Award-Winning English Tutors in Irving, TX

...a few years of job experience. As a member of the National Honor Society, I tutored students in all high-school subjects my junior and senior year. I also tutored middle-school students in an after-school program during the spring semester of my first-year at SMU. I went on to informally teach and tutor underclassmen friends throughout my last two years at SMU in all college-level math subjects as well as statistics, accounting, and finance. I am...

...English II Pre-Ap. As well as, English III AP and English IV . I must admit that I enjoy teaching high school, because literacy is the main focus. Teaching students to interpret what they have read for enjoyment as well as curriculum has always intrigued me. In 2012 the state of Texas implemented a new and more rigorous test called the STAAR. In regards to the reading assessment, 100% of my students achieved the minimum...

...by mistake but soon learned that that is what I am meant to do. I love the interaction with students and helping them to grow in their subjects. As far as pronunciation is concerned, my degree is in voice and theater where I learned to be effective with my English. I had to learn to pronounce different languages that I didn't even speak! I use everything that I was taught to teach my students how...

I'm a writer and editor with a passion for learning that I love to share -- I've been told my tag line should be "let's find out!" I'm a native Austinite, but I lived in New York while I got my Bachelor's in Comparative Literature and minored in Linguistics. After...

...even in the professional world. I also served as a lead peer academic coordinator in several of my science courses, including Biology I, Organic Chemistry, Microbiology, and Ecology. These roles required me to lead weekly on-campus study sessions with other students in the classes and interactively review course material. Prior to each session, I met with the professor to discuss methods I would implement in order to promote the success of fellow peers. Because I...

...After grad school, I taught English as a second language to adults, while at the same time continuing to tutor languages. At this time, I began to add other subjects to my teaching experience, including writing, pronunciation, listening and speaking, Spanish, SAT, GRE Verbal, GMAT, IELTS, TOEFL, and piano. My favorite subjects to tutor are language classes. My tutoring style can be characterized as patient and interactive; While Im confident that the content that I...

...scores indicate that I have an understanding of the more technical aspects of English such as grammar and vocabulary. This being said, I also exceed in both technical and creative essay writing. Because of these achievements I am also able to teach about the more subtle skills of writing such as tone and style. When it comes to my teaching style, my preference is to establish a partnership with the student so that they feel...

...graduation, I worked in the service industry and also made time for a trip to New Zealand and Australia, while earning a certification in TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) and Teaching Pronunciation from Oxford Seminars and Eastfield College, respectively. I used these qualifications to journey to the city of Krasnoyarsk, in Siberia, Russia, where for two years I taught English language comprehension classes and exam preparatory classes focused on argumentative style essays...

...me to focus on the students needs and ask the right questions to explain material they do not understand. I have been a tutor for three years at the current school that I teach at. When tutoring in science, I try to explain the steps necessary to solve problems and understand the material. I connect concepts to knowledge that the student already has. This helps the student to build on their frame of knowledge. I...

...the university to bolster education in some of the city's lowest achieving schools. During the school day I served as a Literacy Tutor for students in Kindergarten through 3rd grade. I also provided homework help and math and literacy tutoring for K-8 students in an after-school program. At the conclusion of the school year, I was part of a team of two tutors whose students demonstrated the most improvement of all the students in the...