Tim
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10+ years of tutoring

Tim

Bachelors, Philosophy Skidmore College
Current Grad Student, Philosophy The New School for Social Research
  • Having grown up in NJ and gone to high school at The Collegiate School in NYC, I'm well acquainted with many of the schools in the area.

Test Scores

SAT ScoresPerfect Score
Composite1540
Math740
Verbal710
Writing800
GRE ScoresPerfect Score
Verbal170
Graduate Admissions
LSAT167

About Me

I attended Skidmore College as an undergraduate, where I studied the intersections of philosophy, government, religion, and history. Skidmore was also where I began to gain formal experience working with young students, specifically by working as a Classroom Assistant. After graduating from Skidmore with honors, I began to work on my MA at The New School for Social Research, where I am focusing on Ancient, Modern, and Contemporary political, legal, and moral philosophy. While at graduate school I have begun to tutor a number of students, many of whom I have now been working with for over a year. My greatest assets as a tutor lie in my mastery of the english language, skills in logic and conceptual organization, and versatile ability to explain to students complex ideas with which they find themselves frustrated and struggling. My goal is to restore students to a thoroughly self-sufficient status in their academic endeavors, an aim which pursue by focusing on the identification of students' advantages and disadvantages, and attempting to develop a unique plan for each student as to how we might capitalize on their strengths so as to neutralize their difficulties. I can be flexible about hours, and would be happy to receive email inquiries from any interested parents or students.

Hobbies & Interests

Philosophy, Shakespeare, Biking, and Star Wars

Education

Bachelors, Philosophy - Skidmore College
Current Grad Student, Philosophy - The New School for Social Research

Q&A with Tim

Philosophy was originally defined as the love of wisdom. This in mind, the philosophy teacher's primary objective must always be to cultivate a passionate fascination with the world's mysteries, and an appreciation for the subtleties and technical complexities from which our experience with the world derives. A student invested with these qualities, regardless of the content of their particular beliefs, becomes a philosopher. How can you help a student become an independent learner? Students will become independent only once they have both the means and the motivation to complete their work without external support. This requires not only that the tutor help the student remain confident yet ambitious, but also that the tutor acquaint the student with all the resources and skills by which the student might operate independently and pursue his or her own interests in the absence of any supervision. If a student has difficulty learning a skill or concept, what would you do?
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