...14 years respectively) and they tend to struggle in school, I have served as their primary tutor for the past couple of years. Funnily enough, it wasn't really my choice to help them with their homework in the beginning, but I quickly learned that it was a lot of fun to help them out. Plus, my relationship with them grew stronger, as helping them with homework turned into time that we enjoyed spending together. My...
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...and French at Luther College, a small liberal arts school with strong programs in music, biology, and study abroad. I have been tutoring French up through the advanced university level since my sophomore year. French as a foreign language is by far my favorite subject to tutor - I started tutoring fellow students back in high school! In my eyes, every student is an individual with a unique learning strategy. I do what I can...
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...in Visual, Material and Museum Anthropology. Prior to attending Oxford, I received my BA in Anthropology from Columbia University with a focus in archaeology and linguistics. As an archaeology student, I had the opportunity to train and mentor younger undergraduates, which sparked my interest in teaching. As a recent graduate, I'm excited to explore different opportunities and to share my love for the humanities and social sciences. My first love will always be anthropology, but...
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...cultures and to teach what I know about linguistics. I have studied a BA and MA in the subject both in the USA and Europe where I worked with many international students and professors and have experienced what it's like to work in groups where everybody has a different native language. What I would hope to teach my students is how to use language effectively to achieve their personal goals, whether it's for school, business,...
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...passion for teaching, researching, and higher education. I seek to employ this passion by contributing my academic, organizational, and creative gifts for the betterment of my students, colleagues, and communities. I bring a diverse range of skills from my many experiences in teaching, researching, volunteering, tutoring, administrating, mentoring, and studying. Additionally, I am particularly adept in the use of various technology and am very comfortable working in environments that require such proficiency. I am also...
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...with special needs, and refugees. I understand that teaching is about much more than relaying information. It's about non-judgement. It's about overcoming all possible barriers to success. It's about instilling confidence, independence, and resilience. It's about engaging the individual, and finding passion, excitement, and real motivation. If you are looking for more than somebody to simply relay information, if you are looking to truly enhance your learning journey, let's work together! (key words so you...
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I am a graduate of Fresno State University. I received a Bachelor of Arts in English and a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing with an emphasis in publishing and editing. I have always been fond of English as a subject and during my college years, I tutored fellow students with a focus on essay writing and test prep. In my spare time, I enjoy writing poetry and short stories.
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...Psychology and Linguistics, while also majoring in Chinese. I am currently working towards my MA in Applied Linguistics at Georgia State University. I primarily tutor reading comprehension and writing because I have a passion for both of these skills. My goal is to have every student love writing and reading as much as I do. I have experience with working with students all over the world, from China to Saudi Arabia to the United States....
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Throughout my career, I worked with students from various learning, cultural, and linguistic backgrounds, from k-12 and college levels. I taught Math, ELA, English, Social Studies, and linguistics. I am passionate about supporting learners who need to strengthen their academic stance. I am a clock person, and expected my students to be responsible during the learning process. I take my students' need very seriously to teach them effectively.
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...internships, and delved deeper into my interests. It is at times like this, when I take the time to reflect the state of my current self, that I am in awe at how much I managed to do, even as someone who grew up with limited beliefs and a chiseled shell of a personality, all within a dysfunctional household. I knew that there would be more to my life. There should never be anguish in...
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Teaching is my kryptonite. I enjoy teaching English, reading, writing, and math. I have my associate's and bachelor's degrees in the English field. Tutoring for standardized tests, or just to help you pass that one class is what I'm here for.
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...abiding by specific rules and, sometimes, exceptions. Through divergent thinking and debate of dialogic points of view, students are pushed outside their comfort zone and are pushed to think for themselves. To teach is to learn and I encourage my students to teach themselves, teach each other and to teach me. My experience enables me to better understand different approaches to engage students and their diverse learning style via reprisal of ideas, verbal reflection and...
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...graduating this December with a major in Psychology and a minor in cognitive science. I know first hand the benefits of studying in groups while also having someone who can help make more sense of a newly learned subject. As a psychology student myself I hope to help you understand more of the current content you are learning - through activities, interaction, and thought provoking quizzes or conversation. I think of tutoring as a way...
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I love to help people learn! I am a law librarian and have several years experience helping people prepare for the LSAT. I have written the LSAT and scored 164. I also have over 20 years teaching and tutoring experience makes me a perfect tutor for you! I want to learn about you and your tutoring requirements. I will accommodate your learning requirements and look forward to working with you!
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...an MA in Political Science from the US Naval Postgraduate School (with Russian), and an MDiv from Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary (with Biblical Greek and Hebrew). I am an avid learner and a world traveler who has lived in Italy, Japan, and Romania. Passing on a love of learning, and way of streamlining the learning process is a pure joy to me. My teaching portfolio includes the university level, elementary through high school (substitute teaching),...
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...now. I received my BA in English at Morgan State University, and was graced with the opportunity to help students all across the world study for exams, quizzes, content coverage, and even tutoring in different languages. Here's the cool part, I never had to leave my home. I was able to virtually help tutor students from ages 12-25 about the given subject I have obtained an understanding in. I love all age groups, and from...
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I am a current graduate student studying English with a focus in literature. Most of my passions center around English, Literature, and History, and basically everything in between! I'm an advocate for the accessibility of knowledge at any stage of life. I look forward to sharing my passions with my students, and working towards a better understanding together.
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Recent Linguistics Tutoring Session Notes
Before we started this class, we had a little quiz on the vocabulary we have covered in last few classes. The student studied a lot at home. Thus I asked him to memorize just one page at one time and we will test it again next class. Then I introduced different sentence types, such as questions and negations, we will finish the sentences next class, then the rest of the time we will intensively practice what we have learned in class.
The student has a test tomorrow, so we went over the vocabulary for the test by playing Simon Says and practicing having conversations. He did really well and is well prepared for his test. I also went over the etymology of some of the characters to help him develop tricks for memorizing the characters. We talked about the three functions that a radical can play in a character (tell you what it sounds like, tell you what it means, do nothing) and practiced identifying the parts of characters.
The main two phrases we learned of today were "different" and "same". We learned different colors, different numbers, different animals and different shapes. We used different color to draw same animals on the paper and we used same colors to draw different shapes on the paper. A series of drawing activities like these gave us opportunities to say them in Chinese again and again. The student is smart and has an amazing memory.
Today we went through two sets of vocabulary from the student's school work, one was about the animals and the other was from previous vocabulary for reviewing. He learned and memorized the animals vocabulary very well and also we practiced the adjective, cute, by telling which animals were cute or not. And I also explained three characters that look alike as he couldn't differentiate them at the beginning.
The student learned a new lesson today, and she did really well. She did 65% of the reading on her own as well as she learned to write a few new Chinese characters.
The student and I went over the previous session's dialogue on date and time, and then we went over a new dialogue involving hobbies. We also reviewed basic sentence structures and various modifications of sentence structure, and we practiced a few grammar drills.
