Award-Winning French Tutors in Duke University, NC

...my dream school, I understand how many extraordinary opportunities can come from hard work and dedication. I believe that learning is not necessarily a one-size-fits-all experience, so placing emphasis on students' unique interests and perspectives is very important to me. With helpful study skills and creative approaches to the material, I hope to help students...

...Russian heritage that can help out with colloquialisms and grammar. Languages and linguistics are fascinating to me and I don't get to speak mine enough, so please speak them with me! My physics background, as well as my years of teaching, means I know a disturbing amount of math (through advanced calculus). Yet, I've also...

...student confidence is vital to teaching students healthy study skills and habits that they can take into other areas of their academic life. I really want to work with clients who want to learn how to become more confident and competent in their abilities, regardless of how much red ink they have seen!... At the beginning of the eight grade, I was mortified to learn that I suck at writing, although I had always been an eloquent speaker of thoughts and theories. My 8th grade teacher spilled her guts out about my writing with her red pen. While I cried a lot, I'm pretty sure that little red pen shed more ink than I did tears. So, I got a tutor to help me pass the North Carolina eighth grade writing test. I went from a poor writer to an effective writer‰ÛÓand I believe I did this because of my tutor. Tutors have the luxury of focusing on one learner's needs at a time, whereas teachers must carry a group of learner's needs all at once. I have learned to be a more efficient teacher and tutor by reflecting on my past experience with other tutors. Overall, I have ten years of tutoring in a professional capacity, five years of teaching at the college level, and several years of volunteering experience. Through these experiences, I have encountered various types of learning disabilities and language acquisition issues, and I have taken workshops on how to navigate these particular situations. Building student confidence in their ability to learn is an integral part of the tutoring process because student confidence is vital to teaching students healthy study skills and habits that they can take into other areas of their academic life. So, I really want to work with clients who want to learn how to become more confident and competent in their abilities, regardless of how much red ink they have seen!

...student aptitude and mindset for an appreciation of bilingual opportunities and cultural enrichment. French is an artistic language that provides unlimited possibilities for developing an aptitude for cultural enrichment and artistic appreciation. Students who embrace the macro aspect of the language will also embrace the dynamics of the French culture, French art and French history.

...huge part of my life. All of my role models, including my mother, have been teachers since I was born, and I was thrust very early into the world of teaching myself. This made me want to continue the legacy and help others the way my family always had. For that reason, I started tutoring...

...quality work and take the time that is needed to learn. I am a creative person and I bring that with me when tutoring and teaching. Not every student learns the same way, so it is important to come to a tutoring session and be able to bring a variety of strategies. I also believe...

...volunteer experience was in teaching. During a gap year between high school and college, I taught ESL both at a summer camp and in an elementary school setting to over 500 schoolchildren in China. During my summers in college, I also worked at an educational summer camp for underserved youth in Boston where I first...

...learning, especially mathematics. I believe students learn best from people they like, so I always make it a point to build relationships with students and treating them with respect and dignity. I also believe that students learn through different means, so I differentiate instruction to meet the needs of the students. I look forward to...

...was born in Mexico City, for the past 15 years I've been living in the United States working for different companies. I enjoy a lot teaching Spanish.I love music, art, to dance, sports, ski, scuba diving and of course to talk about the wonderful cities, towns, beaches and traditions that you can find in Mexico

...subject. Cause these are the subject I feel more comfortable with. I have a very visual and interactive approach with regards to tutoring. Cause I strongly believe that, for someone to really understand a concept, formula, law or theory, he/she must be able to visualize it of how it works in real situation.... My teaching philosophy would be to adapt any teaching method to the student's ability to understand, because not every student can adapt to a method of teaching. I make it a must for the explanation to be visual and practical.