Award-Winning Literature Tutors in Montebello, CA

...had good ideas with people who had access to resources. I have learned to be adaptable through these positions. The Caltech honor code has also been a positive influence in my everyday life, and I hope to emphasize to students the satisfaction and drive that one can obtain by working hard to master difficult material....

...writers re-see their relationship to their own writing. My teaching, tutoring, and editing experience has brought me to the table with learners developing basic writing skills to accomplished PhD students completing their dissertations. All of my work is rooted in a mentoring and coaching relationship with learners of varying cultural backgrounds and levels of confidence...

...English. It has been very rewarding for me to see my students master new skills and concepts and see their test scores improve dramatically. Not only do my students gain better comprehension of the academic material, but I have also found that after completing our tutoring sessions, they are better test takers too. I have...

...rather than viewing them as obstacles. My tutoring methods embrace this philosophy; I facilitate success in students, but they are the ones who achieve improvement! My favorite areas to tutor are all Language Arts areas, and History/Social Studies. In my free time, I enjoy reading, writing, singing, playing piano and ukulele, running, and playing tennis...

...have experience tutoring students in Pre-K through 8th grade, as well as high school students in Special Education. Although I have ample experience tutoring the four core elementary subjects, I am especially fond of English/language arts and social studies. These are by far my favorite school subjects, and I enjoy helping students excel, academically, in...

...but the lighting of a fire." I empower my students to seek answers on their own and develop their critical thinking skills. As a tutor, I structure my teaching around the student's individual interests and needs. For example, one 6th grade student loved to perform onstage, so we wrote a play to explore theme, plot,...

...concentrations in Biology and Philosophy. All of that means that what I know how to do is write about science and use the scientific method to think about writing. I actually find tests very fun and love tutoring verbal and essay SAT prep, but I am always happy to work in Biology, the Health Sciences,...

...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 extended periods in both classroom and tutoring settings....

...though high school age. While a tutor a fair amount of subjects, I sincerely enjoy exploring English, Literature, and French. I love the English and Literatue because both subjects connect deeply to my love for theatre, and I love French because I have lived in France twice; once when I was 7 in Paris, and...

...on Walt Whitman, T.S. Eliot, and Jules Laforgue. Many summers have found me working as a residential assistant for Johns Hopkins University Center for Talented Youth, where I often would run the ever popular Seuss & Silverstein appreciation session. My ultimate goal is to become a high school English teacher and I am interested in...