Jude

My name is Jude and I am a resident of Snohomish County, Washington, with around a decade of junior high and above mathematics experience. I am also a physics major at my university and have around 5 years of experience in the field. I have a great passion for working with students and am strongly committed to supporting them through their academic struggles. I sympathize with every student having math and physics difficulties, as I, too, was in that same position. Yet with the right teachers who taught with the intent to inspire, these subjects have become passions of mine. For me, the best part about being a tutor is seeing the lightbulbs go off. I believe that many tutors rush through lessons with the intent to supply information. Yet getting to see my students improve and develop enthusiasm for math and physics is what really makes my day. Building confidence and passion is what tutoring should really be about. I am dedicated to encouraging those around me and want all of my students to become successful. To be adept in physics requires not natural talent but the right educator. I am eager to support you in your physics journey.

Willing to travel: 30 miles

Experience: I am a physics and mathematics tutor who has experience in working with both high school and undergraduate students. I have over two years of mathematics and physics tutoring experience at the high school and college level, one of which was at my college’s Quantitative Success Center (QSC) helping students reach their highest potential. I am proficient in a wide variety of physics topics ranging from introductory mechanics and waves to upper-division electromagnetic theory and optics. I am also well-versed in mathematics topics up to and including Ordinary and Partial Differential Equations. I am very passionate about the field and spend the majority of my spare time creating and solving challenging physics problems.

At the QSC, I integrated a "listen to learn" approach into my tutoring sessions where the majority of my lessons involved listening with the intent to help my students. When I explained concepts to students, I asked them questions that would help them reason through the problem they were attempting. I do not believe in "jumping straight to the answer" as this only marred my students` confidence in their skills. I also believe that teaching information in small portions ultimately prompts a higher level of understanding. I have used a wide variety of resources as a peer tutor, including white board space, math and physics computer technology (including ALEKS, Desmos and Khan Academy), and table settings to discuss material.