Award-Winning College Essays Tutors serving Tigard, OR

...english, and Spanish. Learning has always been my number one passion in life, and I can't wait to share that passion with my clients. My goal as a tutor is to not only help my clients learn their subject matter, but also improve their confidence by reinforcing the value of improving on their academic weaknesses....

...to fail. The crowd was there to listen to me, and they all were rooting for me to get my ideas across clearly. Some final notes about myself: I received my Masters of Arts in Clinical Psychology from Pepperdine University and my Bachelor of Arts from University of California, Merced; outside of tutoring, I enjoy...

...previous tutoring experience that ranges from tutoring students with learning disabilities to helping my fellow peers in college. I tutor in all levels of Spanish, English, Grammar, Reading, Biology, and Public Speaking. I currently work as a receptionist at a company in Portland and I feel very happy and rewarded at my job. In my...

...table, and know how important it is to experience that sense of equality for the student to feel that they have some agency in the resulting relationship. This directly informs my tutoring philosophy. I believe patience and empathy are the keys to excel as tutor. I approach tutoring as a partnership between tutor and student...

...fluency in German. I'm a bit of a glutton for new information, so I spend a lot of time reading and picking up diverse skills, like archery and basic auto maintenance. I also love spending time outdoors in any capacity, especially hiking and camping; one of my long-term goals is to visit all 59 of...

...like to read, write, cook, hike, travel (I have been all over the U. S. and extensively in Latin America and Asia), canoe, to play chess and Go, and spending time with my daughter. I feel very strongly about education. I believe education is both knowledge and the practical application of that knowledge for success....

Learning is my passion. Let me help you get excited about mastering your subject in the way that best fits your learning style.

...children and learning. I am well versed in all Language Arts and Math. I mainly work with students in Elementary school. I love seeing the lightbulb come on for students when they start to understand something. I like to make a personal connection with kids and see them as individuals. I meet students where they...

...indigenous authors. I am an active member of the Portland writing community. I am a co-founder of The Hour That Stretches spoken word event. The series' primary focus is to promote writing, in all its forms. This has resulted in strange pairings like icon William F. Nolan featured alongside 19 year old feminist poet Anna...

...In my spare time I enjoy reading, traveling, studying music, and science. I was a student of Chemistry for several years, but then I decided to pursue literature for my degrees. My favorite author is Shakespeare (I have one article about his plays accepted for publication by a British journal), but I enjoy various time...

...working with all types of learning styles. I work as a tutor because I love to help students evolve as writers, readers, and critical thinkers. I draw continual inspiration as I observe students benefiting from the transformational and empowering properties of written expression, active reading, and analytical thinking. I enjoy offering supportive and personalized lessons...

...More recently, I have been working at the Washington State University Vancouver Writing Center. There I did both face-to-face and online consultations with students about pieces of their writing. We would discuss the papers ideas, argument, organization, flow, grammar mechanics, and citation style. When working with papers, I follow strategies that we were taught to...

...reflect, and work towards their goals. I was born and raised in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where I worked as a fourth grade teacher at Albuquerque School of Excellence, a STEAM focused school (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math). I enjoyed working together with teachers and parents on Brain Day activities, coaching soccer after school, and...

...in the world. Throughout my experience as a Teacher, I have found that not all of students learn the same way, and that some take more time to grasp certain concepts. I know that this feeling can be discouraging for a student because I felt that way in certain subject areas. I strive to keep...

...in Political Psychology from Claremont McKenna College and an MA in Communications from Fairfield University. Written and verbal communication is a great strength of mine as both an academic and professional – English, History, the Social Sciences, etc. With that being said, I have worked with students of all ages on a variety of subjects....

...a real-world environment. While there I worked directly with students of many different ethnic, educational, and cultural backgrounds, both in class and during one-on-one conferences. I have also helped high school students develop their writing and complex reasoning skills. It is crucial that instructors not merely expect students to meet prescribed standards, but rather also...

...Manager Professional (PMP) and a certified Information Technology Infrastructure Library Practitioner (ITIL). I am currently learning about Information System Security and Big Data Analytics. Learning never ends. Sharing has been a building block in my personal, academia, and professional life. I have taught project management classes as well as classes about the benefits of my...

...applied, and should be applied, to all subjects; the ability to communicate effectively is essential for any endeavor. This is one of the main reasons that I studied at the University of Montana and earned my Bachelor of Arts in English and earned my Secondary Teaching Certificate while there. Sharing my passion for reading and...

...and essay writing. My favorite subject to teach is English, because I love watching someone progress from knowing just a few words of a language to speaking it with confidence. When I tutor, I focus on presenting information to students as clearly as possible so that they can apply it to assignments after our lesson....

...communicator with a background in English, biology, and environmental education. I have worked previously on a citizen science initiative, The American Kestrel Partnership, and recently graduated from the University of Oregon with M.S. degrees in Environmental Studies and Multimedia Journalism. In my free time, I play competitive roller derby for Portland's Wheels of Justice.