Award-Winning French Tutors in South San Francisco, CA

...year. I have traveled extensively around the world and love meeting new people and learning new languages. I currently teach Spanish at a private school part time. I am very passionate about languages. I speak Spanish, French and some Arabic. I like to share my passion for languages through helping others to learn and master...

...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, striving to make every session informative and fun. In my spare time, I enjoy reading, cooking, and hiking. I also love...

I believe students are a reflection of the sum of their teachers. As someone with a background in teaching English and French, an excellent academic track record (graduating with Honors and Summa Cum Laude from DePaul University in Chicago), and a love of learning, I promise you will leave our tutoring sessions feeling more empowered.

...for the AP French exam in exchange for English tutoring. After graduation, I became the official French tutor for my community college at Diablo Valley College. Throughout these years, I have tutored kids from age seven to adults. I find great satisfaction from helping a student improve and succeed in learning a language. As I...

...learning and teaching, and I believe in return many have grown from working with me. For me, learning to work with a student is like solving a puzzle. Each student has her or his own unique set of strengths. I believe that figuring out what these are and molding the content around them is the...

...in other walks of life. I hope to impart this concept on my students - that once skills are learned they do not need to be used only in their given context. Most skills can be applied to a variety of situations - this is hard to see in a test-taking situation, but I try...

...organization that focused on helping lower income children, acting as both a tutor and a mentor to them. Additionally, having taken the MCAT exam twice and scoring dramatically better the second time, I feel that I have compiled a set of study skills and techniques that could also help other pre-med students who, like me,...

...towards the material that I teach and hearing my students tell me that they learn more with me in an hour than they do in an entire week of school! When I teach, I strive to let my students know that they are in a safe place where no question is too insignificant to ask...

My teaching philosophy is to facilitate learning by emphasizing the critical concepts and to demand more critical thinking from my students to really get a grasp of the concepts. My emphasis is on helping students to learn instead of just pushing my knowledge to them.... I have always been passionate about learning new things and expanding my experiences in life. I started teaching a couple of years ago because I wanted to contribute my knowledge to the community. I have been working for more than 5 years since I graduated, and I thought that it was time to give back. In the spirit of learning new things, I tackled the task of putting together the course with the lectures and exams. The preparation of the class allowed me to reflect on what my goals were for the class, besides teaching the required material. What did I want my students to get out the class? The first step to answer that, was to understand who my audience was and why they were taking the class. This first part was very important, allowing me to tailor the different learning objectives to something that the students could relate to, in their current or future jobs. Since then, I always take the time to get to know my students and be open and approachable, no matter how big my class is. In teaching, my overarching goal is to give the students the fundamental concepts from which most of chemistry and biology can be understood. Furthermore, I think that it is also essential for my students to learn valuable life skills. I understand that not all of my students are taking the class to become chemists or scientists, but I want to give them the tools to be successful, not only in my class but also in life. I believe that showing your enthusiasm and passion about the subject that you teach can be contagious and pique the curiosity of the more recalcitrant students. I always try to make my class hands-on whenever possible, and to always have examples that they can relate to in their day to day lives. Open interaction in my classroom is always important and controlled. Furthermore, I always challenge my students' answers to push them to understand a concept fully. I always like to think like a 3-year-old who is discovering new things and asks “why,” trying to get a grasp of what is surrounding her. I use this same “technique” to push my students and to really see if they understood the key concepts. My teaching philosophy is to facilitate learning by emphasizing the critical concepts, and to demand more critical thinking from my students to really get a grasp of the concepts. My emphasis is on helping students to learn instead of just pushing my knowledge to them.

...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 the years. In addition to helping students with specific subjects, I frequently help them with time-management, study skills, academic-life balance, and...