Award-Winning ACT Tutors in Steger, IL

...split between the Arts and the Sciences. I recently graduated from Northern Illinois University with a Bachelors in Music, and although I now sing and play flute around the Chicagoland area, I simply couldn't resist also enrolling at Columbia College Chicago to pursue studies in Acoustics. At Northern, I tutored various subjects for two years...

...being spoon fed information. Certainly, sometimes they need a helping hand, and other times they need to be in an environment like tutoring where they are allowed to be wrong without penalty. Failure is a vital step of learning. Outside of tutoring, I play a variety of sports, though tennis is the only one I...

...helps students gain the skills and confidence necessary to achieve their ACT/SAT, ESL/ELL, TOEFL, and essay writing goals. After graduating from Washington University in St. Louis, I earned my Master's degree in English Literature at the University of Oregon. I taught freshman and sophomore argumentative writing courses at UO for two years before moving to...

...on understanding the main idea and purpose behind the material in order to eliminate memorization whenever possible. In particular, I enjoy teaching science because it fascinates me. Other areas that I tutor are : ACT preparation, math (through pre-calculus), English language and writing. I take pride in watching my students truly understand the material and...

...Since graduation I have worked as a research assistant at the American Bar Foundation, served as a private editing consultant for start-ups needing assistance with their business proposals and a writing coach for high schoolers and undergraduates working on admissions essays, and tutored high school equestrians and other world-class athletes through a private tutoring company....

...of Illinois at Chicago Honors College, where I am pursuing a Bachelor of Science in Bioengineering with a focus in cell and tissue engineering. During high school, I worked in the literacy center, where I tutored fellow classmates and helped them with any classes that they were having trouble with. I enjoy tutoring because I...

...is, I describe the pathway to understanding it so that it becomes as intuitive and clear as anything. This is a promise. I know the pitfalls and ambiguities which prevent people from understanding concepts in math and the sciences, and I know how to get around them. I explain every concept in straightforward and totally...

...a major in Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, a minor in English, and a language citation in Spanish. I love biology and in particular animal behavior, which is what I research: I will begin my PhD in the fall. I love fieldwork and I have studied in the rainforests of Mexico, Costa Rica, Panama, and the...

...English at Loyola University Chicago. I have an MFA in Creative Writing from Fairleigh Dickinson University, and a BA in Biblical and Theological Studies from Wheaton College. I've been tutoring for over three years, with the last year as a Graduate Tutor at the Writing Center at Loyola. I'm a grammar whiz as well as...

...that the subjects fun and relatable, explaining why students would want to know things and why topics are useful even if they do not pursue a carer in math or the hard sciences. In my free time I listen to a lot of music, and I play a variety of stringed and percussive instruments.