...worked formally as a German tutor and teaching assistant at my university. This job has helped me set up wonderful experiences living in Germany for the past two summers, during which I have learned countless lessons about the German language and culture. Previous to this position, I gained informal experience teaching and tutoring various other subjects at the high school and college levels. I like to emphasize that there is no such thing as too...
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...to share my passion in math and science with them as well. Beyond scholastic achievement, math and science allow one to understand the world we live in, and the more you learn, the more the inherent structure, beauty and interconnectedness of the natural world appear to become self-evident. As a tutor, I try to show my students why what they're learning matters, and how it can enrich their view of the world, even if they...
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...culture and I am eager to ignite this passion in others. I began studying German at age 12 in middle school and went on to complete a BA degree at the State University of New York at Oswego. I subsequently completed a Masters degree through Middlebury College and was able to study in Berlin, Germany during this time. I believe in taking an academic as well as cultural approach to language learning, so that the...
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...have experience working with students with needs and disabilities for over 7 years. I have also tutored in-person but took this to the next level hoping to help others online. I achieved my bachelor degree in education studies and master degree in special education. I believe helping others achieve their goals can be beneficial to the educational outcome of all students. I enjoy the challenge of math but also enjoy history, science, and English.
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...Holy Cross and the University of Virginia. I received my BA from Holy Cross in Economics and German and my Masters in German from UVa. While at University of Virginia I taught introductory and intermediate German to undergraduate students and also tutored students in essay writing and grammar in both English and German. This past year I taught an undergraduate seminar in Germany at Ruhr University Bochum on German Film. Outside of teaching and tutoring...
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...needing it! I also specialize in anything history-related, with a lot of experience in writing essays and fixing mistakes in writing. I will be able to relate to you or your kid while still maintaining an educational environment that will have them leaving our sessions confident in their abilities. I have been a babysitter for 7 years, and have experience with children from ages 1-16. During my work hours, I often had to help the...
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My personal statement and teaching philosophy are a quote by Albert Einstein "Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid."
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...part of learning that isn't taught well in high school/college level. I've worked with students with several different learning styles and who have reported learning difficulties. The thing I struggled with the most throughout school was the volume of information that we are often responsible for knowing. I've developed tons of tricks throughout my academic career to help with that. I'm super excited to meet you and hope that I can help you meet your...
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...through college and graduated from Kutztown University of Pennsylvania in 2012 with a major in German Communication and Culture. I also have a large passion for Pennsylvania Dutch, along with the history of German immigration and the influence of immigration on the United States. I recently lived in northern Germany from 2013-2015, where I lived on the island of Helgoland and worked in hospitality. I was a desk receptionist for three hotels. I then moved...
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...program to earn my teacher licensure. I have always taught and tutored others; from my time in the Boy Scouts to captain of my hockey team I have helped a wide range of individuals learn. While abroad my German friend and I would meet twice a week on the bridge where we would talk about our cultures, I would ask him questions about the German language, and sometime he would give me a tours around...
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'I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.' Alber Einstein... Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I may remember. Include me and I will learn.
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I am a native German speaker. I am fluent and have a lot of knowledge of the culture and customs. Furthermore, I am fluent in English and am able to help anyone pursuing up to college level English. ... I would try to find out why they are struggling with it and work on those areas. Furthermore, I would try to take the stress off of learning by making my sessions interesting.... I would try to...
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I am a German, English and Spanish teacher from Germany who wants to help students improve their language skills while learning more about different cultures and backgrounds.
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...to the unique needs of a given student. While conducting a lesson or leading practice, I quickly become aware of students academic needs. Every student, regardless of background, can improve his or her ability to listen to and understand vocabulary and sentences in a second language. In lectures, discussions, and assignments, I show that learning a second language responds to various modes of inquiry: analytic, hermeneutic, cultural, and historical; thus, students are led to explore...
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...tutor for my university's tutoring center. I am a CRLA certified Master Tutor and have worked with students of many ages and academic backgrounds, in essay writing, creative writing, test prep, and the German language. As a tutor, my most important goals are to help my clients build and grow confidence in their own abilities as students, to help them discover new ways to learn and understand their subjects, regardless of skill level or interest,...
