Award-Winning English Tutors in East Bay, CA

...been my friends' informal editor! In my free time, I love to write, read, and watch movies. I love to ski, though I seldom go. I love to travel. I love to go on bike rides with friends, or sometimes just grab a book and go explore the Berkeley hills on my own. I'll sit...

...a minor in English. At Berkeley, I became interested in both medicine and public health, and I participated in the California Childhood Leukemia Study at Berkeley's School of Public Health. Currently, I am taking a few years off before applying to medical school. In my free time, I like to read, run, do yoga, and...

...my students struggling with difficult concepts I have been able to quickly and easily identify why they don't understand the material and how to effectively explain it. I take a personal interest in success of my students. I am drawn to medicine because helping others is highly rewarding to me, and I have...

...Language Arts, and Math, but I am willing to help each student with whatever they need. Two of the students I tutored were able to get their D and F averages up to C's and B's in just a few months with my help. My tutoring philosophy differs for each student. I like to assess...

...and Mandarin. I also write essays very frequently and enjoy both formal and creative writing, so I love helping students improve their English abilities and helping students with writing and essay editing. I also tutor math (I excelled in math throughout high school and continued to take math courses in college) and thoroughly enjoy doing...

Spanish is my first language I also like helping people in any way I can. I am currently in my third year of college I am planning to major in Linguistics and Spanish because I want to become a interpreter.

...little boys while my husband works on a PhD at Stanford and I love it, but I miss teaching and working with students. I tutor a wide range of subjects including history, writing, and math. I am passionate about each of them for different reasons. History helps us identify bias, see cause and effect, think...

...from Cornell University. In college, I majored in Russian and French, and before law school, I spent two years teaching English as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Ukraine. In the years since, I have provided ESL tutoring to students with a diversity of backgrounds, ages, and nationalities. During law school, I taught full-length LSAT...

...experiences attained through my previous jobs (mainly of education) will help me a lot for my position. But enthusiasm just doesn't do everything as I take genuine interest in the individual student and view him/her full of potentials to grow academically and ultimately, as a person. Besides the main subjects I mentioned above, I also...

...to my kids and grandkids in the Bay Area. As a longtime English professor and writing program administrator at two Pac-12 universities, I've always enjoyed working one-on-one with individual students whether it's solving the problems posed by specific assignments, preparing for the reading and writing portions of the SAT, or generating and revising application essays...