An ever-creative mind born to discover and learn all the ways I can get all these ideas out of my mind an into the real world. Professional Creative ready to spark some inspiration into someone's mind.
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...in university, I tutored local elementary school students for the "America Reads" program and adults preparing for their GED examinations. One summer I also worked as an assistant teacher and after school tutor for middle and high school students in Tomepampa, a beautiful small town in the Peruvian Andes. My favorite subjects to teach are literature, writing, and history. I care about helping my students not only improve their grades, but also to develop a...
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I believe that learning is a truly individual experience, and that tutoring gives students the opportunity to learn and incorporate information in fresh, personal ways. I have considerable experience working with students of all ages, from K-12 to second-careers. I bring a broad humanities education, having done a liberal-arts Bachelors at the prestigious College of William & Mary, "the alma mater of the nation," and recently graduated with my Masters from Princeton Theological Seminary.
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...near San Jose, California. I recently graduated the University of Wisconsin, Madison with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Biology. I am currently pre-med, taking a few gap years off before I start medical school. While I am not a full-time teacher, I have had experience tutoring student-athletes here at UW. I love all aspects of teaching, not only making sure that you understand the material but also developing a process of getting where you...
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I am a graduate of Kent State University, where I received my Bachelor of Science in Speech Pathology and Audiology. I tutor a variety of subjects, with a passion for social studies, humanities, and English, including ESL. I believe education is the door to some of life's most rewarding opportunities, and my goal as a tutor is to help my students unlock their potentials, and to help equip them to be lifelong learners.
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...School credits in Religious Studies. My intention was to continue forward and earn additional Master degrees in both the Ethics & Applied Philosophy as well as Religious Studies programs, but some events in life "forced" me to withdraw. I was a community college instructor/professor for fifteen years. I can teach/tutor a wide array of subjects as my educational and teaching backgrounds are interdisciplinary. My educational philosophy is similar to that found in the various schools...
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...I figured out how their words worked I fell in love with the language! Now, I know that you are looking for the right person to teach you the German language... I have a ton of background in languages. I have taken Spanish, French, Russian, Swedish, Old English and Middle English before, along with German. I try to speak each of them or read some sort of material within them every month. However, I have...
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...preach to them: enter relationships with a growth mindset rather than a deficit perspective, bring students' own funds of knowledge into activities (whether that knowledge involves all the statistics of their favorite sports team or how to read a subway map), and keep lessons fun. I have found these priorities also work well with tutoring teens and young adults. My bachelor's is in Anthropology (with a minor in English). That, along with my international travel,...
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...B.A. in Linguistics and History. Currently I am a M.A./Ph.D student in Linguistics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. My current research deals with how language is used and how understanding can change in differing contexts, for example how people define what counts as a lie, and how our brains process emojis. At the University of Illinois, I've taught several linguistics courses, including the popular Linguistics 100 introductory course. I spent a semester abroad...
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Hello, my name is Grant Savage, and I have been teaching for 2 years. I hold a Master's degree in education and a Bachelor's degree in literary studies. My passion for teaching stems from my own challenging high school experience. I strive to be the supportive and inspiring teacher that I never had. My goal is to create a positive and engaging learning environment where every student feels valued and motivated to succeed.
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...in Linguistics, Spanish and World language education with minors in TESOL and Korean. I have tutored within my highschool honor societies for different ages and levels. I have also been a part of my highschool ESL program and am currently instructing an ESL and Spanish class in my university. I have a passion for language acquisition and teaching. Given my background in Linguistics, I have a deep understanding on how to convey and interpret language....
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...philosophy and theology, as well as two minors in Medieval Studies and Classics. I have nearly life-long experience as an educator, particularly though to my current position as an museum educator at the Hudson River Museum. Additionally, I have a rigorous background in English language and composition, in addition to research and academic writing. In order to make these subjects accessible to my students, I break down the process and fundamentals of the subject matter....
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...for all students. I am excited to share my educational experience and learn new ways to aid all learners in growing and developing their academic goals. My philosophy of education is centered around all students being learners! Teaching ELAR advanced, and test prep courses are my passions. Hearing the excitement in a student's voice or the smile on one's face after understanding a new or challenging concept drives me to continue to support students in...
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...Science, History, Geography and Psychology. My favorite subjects to tutor is history because it is interesting and gives me an appreciation in the time period that I am living in, in certain hardships that I didn't have to deal with that people had to deal with in past time periods. It gives me appreciation of what I have and helps me in not behaving and thinking a certain way that people behaved in past time...
