Award-Winning College Essays Tutors in Scottsdale, AZ

...teacher here in the Phoenix area. I have lived in Europe for 3 years and have 5 years of high school and middle school teaching experience. I have been teaching students for the last 10 years of all levels. I have many great references available and people say that I'm patient, flexible, knowledgeable, kind, and willing to go the extra mile so that the student understands the information. I am also currently completing my PhD...

...Kinesiology with a business focus. At Rice I was a student/athlete representing the Division I Owls in track and field. After several years experience voluntarily tutoring friends and family members I became a professional private tutor my junior year of college. My senior year, I took advantage of the opportunity to reach more students, creating a small private tutoring company in Houston in which I served as lead tutor and conducted all business operations. After...

...and tutoring for high-schoolers and college freshmen. I am currently helping two honors faculty members pioneer a writing tutoring program to aid the freshmen class with their required honors course, the Human Event. Because of this mentorship from the faculty, writing is definitely one of my favorite things to teach. Tutoring is all about having a balance- I want my students to feel relaxed and at-ease with the direction of study but also to be...

...social work minor completed to accompany my degree, and enjoy healthcare and sciences very much. I have also completed several AP and collegiate level English courses and enjoy helping those around me. Anatomy and science courses are my favorite to tutor, as I use them every day and find them very interesting. I tutor various levels of math, English, writing, and science, and like to let students contribute insight on the areas they need help...

...best approach to interacting with students is to be friendly, open, and patient. We have all struggled in a subject at some point in our lives, and I hate to see students get flustered or embarrassed when they don't understand a concept. I'm upbeat and enjoy sharing my enthusiasm for what I have learned with the people that I meet. When I'm not working or in school, I enjoy reading, listening to music, or eating...

...and most enjoy working with students struggling with English at all levels. I am competent in teaching decoding skills, working with sight words and phonics, teacing reading comprehension and fluency. I have taught preschool and first grade, and student taught in a third/forth grad classroom. I have spent six years in middle school English and four years in High School English. I've taught in an alternative school environment and have taught English language learners and...

...Since graduation, I have held two professional engineering positions. One involved overseeing operations for Halliburton Energy Services in Colorado and the second was as a project engineer for LyondellBasell in New Jersey. Between these positions, I returned to my undergraduate campus in Indiana. I performed research for one of the leading professors in my engineering concentration and often tutored co-workers in college math and physics classes. While studying for the GRE, I developed my own...

...hold two minors--one in Mathematics and the other in Women and Gender Studies. I initially started tutoring back in high school and have since integrated it into my life as more than just a job after seeing how rewarding it was. I enjoy teaching students and seeing the direct impact it has on their life. I want to help students achieve their short-term and long-term academic goals. My philosophy in teaching is to foster an...

...challenge determining exactly where a student's understanding of a topic was faulty. Over time, however, I developed a keener sense for the hurdles that students sometimes face when learning, as well as the most efficient ways to overcome them. I also developed more patience and empathy through tutoring - I often remembered feeling the same confusion about a topic that my students were feeling the first time I had learned the material. The skills and...

I graduated Magna Cum Laude from Washington University with a degree in International Studies, and am looking forward to spending some time in Phoenix while I take time off before law school. I tutored for two years in college, and my specialties include lower level math, English, writing, and the LSAT. In my free time, you can usually find me either on Camelback mountain, reading a book, or during basketball season, cheering on the Phoenix Suns!