Award-Winning ACT Writing Tutors in Shreveport, LA

...the 12th grade level. I made a perfect score on the English portion of my 8th grade exit exam, and in high school, I completed all of my required college English courses. I have never made below an A in an English course. I believe that students are able to achieve anything that they work...

...Neuroscience, where the bulk of my work, including my senior honors thesis, concerned the adverse of effects of prenatal alcohol exposure on the developing hippocampal region of the brain. After graduating, I served a year, full time, as an Americorps member with City Year, tutoring and mentoring 7th and 8th grade students in the Englewood...

...environmentalism, etc. I have many varied interests, and philosop[hy informs each of them in interesting and important ways. It has also informed my teaching style, as I tend away from rote memorization and toward real-life integration. Most of my teaching experience is in ESL, but I have tutored students and fellow students in writing, English,...

...tutored on and off for two years, working with middle and high school students in both Chicago and Palo Alto. When it comes to learning, I strongly believe in the recent work of Stanford psychologist Carol Dweck showing the importance of having a growth mindset rather than a fixed one, in which students realize that...

...I love helping fellow students learn, and eventually reach that triumphant feeling, too. My tutoring experience spans a pretty wide range: from working at a local Kumon Learning Center where I helped kids between 4 and 18 years old with math and reading assignments, to dedicating two hours a week to tutoring a student with...

...help students be able to answer questions by themselves. I have a similar approach in English subjects, where it is very important to develop a thought process when thinking analytically about a piece of writing. Students will learn to recognize grammatical structure and parts of speech, as well as to recognize important literary terms and...

...teaching and working with students, as well as learning new things. I grew up in South America wandering ancient Inca ruins and the Andes and speak Spanish and English fluently. I spent just enough time in Colorado to earn a degree in economics, magna cum laude. Since then, I have been working in a variety...

...my lessons the psychology behind how we learn new concepts and thereby discover how to apply them appropriately. With both a tech and an artistic background, Im particularly interested in using technology to teach concepts in visual, interactive, and fun ways. Lately, when Im not working remotely as a CRM consultant or shooting photography, Ive...

...studied abroad in Madrid, where I had the opportunity to tutor privately and work as a TA in the English Applied Linguistics Department at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. While there, I discovered a passion for teaching. After graduation, I took a job at Antalya International University, where I worked as an English Instructor for...

...tutoring experience, having worked with kindergarten and second grade students as a reading tutor and middle school students as a math tutor. I am passionate about tutoring because of my own life long love of learning, and because I believe that all children are capable of accomplishing amazing things if they have a committed support...