...El Salvador in Peru, and finally my university's Center for Academic Success, where I tutored at the collegiate level. Each experience was completely unique and shaped me into the tutor and person that I am today. Reading Partners taught me how to adapt a given curriculum to an individual student's goals and needs. Villa El Salvador taught me how to connect with students from a completely different linguistic and cultural background. Finally, Chapman University's Center...
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...lab at Columbia University Medical Center. I am extremely comfortable with physics and mathematics (from my studies) as well as biology, chemistry, and biochemistry (through my research experience) and sincerely enjoy tutoring students in those areas. I also enjoy tutoring for standardized tests. While I was studying for the SAT, ACT, and MCAT, all of my preparation was through self-study; as a result, I have a unique approach to preparing for tests that emphasizes knowing...
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I work and live in New York City. I grew up in Knoxville, TN and went to the University of Pittsburgh, where I studied economics and political science. I'm light-hearted but take academics very seriously. In all of my lessons I combine my curiosity about the world with the idea that learning can be fun.
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...and a B.S. in Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology. I have taught adult ESL classes for nearly two years as part of a volunteer program at my school, which has given me a strong background in education and organizational skills. I am a fluent speaker of English, Spanish, and Portuguese, and I am in the process of learning Mandarin Chinese. Being an avid reader and learner of languages, my most passionate tutoring subjects are SAT Critical...
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...am completing a teacher credentialing program through the CSU online program CalSTate Teach to obtain my Multiple Subject teaching credential. I am a lifelong learner who periodically takes college level courses to stay current. I enjoy tutoring students in Math, Spanish, and English language arts. I have worked with elementary age students for the past year and employ educational technology to help them learn. I also enjoy teaching dramatic art in my spare time as...
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...with a Masters in management Studies. My education background is extremely diverse and promotes strong critical thinking and problem solving skills in various contexts. I began tutoring while a student at Princeton University. There, I tutored underclassmen while on campus as well as high school and middle school students from my hometown. I thoroughly enjoy tutoring individuals of all ages. At Princeton, I took two math courses, four Spanish courses, and a variety of science...
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...handful of fellowships for postgraduate research, including a US-UK Fulbright Award and a Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship. My areas of competency include English, Art History, Rhetoric, Spanish, and French. I am also proficient in SAT, GRE, and GRE Subject Test in English. My first Master of Arts is in English from the University of Sussex (UK) and my second is in Rhetoric from UC Berkeley. I am happy to work with students at...
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...of Arts in Latin American History. I recently received my Juris Doctor degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and began my career as an attorney. I am passionate about continuing my work in education through tutoring. I enjoy tutoring many subjects, particularly History, SAT Reading and Writing, College Essays, and Spanish. I love assisting students in implementing simple but effective changes in their preparation for Standardized Tests that show immediate results....
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...understanding how everything works and that is one of my biggest motivators in school and learning in general. The subjects in which I am most proficient are Calculus, any type of Algebra and test-taking skills. I am also fluent in Spanish having spent two years in Spain where I talked with peoples of various Spanish-speaking countries emphasizing the Castillian accent. I would love to be able to share my enthusiasm for understanding with everyone.
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...a Certificate in Leadership. I have volunteered as a tutor of high school students through Centro Hispano and junior high students through Mentoring Positives in Madison, Wisconsin. While I tutor a broad range of subjects, I am most passionate about biology, chemistry, and math, as well as the MCAT exam. I place a high emphasis on content comprehension in preparation for standardized tests, as well as in other coursework. I also enjoy teaching Spanish, in...
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After being a high school exchange student in South America, I started tutoring my classmates. I continued feeding my passion for the language and culture through travel and study. Now I share my experience and love of Spanish as a teacher.
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...is a sense of curiosity and a desire to learn about the world around me. I would love to instill that same type of enthusiasm in my students. My photography classes introduce the possibilities of the art by providing examples, asking questions, and allowing students to fill in the blanks. My hope for all of my learners is to help them communicate their own unique perspectives of the world and to acknowledge those perspectives as...
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...about the current state of world affairs, the effects of globalization, and how to effectively assimilate and adjust to a college environment. I spent the 2008-2009 Academic Year studying abroad in Madrid, Spain, which was an invaluable experience and allowed me to both learn the language to a great level of fluency, but also explore the culture and survive on my own in a foreign country. I loved my time abroad so much that when...
