Award-Winning HSPT Tutors in Inglewood, CA

...a Socratic dialectic method or through vocabulary games. For example, this past year I linked students' knowledge of the Hunger Games to rigorous dystopian texts by Ray Bradbury. The students learned to analyze complex literary themes from the book to pop songs, and created essays and projects comparing dystopian fiction to our own society! I'll...

...Sustainable Development at Columbia University. I have experience tutoring most subjects, but my strengths are test prep, studying and time management skills, and reading, writing, and critical thinking skills at any level. I love helping students find the way that works best for them to approach problem solving and learning. I am very interested in...

...be reliable, accommodating, and challenging in our tutoring sessions. I make it my personal mission to customize each lesson to my students' interests and areas of focus. I enjoy helping my students improve their weaknesses, and I always celebrate their strengths and achievements. In my spare time, I like to play and coach indoor volleyball,...

...we all learn from getting feedback about our composition, we also want to work with a tutor that can help us express our own ideas well. I am interested in helping each client with the key skills that will help them along their career path or enable them to master new subjects.

...in the past with elementary and high school students as well as being a substitute teacher at a number of private schools. In addition, I have enjoyed working as an instructional assistant for over 10 years in special education with moderate to severe and mild to moderate students with various disabilities ranging from Autism, Learning...

...I worked extensively with students of all kinds as a mentor and tutor, helping incoming and current freshman manage their homework and class loads, as well as advising them on college life and resources. I worked as a tutor even before these experiences, as a counselor to middle schoolers during my final two years in...

...school in subjects ranging from writing and math to theology and classical Greek, but I have most frequently worked with students preparing for various standardized tests (having received a perfect score on my SAT in high school). Whenever possible I try to teach using the Socratic method, as I find that the process of guided...

...Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) and a BS in Bioengineering and English from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). I currently work at Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc. as a scientist and will be attending a PhD biomedical engineering program at USC in Los Angeles. I am passionate about math, science, and learning in general....

...least favorite) aspects of school are. I use this information to create a personalized strategy to help them succeed. While I tutor a range of subjects, I'm most passionate about those areas that involve writing and language--whether I'm helping students write personal essays for their college applications or preparing them for the Verbal Reasoning section...

...counseling settings as well as academic contexts. I found myself continuously drawn toward the academic realm, and in January of 2012 I entered a Master of Arts and teaching credential program in Special Education at the California State University, Dominguez Hills. For the past three years, I have been tutoring students in elementary, middle school,...