Award-Winning ACT Tutors in Brookfield, IL

...students in the Chicago area in Math and science and high school students in advanced Math, chemistry, writing, and helped them prepare for standardized tests for college admittance. I have also tutored adults preparing for academic proficiency tests for their jobs and with GRE prep for those interested in going to graduate school. Additionally I...

...through a customer service job at a big cell-phone company. I taught 5th grade in Chicago Public Schools, worked as a substitute teacher in CPS, and finally moved into a middle-school science and reading position in the northwest suburbs, where I recently began my 10th year as a classroom teacher. I love to teach, and...

...have practical experience using Spanish in a real-life setting and feel comfortable preparing students to use their Spanish in daily life or an academic setting. While Spanish is my primary subject, I also enjoy literature, English, and writing and have excelled in these subjects in my own academic experience. I currently tutor Spanish to fellow...

...handful of fish and plants. I am very nature oriented, which is why biochemistry drew me in. I also enjoy travel, art museums, and the theatre, especially the Chicago Shakes on Navy Pier. I spend a lot of time on fitness, whether it be playing sports, lifting, training, yoga, swimming, or meditation. It would be...

...grades and test scores after receiving my help. I like to tailor my teaching style to the individual student because I know that everyone has a different learning personality. I get to know my students and discover the reasons they struggle. Although many of my clients do not share my passion for science and biology,...

...master's, I taught English 101 at the university I was attending. Prior to this, I received teacher training from the same university. My favorite aspect of teaching was the one-on-one interactions I would have with my students when they came for conferences or office hours. I believe that an important part of teaching is taking...

...Rica, Panama, and the Peruvian Amazon. While I was at Harvard I worked as a peer tutor for biology, chemistry, physics, and Spanish courses; I also taught health education workshop to Boston area high school students. When I am tutoring I feel it is important to both demonstrate problem-solving techniques and then guide students to...

...strength lies in their community engagement. It's fascinating to me that we now live in an age where people from around the world can come together through the internet and share a love of something, and then directly contribute to the creation of that thing. In a really beautiful way, the internet is bringing people...

...is when they finally understand something they had been struggling with. Especially with math, many students believe that they are not good at it and will never understand, but I do not believe that is ever true. Not all math will be necessary in our day to day lives, but math builds logic skills and...

...subjects for two years and grew to love the act of teaching and sharing knowledge. I especially enjoy working on test prep, mathematics and writing as these are, from my point of view, the essential skills towards navigating today's world. I also have extensive background in the higher levels of music theory, which I'm always...