Award-Winning German Tutors serving Newton, MA

...and allowing yourself to have what you need, even if it isn't seen as average. Too often, our schools value data over students and forget that education is about discovery and personal growth. As a teacher and tutor, I strive to understand my students individually as whole, complex people. In doing so, I am able to better reach the person in front of me, utilizing their unique interests and talents while meeting their needs.

My name is Sebastian Almer and I'm a native Austrian currently living in the U.S. I am a student at the University of Massachusetts Lowell studying Psychology and have my sights set on a career in this field. I adore languages and am fluent in both German and English. Therefore I love helping enthusiastic German students perfect the language and get an insight on German, as well as Austrian, culture.

...Information Science at Simmons College (Boston, MA). I received my Bachelor of Arts degree from Agnes Scott College (Atlanta, GA) with a double-major in English Literature and Classical Civilizations. At Agnes Scott, I worked for three years in the Center for Writing and Speaking, where I discovered my love of helping students express their ideas through writing. Since then, I have worked primarily with elementary school students, including a year of assisting in a first...

...College in New York City, and started teaching undergraduate and graduate classes during my last year there. At Harvard, I have earned the Derek Bok Certificate for Excellence in Teaching three separate times. I have taught students as young as 14 and as old as 85. German: I studied abroad in Osnabrck, Lower Saxony and Berlin, where I earned my C2 certificate (near-native proficiency) in German. While in Germany, I took classes, taught in German,...

I am a rising junior studying at Duke University. I am majoring in Biology and minoring in Chemistry on the Premed track. I am so excited to work with students to help improve their understanding for scientific concepts and grow their love for these subjects! I love tutoring Biology, and I also am fluent in German and French and would love to help with those too!

...I am a huge trivia fan, and I am always working to ensure I use new facts about English and Social Studies in my teaching. Did you know Bangladesh has a higher population than Russia? My hobbies include drawing, going to the beach, creative writing, and playing the piano. MY OBJECTIVE To patiently bring my passion for education to my tutoring work, to engage my students in a challenging and respectful learning environment where every...

I have taught English as a foreign language for 17 years. I tutor people in speaking, listening, reading, writing, grammar and pronunciation. I also teach German, AP World History and literature. I look forward to working with you.

...aspect of teaching English or German and encouraging students to be receptive to material. To this end I spend my energy crafting the way it is presented which takes time but it is well spent. Working the material or lesson to the needs of the student means including how best to get the material across. I seek any way I can to reach a particular student or class. This may consist of finding patterns, relating...

...did my undergrad at West Virginia University, where I majored in History and minored in German and Math. I've had a passion for education since i graduated high school. During my gap semester, I worked alongside my high school statistics teacher in his math classrooms and fell in love! From there I tutored throughout college with a variety of organizations, working with at-risk high school students, university athletes, and students with disabilities. I enjoy tutoring...

...has always been my path towards doing so. Creative writing and English classes have helped me to connect with other authors and texts, and learning different languages allows me to do the same with different cultures. I have spoken French for 8 years, German for 4, and began to learn Spanish this past year. Tutoring is a very collaborative process for me, as the student cannot learn if they don't feel comfortable engaging with the...

...create a comfortable and stress-free environment in which a student can explore and develop their topic. After graduating from Connecticut College, I pursued a Fulbright Scholarship, and I spent the 2012-2013 academic year in Germany teaching English to middle and high school students in Dresden. Through this experience, I have developed a strategy for tutoring languages that involves creating a fun and exciting environment where students feel free to speak openly and develop their language...

...preparing for business trips to foreign countries. I tutor Italian, German, Spanish and English as a Second Language! I love tutoring foreign languages because there is nothing better than adding enrichment to someone's life! I believe in having fun and thinking outside of the box. There is way more to learning a language than just repeating verbs and phrases; learning a new language is the most exciting journey that you can embark on. My goal...

...fit the already-existing thought processes the learner has in mind. I believe everyone can learn a language, but not everyone may not teach effectively, as it takes empathy to get to someone's head. A common problem with learners is that they form sentences in ways they would in their native languages. With a little guidance, learners can easily correspond expressions in their native language As a tutor, I tutored for the German department at my...

...to become a secondary English literature teacher. I was born and raised in Germany but have spent more than 10 years abroad. I received the IB diploma from a selective international high school with a score of 42 out 45. Afterwards, I attended Deep Springs College and Brown University, where I received my Bachelor of Arts in Comparative Literature, with a GPA of 3.77. Most recently, I completed my Master's of Management at the Rotterdam...

...a sophomore studying Psychology and German at Carleton College. I have experience working with high school students helping them do homework in various subjects, but I would love to expand my experiences with tutoring and focus on teaching elementary and middle schoolers. I love to write, horseback ride, draw, and my favorite subjects include English, Psychology, Spanish, German, and Biology! I am looking forward to tutoring students in a variety of Elementary School level subjects.

...the fall and have some time off this summer. While at MIT, I came to really enjoy teaching. I have degrees in Physics and Linguistics, and am proficient in a variety of subjects including (but not limited to) math, physics, English, and foreign languages. I am fluent in German (both speaking and reading), and I studied Spanish extensively in school. My teaching experience includes tutoring throughout middle and high school, as well as several teaching...

...for Physics 131, where I am responsible for helping the students out with their in-class assignments and am required to proctor examinations. My responsibilities as a teaching assistant have been carried out successfully, enhancing my teaching skills. With my passion and experience in teaching and my knowledge of countless subjects at the college, high school, and middle school levels, I will be able to successfully help students who struggle to understand certain concepts in these...

...I was brought up in a household that spoke English and German and went to a German school P-K through 12th grade in the US. I love learning new languages (currently intermediate in Japanese and a beginner in Spanish) and would like to impart that love for language and for the German language in particular to you! I also love tea, singing, cooking and reading four books at a time. Willst du mit mir Deutsch...

...next step in my career. I am a self-proclaimed "audio nerd" and do freelance work within sound design and audio production. I really enjoy the intricacies of language and would be very interested in delving into a graduate/doctorate program in German Studies eventually, as I have a BA in German from Bates College. Right now, I am studying for the GRE and applying to other grad programs in that area. I have enjoyed working with...

...with native speakers of the tribal language to develop a picture dictionary for use in the region’s schools. Although I have a wide variety of interests, I perhaps most enjoy tutoring in German, English Literature, and Grammar. Language is a tool for us to use to convey ourselves, and a great creation which we have the opportunity to take hold of to convey ourselves well; language, in any capacity, is necessary for us to live...