics most due to the joy I can see in children once they master a topic and can answer even pointed questions meant to stump them, and maybe even put their knowledge to real world use. As a tutor, I like to give a strong foundation to orient my student, and then gradually grant them more freedom and independence until they can feel themselves grasp the concept, pointing out pitfalls or common errors along the way; teachers who used these methods on me always left the most lasting impressions. Outside of my studies, I really enjoy listening to music, both old favorites and new interests, reading classics, and gaming/playing basketball with my friends.
I am proud to be a part of Varsity Tutors! I am originally from San Antonio, TX; I completed my undergraduate education at Rice University in Houston where I received a bachelor's degree in Biochemistry and Cell Biology. Currently, I am in my second year of medical school at Baylor College of Medicine.
I am a graduate of Washington University in St Louis, where I received my Bachelor of Arts in History with minors in Humanities and Anthropology. Since graduation, I have worked as a tutor, teacher, and director of tutors at a charter public middle school in Boston. During this time I also received my Masters in Mild to Moderate Disabilities from Simmons College. I have worked extensively with students with a range of abilities, including students with specific learning disabilities, emotional impairments, dyslexia, and ADHD. My teaching experience has given me a deep understanding of the knowledge and habits essential to academic success and has given me the opportunity to hone a variety of strategies that ensure students at each level can achieve their academic goals. While I tutor a broad range of subjects, my favorite ones are Reading, Elementary/Middle School Math, History, and Test Prep. In my experience, tutoring is the most rewarding when a student has that "aha!" moment and achieves a new level of understanding and confidence in his/her abilities. I am a firm believer in the transformative power of education, and I see my role to be that of a facilitator and coach who is there to help the student reach his/her goals through individualized support and rigorous practice. In my free time, I enjoy reading, running, practicing my Spanish, and discovering new music. I am also an avid traveler and just got back from a 3 month trip to South America. I look forward to the opportunity to work with you!
I am a junior Mechanical Engineering major at Yale, and I hope to become a Naval Aviator after college. I am also a varsity sailor, and enjoy playing music with friends when I can get some free time. I have been tutoring my fellow students throughout my entire academic career, and I would best describe my tutoring style as one that adapts to each students' needs. For example, I have always tried to frame questions in a different way so that the student can better understand the question. Some students need visual representations of numbers and systems to understand them, and others benefit more by understanding the concepts behind each formula. I prefer to tutor in math and physics, and especially with real world application problems. I hope to help students improve their standardized test scores and their understanding of the math and sciences so that they can achieve their academic goals!
I'm Solange - a recent graduate from Harvard where I studied Sociology & Women's Studies. I've been tutoring for eight years now, and have worked with a wide range of ages and in a wide range of subjects. Some of my specialties are college prep/test taking II worked in the admissions office on campus); social sciences; and literature/writing.
I am an aspiring applied mathematician, with particular interest in image processing and climate science. I graduated in May 2017 from Washington University in St. Louis with a bachelor's in physics and mathematics, and am beginning a PhD program in September 2017 at the University of Chicago in Computational and Applied Mathematics. I've tutored introductory physics students for three years and enjoyed it thoroughly, as a chance to help other students while revisiting fundamental concepts to enhance my own knowledge. I'm eager to continue reaching out and helping students of math and physics to succeed and, furthermore, to appreciate the beauty and power of these subjects.
I am excited to be home and help fellow straphangers on their educational paths! My largest wealth of tutoring experience is in foreign languages--particularly French--but I also feel very comfortable editing essays of any kind and working through standardized test concepts. My availability is extremely flexible, and anywhere in New York City works for me. I look forward to working with you.
I am currently attending Johns Hopkins University, pursuing a dual degree in Computer Science and Applied Math and Statistics. I love helping students and I love the feeling I get knowing that I was able to use my knowledge to make someone else happier. My favorite subject to teach is math because there are so many ways to learn it and if one way does not help I can use another. I used to teach taekwondo and interacted with all kinds of students, and I'm excited to help out more!
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Students often find it difficult to move beyond Western psychological frameworks and genuinely understand how Indigenous worldviews fundamentally reshape psychological theory. Key challenges include grasping holistic approaches to mental health (where individual psychology is inseparable from community and environment), understanding the role of spirituality and cultural practices as legitimate psychological interventions rather than supplementary elements, and recognizing how colonialism and historical trauma operate as ongoing psychological forces—not just historical context. Many students also struggle to critically evaluate Western psychology's assumptions about universality while learning to identify culturally-specific expressions of psychological concepts like resilience, identity, and healing.
