Award-Winning Literature Tutors in Alpharetta, GA

...students to learn to think critically and to actively engage in texts. I spend a great deal of time modeling and molding those skills. Students need to think deeply and critically at all times and actively engage those practices into their studies. I am a tough grader with high expectations, but I firmly believe in not "lowering the bar". I use my high standards as a driving force towards accomplishment and success. Students come to...

...(MA), and Georgia State University (PhD), I have been actively writing and teaching for nearly twenty years. My areas of expertise include Business Writing, Composition, Creative Writing, Editing, Journalism, Literature, and Rhetoric. I have helped students at the high school and college level prepare for exams and essays with great success. In addition, I regularly write articles, copy, and news for popular and scholarly audiences. My skills as an editor have been honed over the...

...reading, writing, dancing, and drinking a good cup of coffee. I love my friends and family and keep them all very close in my life. I am currently working towards a degree in Early Childhood Education at the University of Georgia. I am looking forward to having a career that I love waking up for each and every morning. I would love to help your child reach their academic goals, and I look forward to...

...there I assisted teaching classes in history and film, gave guest lectures, organized and taught writing workshops, and tutored students in writing and history on an individual basis. I enjoyed my teaching experience at FSU because it allowed me to combine my interest in history and writing. My students reported that as their writing improved, their academic performance improved in all their classes-- even in the sciences. I think the ability to write well cultivates...

...needs. There were no massive classrooms full of forty or fifty kids who all have different educational needs; there was no comparing yourself to your peers; there was no discouragement when a teacher was not available to meet. No - the personalized education I received at Oxford boiled down to only two elements: my own desire to learn, and my professor's desire to teach me. Both are essential elements to any teacher-student relationship. For my...

...Partnerships for Informal Science Education in the Community, a inquiry-based physics education program that focuses on espousing scientific principles throughout the community and making physics and physicists more accessible to elementary and middle school students. I am well-versed in a wide array of subjects, primarily in Physics, Math, and English. At CU-Boulder, my dualistic double major provided me with interaction with many different walks of life as well as learning and teaching styles, in both...

...an event planning company, which allowed me plan a full event in Barcelona. From 2005-2006, I taught high school English as a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. I have also lived in Salvador (Brazil), DC, New York City, and Austin. With experience tutoring French at the university level, and having worked with younger children, and as a Fulbright ETA, in addition to taking AP French, AP U.S. History, AP European History, and AP...

...student is enthusiastic about his or her World History class, without the necessary study skills and an organized backpack of materials, things can quickly fall apart! The years we spend learning in school are the foundation of our careers and the rest of our lives; whether it be an issue with verbal, writing, test, or study skills, improving them with the help of a tutor will not only help the student succeed now, but will...

I'm an engineering student at GA Tech and I'm tutoring because I love working with others to understand things that I know myself. And through teaching, I find that I understand things all the better. During my time off, I enjoy keeping healthy, reading, and watching various kinds of shows from documentaries to TV series to anime. ... Working patiently with people until they make progress in understanding the subject. Understanding things can be really hard and every person learns differently, so honest feedback from my students is vital in recreating my teaching strategies.

...much listening and conversation practice as possible. I also believe that learning should be fun, and that students remember exercises they enjoy. With this in mind I try to incorporate engaging literature, games, videos, and pictures into every lesson. Hopefully at the end of their sessions, students will feel the same passion I do for the subject! I have tutored students as young as ten and as old as seventy in Spanish, Hausa, Japanese, ESL,...