Our Services

Currently, all services are being conducted virtually using Zoom and/or Discord

How It Works

• Overcoming Barriers

  Organic chemistry is a complicated and nuanced field of study. To properly teach organic chemistry, professors and lecturers must condense the materials and are forced to leave out certain details for the sake of brevity. If professors were to teach students organic chemistry in its entirety, the course would consist of several more credit hours and become a multi-semester prerequisite. In this scenario, a series of expanded courses would only begin to give students a comprehensive scope of organic chemistry. Consequently, professors must condense the topics and subjectively decide what to teach in order to limit the complexity of the class materials. This harsh reality means that each organic chemistry class is highly variable in which specific materials are taught and summarized. Talon Tutors has a comprehensive understanding of organic chemistry and the real world applications of the course materials. This does raise some difficulty in streamlining the tutoring process to give the student the best and most applicable services.

  It is highly advantageous for the student to send several examples of class materials to Talon Tutors before beginning formal tutoring sessions. We will look over the material as quickly and as thoroughly as possible to get a proper understanding of the format, concepts, and specific details of each class. This allows us to provide the best services possible. This process is entirely up to the student and how comfortable they are with sharing their class materials. It is not mandatory to provide any class materials to give Talon Tutors greater insight into the specific details of each class, but it does improve the efficiency of each tutoring session and allows for the student to master more materials and concepts in each given session. Any data shared with Talon Tutors is confidential and will never be shared with a third party.

• Flexibility In Tutoring Preferences

  At Talon Tutors, we understand that the comfort of the student is vital to gaining a proper understanding of organic chemistry and integral to the learning process. Therefore, we are very flexible in the manor in which students prefer to receive tutoring. The privacy of the student is very important to Talon Tutors and we respect the student’s right to anonymity if they so choose. Normally, tutoring sessions are conducted via virtual conference calls using Zoom: with voice, video, and screen-sharing enabled. This method allows for the utmost expediency in communication and therefore makes tutoring sessions the most efficient and successful. However, we do not require students to enable their own webcams or computer microphones if they do not feel comfortable. We respect this and allow the student to decide which methods they feel most comfortable with regarding receiving tutoring services. Chat features can be used if the student does not feel comfortable enabling their microphone. However, this method makes it more difficult to quickly articulate concepts or specific questions that the student has. Nevertheless, this method is successful, but it is slightly slower than voice chat, which enables fluent conversation and the ability to quickly maneuver through the class materials and content. These preferences are up the the individual student and we respect the student’s right to privacy and anonymity.

• Best Practices

  For most tutoring sessions, Talon Tutors prefers that students email specific documents, such as problems sets and specific questions, 24 hours in advance of the tutoring session. This gives Talon Tutors time to go over the materials and to provide in-depth explanations of the nuances of each problem/concept. This maximizes our ability to teach students the methodologies and tactics to become highly proficient in solving problems and understanding the class materials. We can also prepare a ChemDraw document containing specific reaction schemes, detailed arrow pushing mechanisms, and graphical representations. This is highly advantageous to the student, as we can screen share a document with all of the specific questions/problems that the student requested assistance for and work through problems in real time, make changes, and produce unique visual representations of chemical structures. This process aids in improving the student’s ability to visualize three-dimensional chemical structures and spacial awareness: key skills to succeed in organic chemistry classes. After each tutoring session, the student may get a digital copy of the document containing all the work conducted in the session for future reference. Students may also record each tutoring session so they may replay it at a later time and have full access to the details of everything covered during the session. With this approach, students can enter a tutoring session with the guarantee that they will get the most out of every moment of the tutoring session. This approach is what makes Talon Tutors a cut above the rest!