Passionate biologist (PhD) with 35 years experience in academia and consulting teaching university and college biology, ecology, field biology conservation and environmental science

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RATES RATIONALE
Posted rates consider the breadth and depth of my teaching experience at the university/college levels at seven universities in the United States and Canada. As your tutor, I am responsible for developing a personalized teaching methodology and learning experience, provision of content (supplementing student course material, as needed), curating personalized lesson plans that meet student needs and scheduling our weekly tutoring sessions together to best meet your learning outcomes. I provide my own office space and computer equipment/supplies. Tutoring sessions are usually one (1) hour in duration, unless requested otherwise. Hourly rates also apply to time required for preparation, reviewing/editing student work and quiz/exam preparatory studying (as requested by student), creating lesson plans and communications. I maintain an hours/payment log in Google Sheets that is made available to you for monitoring.

Tutoring may be provided remotely (eg Superprof’s virtual classroom “Pencil Spaces” or the Google Meet ecosystem) or in-person. If tutoring is preferred at a student’s home, there is no travel fee if within 10km of Barrie. For safety reasons, I do not provide transportation for students.

TUTORING BUDGET AND PAYMENT SCHEDULE
Students' needs regarding the level and frequency of tutoring can vary. As such, your tutoring budget and payment scheduling can be discussed on an individual basis as part of the FREE first one (1) hour session. Typically, I provide each student with a weekly email-style invoice summarizing the time invested to prepare for and deliver a given week’s tutoring session(s). Payment is required within 24 hours of completing a given week’s tutoring session and before the following week’s preparation. If there are two or three students requesting tutoring in the same subject area and topics, there MAY be opportunity to reduce the hourly rate if the students are comfortable with small group tutoring (as opposed to one to one).

CANCELLATION POLICY
If I cancel a tutoring session less than 24 hours of when it is scheduled to begin and we are unable to reschedule, your next tutoring session will be free (family emergency or illness excepted). I have never cancelled a tutoring session for any reason other than illness. If a student cancels a tutoring session less than 24 hours of when the session is scheduled to begin (and we are unable to reschedule) or does not attend a session, payment for the cancelled/unattended session is still required that week (family emergency or illness excepted).