What led you to become a part-time physics tutor and join this forum?

[Scott Redmond]

Hi Everyone,

I'm new to the forum, but not new to physics. My education background is in engineering, but I also taught pre-university physics for 3 1/2 years before dropping back from full-time employment to focus on being a work-at-home dad. I started a private physics tutoring company in December 2014, and have found that working part-time is fantastic for family life and still gives me a chance to work with students. I'm joining this forum to keep helping students - especially between semesters when tutoring gets relatively quiet - and to keep learning myself, since I found that I learned a bit more with each year that I was teaching. This forum seems to be very well organized and I look forward to contributing myself.

Scott

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

Welcome to PF!

 

[Scott Redmond]

Thanks! Is it okay for me to use my website logo as my avatar? Although in general I like to advertise my site, it's more important for me to respect the integrity of this forum.

I was trying to figure out how to reply to your welcome message directly, and replying here is easier.

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

Is it okay for me to use my website logo as my avatar? Although in general I like to advertise my site, it's more important for me to respect the integrity of this forum.

No problem. If you're an asset to the community, then you deserve the right to a little self promotion :)

 

[berkeman]

Welcome Scott

Here is a thread that will help you understand some of our Homework Help philosophy:

https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/homework-coursework-questions.373889/

And we really emphasize helping students learn how to learn here. So we ask a lot of probing questions, give hints, find errors, etc. But the student needs to end up doing the bulk of the work on their schoolwork questions. Great to have you helping out!

 

[Scott Redmond]

Hi Berkeman,

Thanks for the info. I just read it and it is quite helpful!

I'd also like to thank you for taking quick action and deleting my post. I was toying with LaTeX notation yesterday and posted accidentally when I hit "Enter" and then felt pressure to edit it immediately even though I was running out of time... I felt bad when I saw your message in my email later, but didn't have a chance to log in again until this morning.

Scott