Award-Winning High School English Tutors serving Portsmouth, VA

...towards a Master's Degree in Physical Education and her Personal Training Certification. She is a former au pair and nanny who loves to tutor any subject, especially foreign languages! Meg has been a substitute teacher for nearly 7 years and she enjoys helping students achieve their very best. Her teaching style is unique, listening and positive feedback being its main components. Outside of the tutoring classroom, Meg enjoys snowboarding, soccer, running and reading. She loves...

From the first day of kindergarten, I have loved and embraced academics! Since school has come easily to me, I'd love to help others overcome their academic challenges and start to enjoy studying!

...involved in community, and charitable work as well. In addition, I led a course of Court Room Law for middle school, where our team won the competition in the district. Another joy in my life has been teaching Introductory Debate for the STEM program for Gifted students for the College of William & Mary. I firmly believe that we must continue to encourage our students to become world citizens by including current events, primary source...

...some young adults in different subjects such as English, Math, and Spanish for the past four years. I enjoy tutoring others and helping them understand difficult concepts by using simple methods and ideas! I like to work with each student and adopt a tutoring method that is unique to them and their pace of learning. I am also very passionate in helping students improve in academic subjects and get excited when they show progress through...

...in Education from William and Mary's School of Education. This year will be my sixth year teaching in Virginia. I have taught gifted classes, core classes, and inclusion classes specializing in special education management. I love helping students figure out the best way to understand a subject and where their strengths lie. I am especially passionate about writing and poetry. In my free time, I love video games, reading, writing poetry, toiling in my garden,...

I will make it the ultimate goal of every student I tutor to understand absolutely everything that they have trouble with. I aim to help with critical thinking and inquiry so that the student not only solves the problem, but understands the concepts and where they need to be used.

...each student to discover how he or she learns best. I am a middle school social studies teacher and am knowledgeable in many areas of history. My favorite subject to tutor is history! My favorite history subject is world history. I also enjoy tutoring United States history. I have experience tutoring world geography, United States history, and world history. I facilitate an after school academic support program at my school. I look forward to working...

...and taught Sunday school for 2nd graders at my church. I participated in a summer internship my sophomore year called SWIFT (Severe Weather In Field Training) where myself and a team of students and faculty spent several weeks in the mid-west forecasting and chasing sever weather. My junior year I interned at the United States Naval Research Laboratory with Dr. Steven Ackleson where I assisted in his research on particle aggregation in the water column....

...they are learning any way possible. I will tutor them one way, and if they don't understand the material, I will try another way. I don't stop until they understand and feel comfortable with the material. If after 10 min they still don't understand the material, I will move onto another subject or another problem and then come back to what we were struggling with. I try to incorporate different items into the tutoring session...

I am a 4th-year student at Gardner-Webb University focusing on Pre-Medicine in the Biomedical program and will be receiving my Spanish medical certification upon graduating. I have tutored for most of my life simply because I like helping people. My favorite subject is math, as is evidenced by the subjects I am tutoring in. I love English and creative writing as well.

...attainable milestones. I have fostered and tutored three nieces into advanced programs and honor rolls in their schools through my method of engaging their skills with real world applications, and showing them how all of these skills are used in our society in various ways. This provides motivation and purpose and takes the subject from one of "a required knowledge" to one that they see as valuable and worth investing their time with. I love...

I have not only a passion for learning, but I have a passion for teaching others as well. I am especially interested in science and math as they are the main two subjects that drive the world forward and give us new technologies that may some day change the world.

...can and will be successful if you give it your all and remain positive! With a positive attitude, perseverance and perfect practice, an incredible learning experience is possible! Remember, perfect practice makes perfect! In my spare time, I love to sing (I am apart of my church choir), dance (Latin dancing), read about public health issues and create issues for some of the problems in underprivileged populations, travel, volunteer, watch action movies, bowl and create...

...start to understand the subject at hand and feel more comfortable and confident in their classroom to answer questions and when they are doing assignments. I worked with students throughout my high school career mostly with English and essay structuring. With working with them I have been able to help them become more confident in their writing and allow them to better formulate their sentences. I have worked with people from the ages of 14-19...

Hello! I am a recent graduate who is currently teaching English in France. I double majored in Environmental Sciences and French. I believe learning should be fun and that students will retain information better if they understand how it is pertinent to their own lives.

...skill ourselves, to construct knowledge and understanding in our own thoughts and words. If there's no YOU DO in the classic I DO-WE DO-YOU DO sequence, then it's not learning, it's preaching. I try to meet students where they are, to assess your prior knowledge, skills, and experience and collaborate with you to come up with a plan for what knowledge and skills you want to develop and what intermediate steps do we need to...

...at Oregon State University. I've studied critical and creative writing intensively during my college career, and I love sharing my passion and knowledge in my tutoring sessions. I've helped students with multiple types of assignments, including literary and rhetorical analysis, personal essays, lab reports, speeches, resumes and cover letters, outlines, and bibliographies. In my tutoring sessions, I am patient, personable, and enthusiastic. I provide a safe space where students feel comfortable asking questions and taking...

Hello! I'm a prospective grad student looking to earn a little extra cash. I love animals and the arts. I am one of the best electric guitar players in the world right now. I am qualified to teach a variety of subjects and I look forward to working with you towards achieving your goals!

...to teach refugees and earn my CELTA certification. Returning to the States, I spent 6 years teaching in a middle/high school setting, and I currently work in a field where I have the opportunity to train K-12 instructors and provide professional development for instruction and classroom management. My teaching specialties are all things English- composition and writing (both academic writing and creative writing), reading comprehension and literary analysis, grammar and spelling support, editing/proofreading research papers,...

...in students because I know the profound impact that my teachers made on my life. If I hadn't had teachers in high school, college, and law school who were willing to spend their personal time mentoring and tutoring me, I would not have excelled to my current position. Therefore, I endeavor to give others the same one-on-one help that I received. Every student deserves a patient teacher who will help deepen and strengthen the student's...