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...at Loyola University Chicago, with an expected graduation with Magna Cum Laude honors in the Spring of 2025. Through my own academic career, my passion for learning has grown immensely, especially in the fields of biology, chemistry, English, and Spanish. Additionally, I'm very passionate about singing, and I participate in a pre-professional level choir at my university. I am thrilled by the opportunity to help students of various age groups gain essential skills and deeper...
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...practice USING the language to share your ideas: real communication. That's how you master it! Confucius said it best: "I hear and I forget, I see and I remember, I do and I understand." Just hearing a lesson, it usually fades; seeing, it might stick, but doing it? That's when it sinks in. MY JOB? I will create sessions in which you experience using English correctly, you understand how its parts work together to create...
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...Linguistics from the University of California, Santa Cruz. I also hold a certificate in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) from the University of California, Santa Barbara. I have experience tutoring ESL privately in Brazil and through Skype. I also have experience tutoring Spanish and the clarinet. I tutor many aspects of English including reading, writing, test prep, literature, grammar, and essay editing. I also tutor any level of Spanish, including test prep...
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...Language and Communication, a diploma in Education and Training and a Master's Degree in Educational Leadership. Over the years, I have also received honors for outstanding academic performance in education. Throughout my teaching career, I have been driven by commitment to create a learning environment that fosters creativity, curiosity, and inclusivity. I believe that effective teaching is not just about conveying information but also about building relationships, challenging assumptions, and promoting social-emotional growth.
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I started as an English teacher in 2004: I've worked in different types of school (from kindergarten, elementary school and university), also with different English levels (from true beginners to advance) all of these in Nuevo Laredo and Guanajuato (Mexico). I enjoy teaching and being in my classroom with my students, but also I'm always learning something new. New technology, culture, language, you name it!
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Linguistics is the scientific study of language and its structure, including the study of morphology, syntax, phonetics, and semantics. It can be a challenging course that systematizes and decontextualizes familiar elements of language, often making them seem very unfamiliar. The subject can become overwhelming very quickly, especially if you are suddenly required to discuss aspects of the language that you have never considered in their own right before, like verb transitivity. In linguistics, transitivity is a property of verbs that determines if a verb can take direct objects and how many objects a verb can take.
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Every student has different concerns in linguistics, and your class curriculum may stress certain aspects of the subject more than others. Your tutor can design a lesson plan that's specific to your needs and concerns to make your linguistics tutoring as efficient, rewarding, and enriching as possible. Whether you are encountering difficulties conceptualizing the difference between syntax and semantics, forgetting what makes a grammar rule prescriptive or descriptive, or you simply find yourself intellectually entangled in the intricacies of parse trees, your tutor is there to help. So that you learn the maximum material, you do not need to review concepts you already understand as you have fully grasped this content. However, you are free to move on to new concepts and theories as soon as you feel you have mastered the content at hand.
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Recent Halifax Linguistics Tutoring Session Notes
Before we started this class, we had a little quiz on the vocabulary we have covered in last few classes. The student studied a lot at home. Thus I asked him to memorize just one page at one time and we will test it again next class. Then I introduced different sentence types, such as questions and negations, we will finish the sentences next class, then the rest of the time we will intensively practice what we have learned in class.
The student has a test tomorrow, so we went over the vocabulary for the test by playing Simon Says and practicing having conversations. He did really well and is well prepared for his test. I also went over the etymology of some of the characters to help him develop tricks for memorizing the characters. We talked about the three functions that a radical can play in a character (tell you what it sounds like, tell you what it means, do nothing) and practiced identifying the parts of characters.
The main two phrases we learned of today were "different" and "same". We learned different colors, different numbers, different animals and different shapes. We used different color to draw same animals on the paper and we used same colors to draw different shapes on the paper. A series of drawing activities like these gave us opportunities to say them in Chinese again and again. The student is smart and has an amazing memory.
Today we went through two sets of vocabulary from the student's school work, one was about the animals and the other was from previous vocabulary for reviewing. He learned and memorized the animals vocabulary very well and also we practiced the adjective, cute, by telling which animals were cute or not. And I also explained three characters that look alike as he couldn't differentiate them at the beginning.
The student learned a new lesson today, and she did really well. She did 65% of the reading on her own as well as she learned to write a few new Chinese characters.
The student and I went over the previous session's dialogue on date and time, and then we went over a new dialogue involving hobbies. We also reviewed basic sentence structures and various modifications of sentence structure, and we practiced a few grammar drills.
