Award-Winning HSPT Tutors in El Monte, CA

...study English because I'm a sucker for good storytelling. I began tutoring during high school when an underclassman's parents asked me to help their son review the material for his algebra class. In college and graduate school, my friends would ask me to proofread their papers or clarify some of the topics from our classes....

...the visual arts at California State University Los Angeles. I started my tutoring career as a volunteer tutor in 2000. From then on, education has been a passion of mine. For the past eight years, I've been a substitute teacher with the Los Angeles Unified School District, where I've had the pleasure of teaching for...

...college, I volunteered with a local literacy specialist to help children with reading difficulties. I've also led fiction writing workshops for elementary school students. I started tutoring because first and foremost I love being a student. Tutoring seemed like a good way to ensure that I continue learning for the rest of my life. People...

...my abilities in music and Spanish. I credit my strong academic background for my extremely well-developed writing, test-taking, and study skills. After graduating from UC Berkeley in 2007, I had many experiences working with youth and children in social services and counseling settings as well as academic contexts. I found myself continuously drawn toward the...

...award-winning student run newspaper, The Observer. I also held internships at CBS Corporate and CBS News during my time there. I started acting when I was a child, and toured the country with the national Broadway tour of Ragtime when I was 10 years old. Since then I have enjoyed balancing my academic life with...

...a great amount of diversity, and I quickly found myself tutoring math to ESL students and always to a wide range of ages and backgrounds. I went on to the University of Minnesota Morris where I continued tutoring math. I was in Thailand for a term; there I had the opportunity to work with a...

...excel in their education, which I support by coming up with creative strategies to motivate them. Together, we'll discover what engages and helps you learn the most, and I will adjust my instruction to fit your learning needs, whether its through a Socratic dialectic method or through vocabulary games. For example, this past year I...

...journey and career as a School Psychologist seeing that I am very passionate about working with children of all backgrounds. I feel rewarded when I see students succeed and achieve their academic goals in life. I have worked as a tutor in the past with elementary and high school students as well as being a...

...I adore the city life. Prior to working with Varsity Tutors, my previous tutoring experiences include three years of freelance tutoring with students mainly in middle school and high school. I also have two years of experience working in a structured teaching environment as an aide for the Long Beach Unified School District. The subjects...

...have also gotten broader. I have a language focus now. I enjoy the richness of the English language and even the challenge of following all of the rules, punctuation, etc. The job of a writing coach is also very important. While we all learn from getting feedback about our composition, we also want to work...