Lowell Parker - All Level Tutoring

About Lowell Parker, Ph.D.

Top-level, professional tutoring requires depth and breadth of knowledge, the right personality, and adaptability.

Knowing a subject seems like an obvious requirement for a tutor, but surprisingly few tutors know the subjects they are tutoring well enough. Good tutoring, like good teaching, requires a depth of knowledge that allows the mentor to make connections between concepts and skills that appear unrelated to the student. In addition, it means having the ability to make complicated problems seem simple. These are what make a superb tutor worth the time and money.

With more than 25 years of teaching and tutoring experience, an interdisciplinary Ph.D. in chemical physics, and a minor in mathematics, I am able to tutor all levels of math and science with the ability to make the connections and simplify the complex.

Without the right personality, all the knowledge in the world will not allow you to teach students what they need to know. A great tutor is someone with patience, a genuine love of the subject, and an innate desire to help people learn. While very few people have all three of these personality traits, I do, but not by accident. Both my parents were teachers, so I must have inherited "teaching genes" from my mother and father.

Every student is unique. Academic ability, personality, willingness to study, and number of competing interests and activities vary widely from one student to the next. A tutor who has a fixed agenda or blueprint for tutoring is ill-equipped for one-on-one mentoring. Flexibility with regard to how I interact with students is one of the important components of my tutoring.

When I'm at home with you or your children, you can relax. I am a member in good standing with the Better Business Bureau, on the faculty of Empire State College, and carry educators' professional liability insurance required for contract home tutoring when I am hired by local school districts.

For the above reasons, I have gained a reputation as the premier math and science tutor in the Tri-State area.