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Daniel S.
Private tutor in Los Angeles, CA
Education
Bachelor of the Arts in Music with honors at Yale University, with a focus in music cognition and composition.
Experience
Over the past five years I have instructed students both privately and in classroom settings on reading, writing, and several styles of music theory and performance. I have privately tutored learning disabled kids of all ages, working every day with students as they progressed from being unable to write their own names to reading short novels. This experience taught me how to work well with students of differing ages, personalities, and learning styles; and impressed upon me the importance of patience and creativity in my teaching approach. I have also taught musical theory and performance to teenagers and adults, an experience that taught me that a rigorous and technically concise curriculum is required for teaching something even as spontaneous as music. Over my time at Yale, I took numerous courses in linguistics, neural and cognitive science, music, English, and quantitative reasoning. Through my coursework I gained extensive knowledge about how people learn and integrate new information into existing mental frameworks. This knowledge, combined with my experience teaching and music directing, has led me to the conclusion that a good teacher is both technically thorough yet intuitively flexible. Through these experiences I have also developed a love for teaching. Cultivating a personal relationship with students and watching them and myself grow over time is an incredibly rewarding process, no matter what it is we are studying. I have also had extensive experience as a leader and music director. I am currently music directing a show on Off Broadway, and I spent my fourth year at Yale leading the Yale Whiffenpoofs on a two hundred performance tour across twenty-six countries. I work part-time as a published songwriter, and I can be found most evenings pounding out melodies and lyrics at a piano.
Subject Expertise
10th Grade, 1st Grade, 1st Grade math, 1st Grade Reading, 1st Grade Writing, 2nd Grade, 2nd Grade math, 2nd Grade Reading, 2nd Grade Writing, 3rd Grade, 3rd Grade math, 3rd Grade Reading, 3rd Grade Science, 3rd Grade Writing, 4th Grade, 4th Grade math, 4th Grade Reading, 4th Grade Science, 4th Grade Writing, 5th Grade, 5th Grade math, 5th Grade Reading, 5th Grade Science, 5th Grade Writing, 6th Grade, 6th Grade math, 6th Grade Reading, 6th Grade Science, 6th Grade Writing, 7th Grade, 7th Grade math, 7th Grade Reading, 7th Grade Science, 7th Grade Writing, 8th Grade, 8th Grade math, 8th Grade Reading, 8th Grade Science, 8th Grade Writing, 9th Grade, 9th Grade math, 9th Grade Reading, 9th Grade Writing, ACT, ACT English, ACT Reading, ACT with Writing, ACT Writing, ADD, ADHD, Algebra 1, Algebra 2, Algebra 3/4, American Literature, AP English Language and Composition, AP English Literature and Composition, AP European History, AP Music Theory, Biology, College Essays, Creative Writing, Dyslexia, English, Geometry, Gifted, Languages, Linguistics, Literature, Middle School, Middle School Math, Music, Music Theory, Neurobiology, Neuroscience, Organization, Piano, Poetry Writing, Psychology, Reading, SAT, SAT Critical Reading, SAT Math, SAT Mathematics, SAT Subject Test in Biology E/M, SAT Subject Test in Literature, SAT Subject Test in Mathematics Level 1, SAT Subject Test in Mathematics Level 2, SAT Verbal, SAT Writing, Science, Science, Short Novel, Singing, Social Sciences, Social Studies, Sociology, Special Education, Summer Tutoring, Trigonometry, Voice, Writing