Award-Winning Japanese Tutors in Blue Island, IL

I believe that learning is personal and ought to be personalized- as a passionate student with ADD myself, I know how frustrating it is to have the desire to learn and comprehend new concepts but need help outside of the conventional classroom to do so. I hope to provide this help to my fellow student...

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...learnable, and getting a -0 or -1 is well within anyone's reach. A little about my experience, I have been teaching in Asia on-and-off for about 3 years now. I have taught English in Japan, Taiwan, and South Korea. This has made me much better at explaining concepts and visually representing ideas. I have also...

I am a very passionate learner and I would be delighted to share that love for learning to other students. My empathetic mindset, work ethic, and persistence for success is what I value most about myself and how it can positively impact others.... My philosophies behind teaching are that there is not a single method to learn a subject, but multiple approaches to learning it. My belief is that using all the resources acquirable will lead to a far more optimal learning experience. It will also reveal which methods are more suitable to the student. Finally, I believe that learning should never be rushed. It is far more important to have a firm basis for understanding and a thorough understanding so that building upon it can lead to a successful learning process.

...a great way to expand understanding of how other students think and develop ideas, and it allows myself to see new ways to look at problems. While I'm not studying (or helping my friends study), I love to play music (piano, flute, guitar), take a walk through the forest preserve, draw, design/sew clothing, chat with...

...put myself in the place of others, as I have in the past relied on tutors to get me through some tough topics. As for other interests outside tutoring, I am very interested in languages and linguistics, as I currently teach graduate and undergraduate linguistics at Northeastern Illinois University. Outside my day job, I run...

...and Spanish language thru school and family. In later years, I started to train Capoeira, which is an Afro-Brazilian Martial Art. There, too, I have served as a musical and language tutor to other members of the group. I figured, why not use my abilities for a company that could actually benefit from someone like...

...achieve a holistic understanding of the subject so that they benefit from it long after they have left my tutoring sessions. In doing this, I like to stick to universal principles, which are abundant in mathematics; a set of few simple rules can get you very far in mathematics. Of course, all of this takes...

...school and college, often to my peers, primarily in writing and mathematics. I work carefully with students to bring out clarity and richness of expression in their writing. Essays are essentially portraits of your character and logical flow, which is often where students are lost, is crucial towards creating a compelling voice. Mathematics is similar;...

...because I am thrilled when I see others achieve, and I would love to be part of the process. In addition to high school AP courses and test prep, I have taken college level multivariable calculus, linear algebra, physics electricity/magnetism and mechanics, computer programming (c++, matlab, LISP/Scheme), Dynamics of Systems, and Mechanics of Systems.