Award-Winning College Essays Tutors in San Mateo, CA

...should be given the opportunity to fail. I believe in reaching the student at their starting point, having high expectations, and giving them every tool they need to achieve their personal best. I enjoy teaching all ages and have taught K-12 and beyond. The subject levels change, but the basic principles remain. Treat all students with respect and value their input and skills. When I am not teaching or tutoring, I am learning something new...

I am from San Francisco, CA. After graduating from Lowell High School in 2011, I moved to Provo, UT to study Communication Disorders and Chinese at Brigham Young University. I just finished my third year at BYU. In the future, I hope to become a bilingual speech therapist. In my spare time, I love to read, travel, write, cook and spend time with family and friends.

...SAT/standardized test tutoring, math subjects, and English writing and literature. I emphasize critical thinking skills, flexible and adaptive thinking, and learning structures such as test-taking skills to succeed in specific environments. I currently study clinical psychology at UC Berkeley, although I majored at Williams College in math and English. I have a wide variety of interests both academically and non-academically, and am especially interested in art, fiction, the outdoors, yoga and meditation, people and relationships,...

...my free time I love to cook (I have worked in a couple well-known New York restaurants), read, sing, play piano, explore cities, eat, and travel. While I am comfortable working with students of all ages, I prefer to tutor K-8 or high school students preparing for the SAT. Tutoring English is my personal favorite, but I greatly enjoy the linear thinking and quantitative clarity that comes with teaching Mathematics as well. For the last...

I have over ten years of experience tutoring and I love working with my students. It is my priority to meet each student's unique learning needs, and I enjoy making seemingly complex concepts easy to understand. Many of my former students/clients refer friends or ask to work with me when new needs arise. I also love to help students with essays and college/grad school applications.

...school application, and expectations - not expecations of parents, but expectations of the students themselves. When I was unable to succeed as a student, I automatically assumed it was because I was incapable or not working hard enough. I found that the systematic shoveling of knowledge in the manner that represented that of the educator, usually the case, did not allow for me, the student, to grasp the concept in its most fundamental state. Often,...

...with a B.A. in English Literature. I worked for three years as a paralegal in New York, and recently relocated to the Bay Area. I have a deep appreciation for literature, writing, foreign languages and enjoy tutoring in these subjects most. I have extensive experience as an academic tutor. I worked one-on-one with a middle school student as an academic tutor and mentor throughout my college career at the University of Michigan. I work in...

...postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania, where I taught English, Critical Writing, and Comparative Literature. Now a proud resident of California, in my free time, I immerse myself in the Bay Area's lively arts scene, going to plays, concerts, and art shows. I also like to travel to Los Angeles to visit my daughter, who's a student at the University of Southern California. What do I like best about tutoring? The one-on-one interaction. Meaningful...

...Mathematics, I take the greatest joy in tutoring Literature and Writing, where the freedom of the written word allows me to better understand the students that I am working with. I also enjoy helping students learn how to approach standardized tests intelligently and efficiently. My approach to tutoring is strategic. I help students develop techniques that work for them to read, remember, or reinforce the knowledge they gain in class. Through reinforcement and clarification, I...

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