john h.
Private tutor in Santa Monica, CA
Education
I am currently a Professor of Physics at Santa Monica College Education Graduate Schools Stanford University Graduate School of Business, MBA program, tested out of the first year course work. Scholarship awarded by McKinsey & Company Inc. Stanford University, Stanford CA. Masters and Doctorate Program in Experimental Astrophysics. Awarded full scholarship plus yearly stipend. Co-Author of 6 published academic articles. Doctoral Thesis: A Quantum Noise-limited Electronic Amplifier for Gravitational Radiation Observation through an Ultra-low Temperature Resonant Mass Detector. Advisor: Prof. P. F. Michelson. Served as the graduate representative on the Admissions Committee at Stanford for 5 years. Elected to the Academic Senate at Santa Monica College for 10 years, serving for 2 years as the Chair of the Senate’s Executive Committee for Adjunct Faculty. Undergraduate University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA; Major in Physics with Minors in Math and Economics. Provost Honors awarded.
Experience
For the past twenty years, I have dedicated at least ten hours a week tutoring high school and college students. If you live on the west side, there is little chance that you do not have a friend or neighbor that I have tutored. My goal is to identify individual student’s gifts and strengths, and then show the students how to leverage their own talents, enabling them to develop their own specific study skills and work habits. This will lead to better grades and test scores in the short term, and transfer over to superior performance in the workplace in the long term as well. I am very familiar with the high schools and their curriculum. This enables me to individualize teaching techniques. Finding different approaches to bring out the strengths in a diversity of students has been instrumental in developing my teaching and tutoring methodology.
Subject Expertise
AP Physics 1TrigonometrySAT Subject Test in Mathematics Level 1SAT MathematicsPhysicsPre-CalculusGRE Subject Test in PhysicsElectromagnetismChemistryAP Physics 2: MechanicsAP Physics 2: Electricity and Magnetism10th Grade mathAP ChemistryAP Calculus ABAnalytical ChemistryACT Math12th Grade Writing12th Grade math11th Grade Writing11th Grade mathACT Science10th Grade Writing
Availability
Any day at any time, Any day after 11AM
Can Meet
Up to 20 minutes away for no additional charge
Hobbies
I’ve been playing volleyball for my entire life, both indoors and on the beach. I played at the NCAA level indoors and at the AAA level on the beach. I also enjoy art and architecture both historical and contemporary. International travel, musical theater, opera, cooking, tennis, surfing, skiing, and mountain biking.
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