MTA Tutor of the Year

Muskegon Community College student David Vincent has received the prestigious “2009 Tutor of the Year” Award from the Michigan Tutorial Association (MTA). David will receive a monetary prize, a plaque, and be honored at the 27^th MTA Connections Conference.

Kathryn Schrader, Tutoring & SI Supervisor at MCC, was one of David’s nominators, and fans. “I’m sometimes amazed at the energy that some young people have,” she says, “and David is one of those people.”

David has tutored math at MCC since 2007, when he first started at MCC, and according to Schrader, has an “uncanny” ability to relate to people, and ease their math anxieties with his sense of humor. “He knew just what to say and just when to say it to elicit the response that he was looking for,” said Schrader. “Each semester students seemed to gravitate to him just for that reason.”

David has done one-on-one tutoring, online tutoring, volunteer tutoring with Upward Bound, Supplemental Instruction at MCC, is a member of MTA, a volunteer wrestling coach at his former Newaygo high school, and. a member of MCC’s Phi Theta Kappa Chapter. David is transferring to Ferris State University in the fall, where he plans to major in Math Education.

“I’m always happy to see my students go into education,” said Schrader. “My loss is their gain.”