Award-Winning High School English Tutors serving Minnesota

...and/or Spanish. I have experience with a wide range of age groups and subjects. At Project for Pride in Living, I volunteered as a tutor, helping middle schoolers improve their literacy skills after school. As a GED classroom assistant at Hubbs Center for Lifelong Learning, I helped adult learners study for the RLA (reasoning through...

I enjoy teaching math because to the student who doesn't understand, it is a riddle with no answer. By teaching them how to recognize the type of problem and how to decode the clues, the student gets to be on the other side of the riddle, the side on which they solve it and feel...

...catch all of the other elements necessary to a successful piece of writing. At different levels style involves being aware of the piece's intended audience, understanding voice, and generally making smart choices that make a piece of writing best serve its intended purpose. While writing is a skill that is required across all academic fields...

I'm a St. Paul editor with experience with both teaching and standardized testing.

...the International School of Geneva, Switzerland. I am passionate about teaching. As an artist, I am always seeking creative solutions to problems. This is part of why I am drawn to teaching. The act of teaching/tutoring requires creativity and awareness. As a tutor, I think it's important for me to be able to adapt my...

A good tutor is someone who understands your learning needs and desires, and adapts their teaching style to meet those needs. Learning should be an interactive process, with the tutor and the one being tutored offering equal conversation and interacting in meaningful ways together. The best tutors are able to balance the need for specific...

...an alternative high school for the past 2 years so I have experience working with 15-21 year olds. Before that, I served as a Peace Corps Vounteer in El Salvador and worked with my local community's school to teach English and tutor in Spanish. There, I worked with 5-20 year olds. Additionally, in college I...

...of obtaining my substitute teaching license for the coming school year. I love to tutor writing and reading! My style involves brainstorming about a prompt and asking intentional questions to get students excited about literature and writing. In my free time, I enjoy playing guitar, knitting, and biking around the Twin Cities.

I'm an English Literature Major and Creative Writing Minor. My strengths are essay writing, college-level reading and writing, GRE verbal/analytical writing prep, and conversational Spanish. I believe that tutoring should be collaborative and that the tutor and client need to work together for the client's success. I also believe that all tutoring should build upon...

...IB test prep, and MCAT prep, especially reading and biology sections. After graduating from the University of Minnesota in 2009 with a B.A. in Theatre and minor in Public Health, I taught English to K-6 students in Seoul, South Korea for two years. I served for a summer as an AmeriCorps Summer Reads VISTA, tutoring...

As a tutor, I strive to put scaffolding in place so that students can succeed on their own. That means my approach adapts to a student's individual strengths, interests, and goals. I have a deep respect for the process of learning. In my experiences as a learner and a teacher, I have seen how small...

...I earned a master's of teaching at Dominican University in Illinois and graduated with a B.A in Geography and Urban Studies from Macalester College. I currently am taking a break as a classroom teacher and am working on a political campaign in Minneapolis. In my free time, I love watching and playing sports, playing the...

I am an accomplished educator and professional with extensive experience in higher education and accounting. I hold a PhD in Education from the University of Rochester and am currently pursuing a Master of Accountancy at the University of Minnesota, where I maintain a perfect GPA. I am preparing for the CPA exam and have significant...

...to the English test is knowing the rules. Most students, as native English speakers, know grammar rules intuitively. This is great for writing, but not as helpful on the ACT, where questions are often written purposely to trip up students' intuitions. I make sure students know the rules, and work to undo their instinct to...

I am excited to be a part of learning, transferring knowledge and the wonder of the creative experience. My background has been in Human Resources and for the last two years I have been working in education. I have a degree in English and French from the University of Minnesota. My current pursuit is a...

...in copy writing. Oh, and I'm a rock climber, writer and owner of a farmer's market stand! I believe that good writing is concise, clear and to the point. The first priority is always the argument or thesis. Everything else--grammar, syntax, vocabulary--comes next. Apart from that, it's important to know that writing doesn't have to...

...you come in. So if you want college-grade instruction from a professional academic and scholar, I'm your man! Teaching is my life; I love connecting with students and helping them accomplish their goals. I grew up in New England and moved out to the Twin Cities for school. I stayed because it's a lovely place...

...year. My experience teaching both English and Spanish confirmed my fascination with language; I am half-way through an MA in linguistics at the University of Minnesota. This past year, I have tutored three elementary and middle school students, particularly focusing on math skills. I also worked as a teaching assistant for an Introduction to Linguistics...

...testing (I achieved perfect or near perfect results on most of the tests I took despite starting with fairly average results on first attempt), developing good study skills, and much more. As a result of my own journey, I know for a fact how much more we are all capable of gaining and doing if...

...the power of the English language. However, some of us are better at harnessing that power than others. That's why I'm here to help! I want to help bring out your voice and your talents through my thoughtful, empathetic tutoring style. My goal is to help you reach levels of writing and comprehension that you...