Award-Winning English Tutors in Yorba Linda, CA

...France where I created lessons focusing on grammar, vocabulary, idiomatic speech, and culture. This past year, I received my master's in English at the University of Cambridge, writing a dissertation on trans-Atlantic/trans-cultural poetry with a focus on Walt Whitman, T.S. Eliot, and Jules Laforgue. Many summers have found me working as a residential assistant for...

...the brightest!) to grow both academically and personally. Now for my alphabet soup of degrees. I received my Bachelor's degree from UCLA in Sociology with a minor in Education. I then went on to complete my Master's degree in Sociology and Education at Teachers College, Columbia University. And because two degrees aren't enough, I am...

...am currently a doctoral student in the Educational Leadership program at California State University Long Beach and am studying how "Hip Hop can be used to increase retention and graduation rates for at-risk High School students." I have over six years of experience in teaching Women's Studies and Sociology at the Higher Education level. Teaching...

...and appreciation of the world around us. My favorite disciplines -- languages, history, geography, and ecology -- are also my pastimes, as they reward me with a sense of wonder for the staggering diversity of human achievements and the rich beauty of the natural environment. I take pleasure in working as a tutor because it...

...dance at San Francisco State University. I discovered how much I love instructing students and eventually went back to school for my Multiple Subject Teaching Credential with BCLAD from CSU East Bay. Teaching has also given me amazing opportunities to travel to Oaxaca, Mexico, and Barranquilla, Colombia, where I taught various age groups and subject...

...teacher that the best work comes from happy students. In my classroom, we will be positive and fun as we approach our work with a focused energy. Whether it's helping you boost your grades, bumping up your test scores or working on a homework assignment, I'm here to help. Let's get started!... I would assess their goals while creating an encouraging and non-judgmental learning environment. I want to find out what they want help with while also making them feel at ease.

...The time I have spent taking and tutoring students for standardized tests has only refined my understanding of what students need and have the most trouble with. Although I enjoy and have experience teaching a vast array of subjects (especially during my time at a graduation lab at Irving High School), I am especially drawn...

...find challenging. I enjoy teaching, and I have tutored Spanish to native English speakers as well as taught English as a Second Language (ESL) for the state of Arizona. As someone who has learned both Spanish and Russian through classroom instruction, I find it rewarding to help students enjoy the challenges of learning a foreign...

...material. I found that finding ways to associate what I was learning with things I already understood was the best way to go about it. I never enjoyed brute memorization, so I became very good at linking topics and ingraining them into my way of thinking, so that I very rarely had to completely memorize...

...(from farming in the United Kingdom to camping and hiking across the United States), and discovered a wonderfully fulfilling career in education. I have spent the past two years teaching middle school in rural Massachusetts, and am now certified to teach grades K-12 in both Massachusetts and California. While my concentration is in U.S. and...