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...with a whole other community of people. Since becoming fluent in Spanish, I've continued to pursue my love of languages by studying Arabic and Mandarin Chinese in school, as well as picking up German from my Austrian family and French from my travels. I'm currently teaching myself Russian with the online learning software Duolingo. Chemistry has always been my favorite of the three core sciences, as it's more concretely observable than much of modern physics,...
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I'm a first year masters student at Oregon State University. I am willing to tutor most subjects, but specialize in high school and college level math and science subjects.
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...while I served abroad in the Peace Corps in the Dominican Republic. As a student of languages since I was 6 years old, studying Spanish and Russian, I'm familiar with the difficulties of language study and have a lot of experience working with students to overcome these obstacles to learning. When I am not working, I spend my time reading, taking online courses in environmental and water policy subjects, and cooking. I'm also a member...
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I know and understand student's challenges with mathematics. I am a patient teacher who will take you through any difficulties from scratch, step by step I will get you there. I love seeing my students improve in their studies. I speak both Spanish and English and can teach either of these subjects. I am also well experienced with the state core standards. -Juma... "Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."... In...
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I have a bachelor's degree from the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. I am available to tutor all levels of Spanish. I encourage all students to immerse themselves in the language and take advantage of every opportunity to practice and learn something new.
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...Public Policy at the University of Chicago. I attended the Horace Mann School in New York City. I love teaching and working with students because I feel that there is nothing more rewarding than being able to provide the extra push that students might need to be successful. I am passionate about helping students learn and making sure they are having fun doing so. I'm also happy to talk about anything a student might want...
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...the student's needs, strengths and learning style. I cover both practical applications and grammar structure (a little grammar goes a long way!) I also take into consideration the age of the student and the learner's interests and motivations. I am fully bilingual and I know from personal experience what is like to learn a foreign language. I am a high school teacher in a magnet school of Northwest Las Vegas. For seven years I have...
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Spanish 1 provides and introduction and overview of the beautiful language of Spanish. Spanish 2 increases the difficulty and complexity of the material, while expecting students to continue to make use of the elementary knowledge they gained in Spanish 1. Students are introduced to more tenses and are expected to differentiate between their proper usages. While many of the verbs introduced in Spanish 1 follow the rules of conjugation that students concurrently learn, Spanish 2 begins to present frequently used words that don't follow these patterns and must be memorized individually. Students continue to increase their Spanish vocabulary as well. All of the words they learned in Spanish 1 are still fair game and can appear on homework, quizzes, and tests.
Along with the expansion of student's skills in these various areas, they are expected to have more involved conversations. No longer are conversations simple exchanges of common phrases that often follow rigid formats. Students are expected to express their own opinions about subjects with confidence, if not ease, in a foreign language. Reading and writing skills are expected to follow suit and to develop more complexity and depth. Students are expected to being speaking and writing as naturally in Spanish as they do in their native language. While they aren't expected to be fluent, they will need greater proficiency than in the previous course.
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Recent Spanish 2 Tutoring Session Notes
Today was our first session, and the student is beginning a summer online course. We reviewed furniture vocabulary and began discussing travel vocabulary. He learned the subjunctive tense and was able to grasp the main idea quickly. We discussed creating flashcards to review vocabulary. He knows what pages to finish studying before he takes the Unit 1 quiz on Friday.
We went through some of the student's Spanish notebook and I quizzed her on food and place vocab words, and held short dialogues with her to practice. I also explained the difference between "el Papa" and "la papa"-- the Pope vs. potatoes!
Today, we finished up with formal commands and started the present subjunctive. The student was quick to understand the concepts and practiced a lot online. Very productive. We are hoping to finish up before she goes to school.
We talked about object pronouns and a little bit about reflexive pronouns and why they are similar. Today was productive because the student was able to review direct and indirect pronouns and their uses within sentence structure. We practiced with exercises from both his textbook and other materials. He has notecards that include details about using direct and indirect pronouns.
Initial session today with the student went well. It appears that he needs a good foundation regarding how to conjugate verbs and also gain experience in attaching the correct verb conjugation with the correct pronoun (tu....eres /you....are). We came up with a graphic way to remember the endings so that appeared to be a good start. We did a little bit of writing, oral, and discussion regarding some simple sentences that incorporated the verbs, and some of the material that he learned last year in Spanish 1, and discussed the reasoning behind the sentences.
Review of some basic Spanish I vocabulary and regular verb conjugation
Went over the difference between ser and estar and question words (que, como, quien, cual, etc.)
Practiced English-Spanish and Spanish-English translations and tweaking pronunciation
