Award-Winning College Essays Tutors serving Grand Prairie, TX

I'm a certified Texas Educator with K-12 teaching experience. Currently, I consult with school districts across Texas seeking to develop credit-recovery programs, virtual schools, and distance learning programs. I'm passionate about helping students set and meet their personal and academic goals under any and all circumstances.

...Social Studies, English reading and writing and some Science. I enjoy tutoring all of these subjects and have a large reference library at my house that I use to help me find answers to questions I do not readily know. Tutoring is not teaching, but is akin to it. In tutoring I determine what mistake the student is making, and help them determine the correct answer. Then try to clear up the reason that the...

...and my love for helping students achieve their academic goals. In addition, I have gained real-world, hands-on experiences tutoring, teaching lessons, and performing other classroom duties with individual students, small groups, and entire classrooms. As a future teacher, one of my goals is to make sure that each student realizes how valuable he or she is and recognizes his or her potential to learn. I truly believe that every student is capable of reaching his...

...my campus, a member of student council, the national honor society, and took part in several sports and youth groups. On the weekends, I enjoyed competing all over Texas with a traveling basketball team I was a part of. Fortunately, this early commitment to excellence helped me secure a spot with the Texas Tech Football team. In addition, I received a merit scholarship from Texas Tech based on my SAT scores and had my whole...

...confident that the content that I communicate benefits, feedback from the student is an integral part of my teaching. I believe that if the student can be communicative about what they do and do not understand, it will not only help me as the tutor, but more importantly, this will inform the students understanding of their own learning processes and where they are on their journey of learning. This concept of being self-aware in the...

...ability to make "dry" information engaging and interesting. I have a broad general world history knowledge, but I have an emphasis in European history. With my journalism degree, I am required to gain a grammar/syntax certification from EGUMPP, a comprehensive online course that teaches every area of grammar and spelling. My writing skills, along with a passion for reading, has allowed me to successfully help tutor students in their own reading and writing skills. Outside...

...been English, Writing, Public Speaking, Math, Science, United States History and Geometry. I also tutor standardized test taking. One of my strengths as a tutor is to take difficult subjects or concepts and make them easier to understand. I am completely dedicated to helping students get better. I like for teaching and learning to be fun, because students learn more if they are enjoying what they are being taught. My outside interests are enjoying time...

I am able to determine what obstacles are preventing a student from grasping a concept, and create different means of overcoming those obstacles. Creating a partnership with the student and understanding what he or she needs to overcome is what makes me a great tutor. ... I would talk with the student and/or his or her parents to learn what each hopes to achieve from the tutoring sessions. I would ask what they've tried, what they...

...find their own voice to lend their writing a level of authenticity. Stemming from my background in dramatic arts, my classroom also incorporates role-play and theatre-based exercises, as I believe these are the ultimate test of both linguistic skill and attentiveness. Throughout my academic career and work experiences I have succeeded in a variety of tasks, and my record of solid performance has granted me the opportunity to take on different levels of responsibility. I...

Although I spend my days teaching in a classroom, I love moonlighting at a tutor because of the individualized attention that my students receive. I bring several years of classroom experience to the table, as well as a teaching credential from the University of Oxford and a BA from Northwestern University. While my classroom experience is in English/reading and history, my tutoring experience has been in everything from math to foreign languages. ... In short, I...

...Bachelor's in Comparative Literature and minored in Linguistics. After I graduated I moved back home to Austin and got my Masters in Global Policy Studies at the LBJ School of Public Affairs at UT. Now I'm in Fort Worth, with an MBA I picked up along the way (also from UT Austin) -- apparently I can't stay out of school for long. As the oldest of three kids, I've been teaching informally for as long...