Certified Tutors From University of Tulsa

...and Granada,Spain. I offer not only specialized tutoring, but cultural insight as well. My work with diverse populations has honed my ability to recognize the needs of my students. My clients have ranged from middle and high school to adults wanting to learn Spanish for their own personal use. In addition to teaching, I tutored...

...purpose to doctoral dissertations, and I teach university World Literature courses as well. I enjoy teaching and tutoring in general, but I'm especially passionate about literature, writing, and ESL at all levels. I also enjoy helping students prepare for Standardized Tests, and we usually have the best results prepping for the Critical Reading and Writing...

...fluent in English and Spanish, both oral and written. I love sports (I was once a boxing commentator in Venezuela), and movies; Christopher Nolan, Ridley Scott and Matthew Vaughn are my favorite film directors, and I have seen all of their films. I always try to provide objective film reviews so you don't spend your...

...focus on critical points so as not to overwhelm the student. I enjoy using mnemonics and wordplay to help ease the burden of memorization that is so often affiliated with biology and I understand any frustration a student may have with the subject. I also have helped friends and siblings with essays of all types...

...recent student myself, I understand how the pressures of school can sometimes work against your innate curiosity. As a tutor, my goal is of course to help you maximize your success in school and standardized tests. But it's also (again, hopefully) to make room for curiosity, and to remind students, at least a little bit,...

...engineering, but through that help students learn valuable life skills and things that are discovered about oneself through the rigor of academic learning. When I am not studying or working, I enjoy many outdoor activities: running, climbing, hiking, and camping. I also greatly enjoy reading with one of my favorite genres being biographies. I find...

...Also, having experienced learning difficulties as a child (which were long ago rectified) forced me to become very skilled at developing personalized learning strategies. And having learned from experience how to elevate my own standardized test score from the 32nd percentile to the 85th percentile on the MCAT has been invaluable for teaching peers how...

...cooperation, critical thinking, passion, compassion, fun, and determination. As a tutor, it is my job to provide a safe, engaging, and challenging session to encourage each student's growth mentally, physically, emotionally, and socially. Every student is unique in abilities, learning style, and motivations. I will strive to provide each student with the tools necessary to...

...in the humanities - literature, linguistics, philosophy, history, cultural studies, the arts, entertainment, and so on. I believe that a rigorous education in the humanities is an oft-overlooked but essential component to one's life-long education as a human being. Language study facilitates the acquisition of the humanities in an especially holistic, stimulating, and flexible intellectual...

I want to help challenge and work with students to aid them in discovering talents and abilities they didn't know they had. I believe everyone is smart, and may just need a different style of coaching/teaching to help them to be successful! ... It is important to get to know the student's specific learning style. We try looking at a problem in multiple different ways, and I assess which field (whether audio, visual, tactile) the student...

...recent graduate from the University of Tulsa who has experience tutoring for several years. I believe in connecting classwork and real life to help further understand the concepts, such as demonstrations, or applications of the material learned. I love helping people out and figured tutoring would be a great way to do this.... Try different methods. As I said earlier, there are many ways to tackle a problem. If a student doesn't understand it one way,...

...earned my Master of Public Administration degree at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and took a position as a budget analyst for the Tennessee governor's office. I then returned to the University of Tennessee as a doctoral student and instructor, and earned my Ph.D. in political science in 1998. Since then, I served on the...

...I have taught Spanish and English as a Second Language for 23 years. I am bi-lingual and bi-cultural. My passion is tutoring and helping students one on one. My tutoring experience includes college Spanish, GED. and helping to edit papers. I have tutored all ages from Elementary to College. I love helping my students, and...

...Texas Christian University. I am majoring in Psychology with a minor in Business. I have been tutoring for the past 5 years. My personal teaching philosophy is to incorporate more hands-on and interactive tutoring rather than lecturing. My favorite subjects to tutor are history, english, and psychology. In my free time, I enjoy traveling and...

...my junior year at the University of Tulsa, on a pre-med track with a minor in Spanish. I have tutored extensively over the past 6 years with a variety of age groups, and helped kids prepare for the ACT for the last 4 years. I enjoy all subjects but am most passionate about math.

...Spanish. It came to me more naturally than I thought it would. I have taken four rigorous semesters of Spanish at Tula University and I really enjoyed them, and I hope to keep up with the language. Tutoring has helped me so much in the past whether it was just needing it to get past...

...I served as an academic tutor for high school students, serving mainly as an ACT prep coach and essay corrector. I am a certified English teacher in the state of Oklahoma, though I moved to Texas for a non-teaching job at Baylor Orthopedic and Spine Hospital. I'm a strong proponent of life-long learning, and I...

...public schools, a country day school, and a preparatory school. I try to harness the experience gained from those diverse environments to help individuals learn at different speeds with different resources. As a tech enthusiast I am always researching new uses for the latest technological innovations, and I love to incorporate new tech in teaching....

...internship in DC. While in Tulsa I studied to retake the LSAT for several months and improved by 12 points. I know from personal experience what it takes to improve your LSAT score. I will help you organize a study plan, avoid the mistakes I once made, and master the Logical Reasoning and Analytical reasoning...

...also qualified to tutor test prep, particularly ACT, SAT, and PSAT. In test prep sessions, I like to begin with one or more diagnostic tests and then create a plan for the remainder of our time together. It's always my goal to make the best use of your time, so I encourage students to tell...