Indigenous psychology research often prioritizes community-based participatory methods, qualitative approaches, and collaborative knowledge production rather than the controlled experimental designs emphasized in Western psychology. Students need to understand why methodological choices like storytelling, oral history, and community consultation aren't just "alternative" methods but are epistemologically grounded in Indigenous ways of knowing. A key challenge is learning to critique Western experimental design's limitations—such as its inability to capture relational and contextual factors central to Indigenous understanding—while also understanding how to design rigorous, culturally-appropriate research that doesn't extract knowledge from communities. Tutoring helps students move beyond seeing these as competing approaches to recognizing them as fundamentally different frameworks for understanding human behavior.
Strong application requires moving beyond surface-level references and demonstrating how Indigenous psychological frameworks actually reframe a problem. For example, rather than analyzing mental health outcomes through a deficit lens (what's wrong with this person), Indigenous psychology asks how historical trauma, cultural disconnection, and systemic oppression shape wellbeing, and what community-based and culturally-grounded healing looks like. Effective essays show how concepts like cultural identity, collective healing, and land-based practices function as psychological mechanisms, not just cultural values. Tutoring helps you construct evidence-based arguments that ground these applications in specific Indigenous communities' practices and research, avoiding generalizations while maintaining analytical rigor.
In Indigenous psychology, colonialism isn't background information—it's a fundamental psychological force that shapes identity formation, mental health, intergenerational trauma, and community resilience. Students often struggle to analyze this analytically rather than descriptively, moving beyond "colonialism caused harm" to examining specific psychological mechanisms like cultural erasure's impact on self-concept, how land dispossession affects psychological wellbeing, or how reclaiming Indigenous languages facilitates healing. Strong analytical writing distinguishes between individual trauma responses and collective/intergenerational patterns, and examines how decolonization itself becomes a psychological process. Tutoring helps you develop frameworks for discussing these interconnected concepts with precision while maintaining the critical perspective that Indigenous psychology demands.
A critical skill in Indigenous psychology is recognizing that there is no monolithic "Indigenous psychology"—frameworks, healing practices, and psychological concepts vary significantly across different Indigenous nations, regions, and contexts. Students often overgeneralize by treating Indigenous perspectives as a single category or applying one community's approaches to another. Strong writing specifies which Indigenous communities or nations are being discussed, grounds arguments in particular cultural contexts, and acknowledges when you're drawing from general principles versus community-specific practices. Tutoring focuses on helping you develop the analytical habit of asking "whose knowledge am I drawing from?" and "is this universalizable or context-specific?" so your arguments remain rigorous and respectful of Indigenous diversity.
Indigenous psychology requires sophisticated critique: recognizing that Western psychology's universal claims, individualistic focus, and pathologizing of cultural practices represent specific cultural assumptions rather than objective truth—while also acknowledging that some Western psychological research and concepts can be valuable when understood within their proper scope. Students often swing between uncritically accepting Western frameworks or rejecting them wholesale, rather than developing nuanced analysis. Effective writing identifies specific limitations (e.g., how diagnostic criteria like DSM categories reflect Western cultural values) and shows how Indigenous frameworks address gaps or offer alternative explanations. Tutoring helps you construct arguments that demonstrate deep understanding of both traditions, allowing you to make specific, evidence-based critiques rather than general dismissals.
This is a nuanced epistemological question: Indigenous healing practices (like ceremony, plant medicine, land-based practices, or community healing) function simultaneously as psychological interventions, cultural knowledge systems, and lived experiences—not fitting neatly into Western categories of "data" or "anecdotal evidence." Students struggle with how to discuss these practices with analytical rigor without reducing them to case studies or treating them as less legitimate than lab-based research. Strong Indigenous psychology writing recognizes that these practices embody psychological theories about healing, community, and wellbeing that are supported by both community knowledge and emerging empirical research. Tutoring helps you develop language and frameworks for discussing these practices as sophisticated psychological knowledge systems while grounding your arguments in specific examples and research.
Mainstream developmental psychology (like Erikson or Marcia) typically frames identity as an individual psychological achievement, often emphasizing autonomy and independence. Indigenous psychology reframes identity development as fundamentally relational—shaped by family, community, land, and cultural continuity—and recognizes that identity formation for Indigenous people includes navigating colonialism, reclaiming cultural heritage, and connecting to ancestral knowledge. Students need to understand how concepts like cultural identity, belonging, and intergenerational connection function as psychological needs rather than optional cultural elements. Additionally, Indigenous psychology examines how disconnection from culture, language, and land creates specific psychological challenges, making cultural reconnection a core healing and developmental process. Tutoring helps you analyze identity development through this relational, culturally-grounded lens while engaging critically with Western developmental theories.
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