Award-Winning French Tutors in Palo Alto, CA

...undergraduate, I worked as a tutor and mentor for underserved communities in San Diego. I worked with students ranging from first to twelfth grade, as well as adults preparing for the GED. After finishing my bachelors degree, I worked as an English instructor with high school-level students in France for a school year. While I tutor a range of subjects, I most enjoy tutoring French and Social Sciences. I really enjoy the tutoring process; I...

...assistant in writing-intensive courses. I also worked as a writing fellow in the university writing center, where I worked with undergraduates and graduate students from all disciplines and all linguistic backgrounds At Pomona College, I worked with elementary school students through a program called the Weekly Writing Workshop, and during my summers, I worked with the Breakthrough Collaborative, an intensive summer school academy for middle school students I love international literature and translated literature, and...

...Comparative Literature. I went to UC Davis, and The Pennsylvania State University; I am finishing my PhD now while living in the Bay Area. I have published on diverse topics ranging from Shakespeare to film theory, and I have given talks at national and regional conferences in my field. I have been an academic adviser to more than one hundred students at various colleges, and I have offered individual, tailored tutoring to many students over...

...am currently doing cancer research at the University of California, San Francisco in a melanoma lab while I apply to medical schools. In high school and college I tutored students in English and Math, two of my favorite subjects to teach. As the daughter of a third grade teacher, I place great importance on education. I have witnessed the positive impact that increased one-on-one attention can provide for students. I tutor every subject with enthusiasm,...

...I expanded my tutoring repertoire to include French and Japanese, two languages I have studied extensively, while obtaining my teaching credential in Music. After graduate school, I headed to Japan to live and teach ESL for two years, before heading back to Silicon Valley to purse a career as a music teacher. I'm super excited to be your ESL, French, Japanese, or Music Theory tutor! I find that the one-on-one environment of tutoring is truly...

...and young adults teaching foreign language both in the States and abroad using a teaching style highly influenced by my extensive theatre background. I believe in fun, interactive lessons that take studying from a chore to an enjoyable activity. Examples of some of my lessons are: practicing tongue twisters, improve games, paper airplane construction, and summarizing and analyzing modern popular movies like Harry Potter. That said, I can also easily adapt my lessons to fit...

For over five years, I tutored high school mathematics, SAT/ACT test prep, and essay-writing privately and with the Columbia University Tutoring and Translating Agency. During the past school year, I worked as a teaching artist for grades 5-7 in many New York schools, through LEAP (Learning through an Expanded Arts Program) and MakerState.... I believe in teaching students the strategies to approach problems methodically. They can see common patterns emerge, keep track of what they need to study further, and avoid errors.

...being fresh out of school, I would like to continue the education experience by tutoring in my spare time. Among my friends, I am known to be patient and empathetic. I also try to be as open-minded as possible. I have been either tutoring or mentoring many students and peers throughout high school, college, and graduate school. As a life-long learner, I also consider myself a mentee and view many people as my mentor, so...

...now through various avenues and really enjoy helping other students get interested in the subjects they find most difficult. I have had experience previously tutoring at a Middle School tutoring center, and online through another tutoring company. I prefer to tutor students in English, Writing, Math until Algebra 2, and French. My favorite subjects to tutor however, is writing and French. I am an aspiring designer and I hope to work in the tech industry...

...to never lose hope when life gets tough. It's okay if you don't have all As every semester in every class: what's more important is your effort. One's efforts and hard work are what really measure one's intelligence and my goal as a Varsity Tutors instructor are to not only teach my students the material but also encourage them to work hard as school is simply a test of what the real world will be...