Award-Winning Chess Tutors serving Santa Clara, CA

I am a lifelong learner and teacher who loves helping others. I want to help you grasp new concepts and understand difficult ideas. Seeing others succeed is my passion and I love ensuring students succeed academically.

Hello. My name is Todd Payne. I have two children and we are a happy family. I graduated from The University of Louisville in 1996 with a bachelor's degree in Psychology. I speak some Mandarin Chinese and have been teaching English for ten years. I look forward to tutoring you!

...backgrounds. I have experience teaching ELL and ESL in addition to students with developmental and intellectual disabilities. Primarily, I have focused my teaching in the areas of English, Reading, Composition, and Language Arts because of my BA in English with an emphasis in Writing and my TEFL certification. In the last few years, I have...

...Williams College where I major in History and Political Science with a certificate in Arabic. Having learned Spanish, Arabic and Korean from scratch, I am a major proponent of learning new languages and enjoy helping others on their language journeys. I am also an avid chess player, and love to introduce others to the game.

...Success program tutoring 7th and 8th graders in Math. I also tutored privately as time allowed. A part of my approach is to use a great deal of visual aide and provide a customized study guide to supplement tutoring sessions (which helped "D" students raise their Math grades to "B"). It gives me joy tutoring...

...outside of school. Over the years, I've developed a strong enthusiasm for STEM educationparticularly in mathematics and the sciencesthough I'm also capable of supporting students in English when needed. I believe that learning is most effective when supported by others, whether through teachers, mentors, or peers. Having personally benefited from tutoring, I'm committed to helping...

...me to listen to understand students when I work with them. This way, I can ask better questions to help them grow in specific knowledge, as well as in life in ways that work for them. This way, my students leave sessions satisfied, fulfilled, and feel it was time well-spent. My education background is in...

...an aspiring Trombonist based in the Metro Atlanta Area. Aaron has a degree from Mercer University with a minor in Instrumental Music, and has had copious experience studying jazz under Montogomery Cole at Mercer in Macon, Georgia. He is adept in music theory, jazz harmony, and performance. Aaron grew up playing instruments, but settled on...

I'm a recent computer science graduate. I've been tutoring since I was in high school and I have a passion for teaching and learning.

...believer than a holistic understanding of a subject is infinitely better than checking boxes, so I try to make sure that my students can not only do the work assigned to them, but also ensure they understand what it is they are doing. I think learning should be fun, and that the best teachers know...