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...guidance, I help my students find what motivates them to learn. My students tell me that the combination of improvement to their knowledge and the discovery of their intrinsic motivation makes them feel confident about themselves as learners. I wanted to become a scholar because I love exploring and deconstructing ideas and finding new ways to look at old problems. My passion for research extends naturally into my teaching and tutoring approach, where I help students...
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...few things more rewarding than being able to create enthusiasm for a subject area. My favorites are math, physics and music. I grew up Spanish bilingual and can teach in both languages having TA'd college level Spanish courses. I also lived in Germany for a year and can help students with that. I have a B.S. in Math, B.S. in Physics and a masters degree in Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space sciences. I also work as...
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...passionate about encouraging others who are learning CS so that they may come to understand the powerful, real-world impact that programming can have. As someone who has a strong background in tutoring, including, but not limited to, the chemistry tutoring club I co-founded in high school and my current involvement in the Duke Music Tutors organization, I am confident in my ability to tutor in a way that is focused, individualized, and memorable.
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Unlike many other modern European languages that are taught in high school and college foreign language courses, German presents a particular set of challenges. German education requires you to work through a complex vocabulary, whose cognates are more distant from English than those found in languages like French and Spanish. Likewise, while grammar can be difficult in any foreign language, in German this is particularly the case given its complex inflections and clause structures. Now that you are in your fourth year of studies, all of these aspects have come together in a very difficult mixture of speech, reading, and translation. Rather than struggle through the many difficulties of this intense course, contact Varsity Tutors today to learn about the German 4 tutoring options available near you.
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A personal language tutor can be particularly helpful in a course like German 4, given the number of topics that are frequently addressed in any given assignment. Your tutor can help you to evaluate the specific issues that are causing you difficulties in your conversations and translations, assessing your current learning in light of the topics that you have covered in past years. By focusing in this way on the many grammatical topics that you have already learned and the relationship of these topics to your current studies, your tutor can help you to address any remedial needs that you might have in order to make your current work as easy as possible. It is no small matter to read authentic literature in a foreign language and, given the specific difficulties of reading and analyzing German literature, personal German 4 tutoring may be the best way to help you surmount these difficulties as quickly and as painlessly as possible.
Your instructor may provide personalized learning materials to help you achieve your goals. You might be told to watch German shows, listen to their music, view artwork, read literature, or otherwise immerse yourself in the culture. In addition, your tutor can serve as the perfect conversation partner. He or she can provide instant feedback on your grammar, pronunciation, and more to make sure that you aren't forming bad habits.
Whether you merely want to do well in your particular course, are looking forward to AP studies, or are perhaps going to study German history, language, or literature in studies abroad, your current success in this rigorous course can be greatly helped by the personalized attention afforded by a language tutor. Tutors are selected both for their subject mastery as well as their ability to teach complex topics, like many of the grammatical and linguistic subjects that are covered in German 4. When learning a language, personalized assistance that is attentive to your particular strengths and weaknesses is particularly helpful. Language is learned incrementally and your tutor can help you to make the adjustments needed to gain fluency in German, mastering the translations and conversations that face you in this year of studies.
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Recent German 4 Tutoring Session Notes
The student and I spent most of this time working on his paragraph for Mandarin. The topic was Chinese New Year and he had to write about the traditions, when it started, what animal this lunar year was, as well as how long it lasted. Most of the material he translated himself while I corrected his grammar and provided vocabulary he did not know. After he finished his paragraph, I had him read it out loud, and his intonation is getting better. His character writing is also improving, but he could use a little more work on his stroke order when writing characters.
In this class, we talked about the family. We learned the sentence structure "how many people are there in your family". Then they learned to identify different familial terms, such as mother, father, sister and brother. Then we learned to count from one to thirty. I also played their favorite Chinese songs for them.
The student had some homework from school he needed help with. It involved filling in some blanks in two dialogues. I explained what any unknown words meant and guided him to fill the blanks in correctly.
The student was very focused today, which was great to see. He studied for his dictation test and helped write a new sentence that he will copy each day during the week for extra practice. He worked hard in his workbook. I explained that I see my job as helping him become more independent and that he will learn better if he practices finding the answers himself.
We introduced the verb of location "zai" and practice using it when describing the location of objects. We continued to practice pronunciation and tones. We then finished the lesson by testing her listening skills.
Had a great first session with the student! We learned the four tones and PinYin as well as some basic Chinese characters. He did quite well as a beginner. We deed to practice more on the tones and PinYin.
