Award-Winning German Tutors in Vallejo, CA

...East Palo Alto, and serving as an interpreter and health educator in a local free clinic. While at Stanford, I also had the opportunity to work abroad in Ecuador, where I planned educational activities for working children in Quito, and in South Africa volunteering at an HIV clinic. Now, in graduate school, I am a...

...all of my students. Every single one has taught me so many things about 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...

...students' strengths, rather than applying cookie-cutter solutions. I believe that a teacher's greatest asset is empathy. I strive to guide students to a greater understanding of the subject material while helping them recognize how they learn best. I have taught undergraduate college courses in psychology. I have taught and counseled children with learning disabilities and...

...junior high school. I have been a GED instructor for two years. I believe patience and a positive attitude are essential to success! I have worked with many students who have given up in frustration who simply need extra encouragement and attention to meet their goals. I believe every student has the ability to learn,...

...writing. I received scores of 5/5 in AP Calculus AB and BC and have taken numerous other APs, passing the APs in Physics, Biology, Literature, Language and Composition, Environmental Science, Economics, US history, and Chemistry. I was the President of my high school's only tutoring club and only math club, Infinity Math Club, where I...

...improving grades and scores is important, I am also a firm believer in the necessity of true learning and understanding: not in the memorize-then-forget method commonly found in school systems today, but in a fundamental understanding of concepts and their underlying elements in order to provide a useful skill-set that can be applied beyond one...

...support I had from my teachers, I would not be here today. I am currently working on my Master's in Classics and I could not have chosen a better path. Because of my background, I understand the difficulties of learning and teaching, and there really is nothing that I would rather do than tutor. I...

...for 6 years, I can honestly say that I love languages! I learned German fin Germany when I was on the year-long Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange program in high school. I went to Germany knowing only a few words, so I definitely know language learning frustrations first-hand. I kept working at it, studied abroad again at...

...patience, empathy, and communication. While music is one of my primary areas of focus, I also have expertise in foreign language and literature. My mother is from Germany, and I grew up learning the language. I then furthered my study of German in high school and college, where I took several advanced courses, including a...

...learning and reading has led me to art history, women's and gender studies, psychology, foreign language study and literature. I am available to tutor in many of these subject areas, and particularly enjoy helping students to put together research papers, essays, presentations, and working on basic reading and writing skills. I also understand the importance...