Award-Winning Literature Tutors in San Diego, CA

...New York. There, I received my Bachelor of Arts in English and my Master of Arts in Teaching with a concentration in English. With these degrees, I am certified to teach English grades 7-12 and have taught 7th and 8th grade Language Arts for the past five years. My favorite areas to teach and tutor are English, Literature, History and especially Writing. I love reading young adult fiction and relating it to my own life...

...of Arts in English Education and went on to receive a Master of Arts in English from San Diego State University. For the past three years my pursuit of and passion for education took me to San Antonio, Texas, where I worked on my PhD in English at the University of Texas at San Antonio. My wife and I have moved back to the San Diego area both to pursue our own teaching careers (my...

...a current graduate student at San Diego State University getting my Masters in Public Health. I have always had a genuine passion for helping children with their academics, this was most likely derived from my experience with helping my 3 younger sisters with their homework. In the past year I have been fortunate enough to gain professional experience tutoring also, and am quite confident I can be of help to younger students in a variety...

...University, although I grew up in Northern California (Mountain View to be exact). I have experience teaching a wide variety of subjects but math and science are by far my favorites. My goal as a tutor is to make these challenging subjects easily accessible for my students. I have taught students of all ages and find it particularly rewarding to work with those who have learning challenges. In my free time, I love reading mysteries,...

...to learn what education can not only help them achieve in society, but personally as well. Teaching is an endeavor designed to promote innovative, critical thinking through personal, emotional, and interdependent growth. Through teaching, I aim to show students their personal strengths through literacy and the power of the written word; I intend to help students realize that strengths are a separate entity from weaknesses. Through focusing my teaching on strength-based education by scaffolding curriculum...

...myself, so I have recent (successful) experience writing College Application Essays. With over ten years of experience in academic writing, I am available to look at any type of school essay for areas in need of improvement. Be it the five-paragraph essay, preparation for the SAT essay portion, or an MLA paper on the literary themes of Shakespeares Othello, I am well-equipped to assess your essay the way a teacher or professor would. More than...

...and my Ph.D. in Molecular Biology from the Scripps Research Institute. The subjects I tutor are math (geometry, algebra/trigonometry, calculus), chemistry, biology and astronomy, as well as test prep for the SAT, GRE and LSAT. I have some experience in college teaching, but most of what I have done is one-on-one instruction of college students and graduate students in a laboratory, as well as helping my 11-year old son with homework. I really prefer teaching...

...University of California San Diego, where I research topics involving language acquisition and social cognition. I received my Bachelor of Arts from the University of Texas at Austin in Linguistics, French, and Plan II Honors (a four-year interdisciplinary honors program), with a minor in Japanese. I work as a teaching assistant for UCSD, and enjoy helping my students whenever they need assistance with either subject material or administrative matters. I am well qualified to tutor...

...attended the University of Idaho I would go on camping trips and eat dinner with my English teachers and Philosophy teachers so I could discuss ideas with them. At UCLA I studied film, but I would spend any extra time I had in the offices of renown History and Philosophy teachers. I sat in on their classes, even though I was not officially enrolled, and even interviewed some of them for public television. At the...

...degree in Communications. In college, I was fortunate enough to hold several research positions with one of the foremost scholars of Child Development and Education Studies, Professor Olga Vasquez. Under Professor Vasquez, I studied the 25 year old program "La Clase Magica", which integrated UCSD students with ethnically diverse, low income communities and youth all over San Diego county through an after school education curriculum. The principles of the program are that children can learn...