...Boston. My interest in tutoring started in high school when I tutored freshmen in biology. I also have extensive informal experience in tutoring. Growing up, I have helped each of my younger siblings with their academic problem areas, namely math and science. I would also mentor my peers in high school in various subjects. I...
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...and throughout college, I participated in several tutoring initiatives and worked with students of all levels. Between graduating in high school and starting freshman year of college, I taught a seventh grade math class for three months during a year abroad in Ghana. I also spent a summer doing GED tutoring for participants of an...
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...Spanish Department for four years as a grader and tutor for students in all levels of learning. I also served as a tutor for a summer in Amman, Jordan, teaching English to refugees from the Middle East and North Africa region. My favorite subjects to tutor are math and Spanish because both have many real...
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...up in West Virginia, but I have called Arizona home for the last 12 years. I absolutely love teaching and believe that all students have the ability to learn and grow in knowledge. Patience and the ability to adjust to meet the needs of the student makes for an excellent tutor. I am able to...
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...a strong interest in physics and astronomy, fields that rely on math heavily. I’ve also taken the time to nurture my passion for the Japanese language and culture. During college, I spent two semesters in Kyoto, Japan, where I participated in an intensive language and emersion program. During my undergraduate years I tutored students for...
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...highlighted some of these experiences in the following paragraph. During my undergraduate years, I worked as a TA in both the "Introduction to Biology" and "Biochemistry" courses, where I was responsible for both private and group tutoring. While earning my doctorate in Medical School, I employed myself as an MCAT tutor, providing educational tutoring as...
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...engage with students on an academic level even more. My philosophy for learning is repetition, motivation, and confidence. And above all of these things, leaning must be enjoyable and fun. Stressful learning will get students nowhere. When I work with children, I immediately establish a bond, a relationship of comfort and excitement. I want my...
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...into contact with learns in very different ways. I believe I am a good fit for your student not because of my knowledge in specific subjects, but my ability to cater to each student's individual learning strengths - creating a work environment in which your student is not only comfortable, but one in which they...
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...Mechanics. I currently tutor students at FSU in a variety of Math subjects. I am a patient and positive person, and love seeing others succeed! Outside of tutoring, I enjoy playing tennis, water and snow skiing, weight lifting, gardening, cooking, and reading. My academic interests lie in understanding the impacts of climate change and human...
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...tutoring, subbing, and coaching. I am experienced in test prep, homework help, arithmetic, conversions, elementary and advanced English, but my favorite subjects to tutor are essay editing, writing or verbal skills, advanced mathematics or science. I like to bring enthusiasm to my lessons, as well as a variety of methods to help provide students with...
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...half. Prior to that, I tutored Math, Chemistry, and Physics at Cal Poly Pomona during my undergraduate degree. At Cal Poly Pomona, I was a member of Tau Beta Pi, an honors student engineering society, elected because of my academic performance. I have also taught electronics to non-science majors while I was at UC Santa...
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...a very passionate person, and one of my major passions is school and I want to spread that passion around and get people as excited for school as they were when they were younger. The most rewarding thing to me is when someone is able to say "Oh! I get it," and understand something they...
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...I've been both a student and teacher of guitar, and I try to take that teaching style into my tutoring. I never start by explaining material or by "simplifying" it (because that usually means repeating it again and again!) but by listening to the student and finding out exactly the student already knows and what...
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...other people succeed. I like helping my students figure out their own learning styles and then helping them maximize on their strengths. I tutor a wide range of subjects but the sciences are my personal specialty. I am fascinated with the building blocks of matter and love learning and teaching about them. If you need...
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...personal favorites are mathematics and Spanish due to my love for numbers and languages. I believe that learning never stops. As a fellow student, I understand the frustration that comes along with a rigorous course load. I aim to alleviate that frustration and help students develop a passion for learning through my patience, enthusiasm, and...
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...a unique lesson to present to thirty peers on a weekly basis. Two years of experience in this leadership role provided me with strong communication skills, expertise in various instruction strategies, and the ability to excite students about learning. I'm particularly passionate about chemistry, and am excited to share my enthusiasm for science with others....
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...and GRE. I am an adaptable and communicative tutor, with a broad knowledge base and varied teaching experiences. After graduating magna cum laude from Georgetown University, I studied and worked on sustainable development issues in Washington, D.C. for several years. I am now pursuing a career in education. I have worked with students in a...
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I am deeply passionate about the field of education. I look forward to tutoring and helping individuals who are dedicated to their future. I am happy to offer advice about college applications and career counseling as well. I can't wait to meet you!
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...had to write papers, crunch numbers, and study for everything from the ACT to the LSAT. Now, I've got a Masters degree and am on my way to law school. I have experience working with everyone from kids to grad students and want to help people find the learning style that works best for them.
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Recent College Algebra Tutoring Session Notes
The student has a good understanding of the basics behind college algebra but just needs more practice to understand where to start on a lot of the problems. We went over several kinds of factoring problems. Once she realized the trick to it, she did very well! We also did several factoring/simplifying problems with add/sub and mult/div which went pretty well. We ended on basics of complex fractions, which are a little more difficult. She is good at finding the LCD for the problems. We just need to work on the way to solve complex fractions since it's a formula in a sense.
Today the student and I went over problems from a practice test he had printed out for the math placement test. He was able to solve many of the problems easily, but some were more challenging. For those, we went over strategies including polynomial long division, rules of logarithms, trigonometric identities, difference of cubes, and more. We made an appointment for tomorrow, when we will work through another one of the practice tests he printed out.
Discussed study methods for upcoming tests: reviewing past homework and tests, making a list of past exercises and categorizing topics to better understand which methods to use to solve problems. We discussed systems of equations (linear and non-linear) and matrices.
We reviewed topics covered in yesterday's tutoring session (distance between two points, midpoint). We also continued where we left off with circle equations from yesterday. We looked at a test the student took this past spring semester for the same class (different professor) and he reworked some of the problems that he had missed. He was able to solve the questions or get closer to the answer than he previously did when he took the test.
The student and I covered upcoming material. I left her my notes on end behavior of polynomials, and she seemed to like my organization style. She has everything she needs to understand her professor in the upcoming lectures.
