Award-Winning German Tutors in Pasadena, CA

...school, then at a first-rate community college. I've taught lecture courses with enrollments of more than three hundred students, as well as intimate seminars with as few as five participants. My courses have ranged from broad surveys of World History, Western Civilization, and Jewish History, to specialized investigations of the Reformation, the Enlightenment, the French Revolution, Nazi Germany, and Twentieth-Century Europe. I also have a strong command of the German language. My study of German...

...although teaching a class is an invaluable experience, it is working one on one with students that really enables me to make breakthroughs happen. I like making analogies, and I often will ask my students, "If a person wants to go pro in the NFL (or become a professional musician, etc.), what should they do?" Without hesitation, they inevitably know the answer: practice! Yet so many students fail to see the connection between practicing academic...

...well as in San Antonio, Texas, where I obtained my undergraduate degree. I have a B.A. in German, and studied abroad in Berlin, Germany for seven months during college. During this time I was immersed in German language and culture. After graduating, I lived in Southeast Asia for two months, during which time I obtained my TEFL certification and taught English to children and adults. I currently work as a Teacher's Aide at a private...

...trumpet and piano performance. I am a Cerritos native who went to the University of California, Irvine for college and received a Masters degree from New York University before enrolling in my current doctoral program. While I am here in California for the next foreseeable months while completing the last steps of my Ph.D, I am excited and earnest to work as a tutor for Varsity Tutors. This is because I wish to enhance the...

Teaching is a matter of questioning. The unexamined life is not worth living.... My teaching philosophy is to encourage question marks, not periods. The value in education and tutoring is not finding the answer, but discovering ways to find answers. Asking questions, not dictating methods. Retention of process is much easier when it is self-generated, rather than dictated. Dictation simply becomes rote memorization on behalf of the student, and the only people who enjoy memorizing are actors.

I am currently a junior at the University of La Verne working towards a B. A. in English. I am familiar with AP exams and honors course material. I look forward to strengthening and developing prospective clients' skills by a variety of teaching and learning methods I have acquired and found most effective. ... I believe that all students differ in the way in which they obtain information. A student's interest in the subject has an effect on how well they retain given material, but I believe that the best way for student retention of skills and information comes from various exposure to different materials that range from primary, secondary, and adapted material. I believe that challenging students, and teaching them to question and analyze material presented, is a good method to fuel a hunger for more knowledge.

...the pool. As I began college at Loyola Marymount University, my life took a turn towards the areas of math and science. Finding that I excelled in both areas my professors asked me to begin working with children from the local Playa Vista Elementary school as a part of a STEM outreach program. I have worked closely with the teachers and together we have completed several experiments: the latest being the construction of solar car...

...the ISEE, SSAT, and HSPT. I also teach a bi-weekly SAT Prep course in Glendale, and an advanced Competition Math class for two age groups (6-8 and 9-12). It's a lot of fun! I've always found math pretty neat and like to get students interested in it too! I love to travel and have been fortunate enough to do a lot of it during my quarter-century on this planet—Russia, all over Europe, the Middle East,...

...studied in Berlin and Munich, and I know my way around the German language pretty well. I can teach you the way Germans actually talk (the stuff they don't teach you in school), but I can also help you study for that big exam coming up. I know the rules and some good ways to remember them. Even just having a regular conversation partner (Sprachpartner!) will make a huge difference in your speaking, listening, reading...

...subjects. I am a polymath with a love for discovering the interconnectedness of all knowledge; for instance, I studied German not just because I love the language, but because it gave me access to learning more about culture, literature, philosophy, science, poetry, and cinema. This quest for interconnected knowledge is why I find joy in teaching multiple subjects, especially writing, math, German and reading. My love and understanding of writing, reading and math also make...