Award-Winning GRE Tutors in Novato, CA

...of San Francisco. Before that, I attended Cal Poly - San Luis Obispo and earned my B.S. in Biology with an emphasis in Human Anatomy & Physiology and a minor in Biotechnology. Throughout college, I helped many of my fellow students learn more and get better grades in a wide variety of classes by helping...

...Consciousness program at UC Santa Cruz in 2012, and have since been teaching classes in the arts, writing, philosophy, and environmental studies at UC Santa Cruz. I love teaching and working with people to improve their confidence in thinking, analysis, and writing. I love to surf, bike, and take my dogs to the beach.

...changed and grown through a plethora of environments. Most significantly, I have had the privilege to engage in educational research in conjunction with onsite student teaching. Both experiences have significantly shaped my personal views on education, and have instilled within me a passion to design and teach a rigorous and culturally relevant curriculum that can...

...I've often been my friends' informal editor! In my free time, I love to write, read, and watch movies. I love to ski, though I seldom go. I love to travel. I love to go on bike rides with friends, or sometimes just grab a book and go explore the Berkeley hills on my own....

...college coursework in math, physics, chemistry, biology, and the humanities while also completing my high school education. After graduating I began my undergraduate education at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, Massachusetts, recently ranked by US News as the number one university in the country. At MIT I am pursuing a degree in...

...the transformative importance of learning, and strive to communicate that passion to my students. I have extensive experience tutoring across many ages, subjects, and cultures and countries. I am particularly skilled in SAT/standardized test tutoring, math subjects, and English writing and literature. I emphasize critical thinking skills, flexible and adaptive thinking, and learning structures such...

...to read to Masters' students trying to perfect their theses. I am interested in a broad variety of topics (I completed two majors and two minors in college), and I am great at explaining complicated concepts in ways that are easy to understand. I also know a lot of great test-taking strategies, so I'd be...

...languages and enjoy tutoring in these subjects most. I have extensive experience as an academic tutor. I worked one-on-one with a middle school student as an academic tutor and mentor throughout my college career at the University of Michigan. I work in all subject areas, including math and science. I am patient, a good listener,...

...when I decided I wanted to teach more subjects. I also tutor Spanish; I've been learning Spanish since I was four years old and have been to Mexico and Spain. I love speaking Spanish and cooking Mexican food! I love reading and learning new things, and my greatest satisfaction in this job comes from seeing...

...the first steps in my approach is to help students develop confidence in their "expertise" as language users, no matter what their previous experience has been with reading and writing tasks in English classes. Building on those strengths is key to learning how writing differs from speaking and why (and when) the conventions of grammar,...