Award-Winning Literature Tutors serving Tucson, AZ

...working as a private tutor for two years now. I also spent a semester volunteering with a volunteer based organization which focuses on helping Elementary school children who are reading below grade level get caught up and have worked as a writing tutor for about one year now. As you can tell, my specialty is English and writing, but I have also had great success with teaching math, because I am a good communicator. I...

My name is China Rae Newman. I am a recent graduate of the University of Arizona with a Bachelor of Arts with Honors in English and a Bachelor of Science in Biology. I am currently going through the process of applying to medical school, and hope to be admitted into the class of 2021 at the University of Arizona Medical School in Tucson. I have two dogs and I enjoy drawing, writing, and reading in...

...in the afternoon and 'play school' with my stuffed animals, creating and grading worksheets for them. Throughout school, I continued to take every opportunity to assist friends and classmates. Now, in graduate school, I have had the opportunity for training in teaching strategies and philosophy, as well as hands-on work assistant teaching undergraduate psychology courses. I find that I am best at teaching test taking strategies, particularly for the SAT and GRE, and I excel...

...technology that centralize curricula, assessment, reporting, monitoring, and instructional effectiveness in order to make education more accessible to the nation's students. I have both the education and the experience to be of great use as a tutor. With the upcoming implementation of Common Core Standards for Science content areas, I am equipped with the tools and experience in areas both technical and practical to help students adapt to scientific (as well as math and language...

...difficulties you may have. As for my background, I have been tutoring since high school. I have extensive experience tutoring in math, both as a private tutor and with a company. My BA (University of Arizona) and M. Phil. (Trinity College Dublin) degrees are respectively in Creative Writing and in English, and as such, I have a strong background in those subjects as well, which are my favorite to tutor--I enjoy exploring the precision of...

I have been teaching for 26 years in grades 1-8, either as an English Language Specialist or a classroom teacher. I enjoy working with children and discovering the best ways to reach their academic abilities.

I truly find learning to be one of life's most exciting and rewarding experiences! I want to help you be successful and have fun along the way!

Hello, my name is Sydney Sullivan and I am currently a Graduate Teaching Assistant at the University of Arizona. I teach ENGL 101 to undergraduates at the U of A and received my Bachelors in English Literature and minor in Writing from Oregon State University. I love teaching as well as learning from others and I cannot wait to work with you or your students with whatever you may need help on in academia!

Hello: I have been teaching for 11 years; six years in South Korea and five years in the U.S. I have a Master's in Education and my specialties are ESL, reading and writing. I have worked with Elementary and college age. I am a pretty good writer and can help you with papers. Let's get together!

...a passion for the English language. I've spent the last two years working as an ESL/TEFL teacher in Germany. I have a very hands-on method that I believe revolutionizes the way we have traditionally learned languages in the past. Previous to my experience overseas, I have worked as a child caregiver and writing tutor. I hope to make your learning experience fun and to motivate you on your journey to intellectual success!

...this statement, I love history. Getting students to realize the joys of history and to see it as the fantastic unfolding of human events that it is represents one of my favorite experiences as a teacher. As a teacher, I've learned that every student can learn given the right circumstances. As a tutor and teacher, it's my job to work with the student to figure out how they learn so that I know how to...

...impact at Boston College was Goethe's Faust, in two semesters, very rigorous, taught by a German professor, Bloom. He had seven doctorates and fluent in many languages. He was the very embodiment of Goethe, who believe knowledge is a life long endeavor, which I strongly believe in. I want to impart into my students the same philosophy. Law, Literature, Management, Marketing, English, Social Studies, Spanish, Spanish 2, Spanish 3, Spanish 4, US Constitutional History and...

Each person accumulates a different set of skills and specialities during their life. Rather than being afraid to look stupid, it is important to be eager to learn from others. I love spreading my knowledge in a casual environment, and using that to help others achieve their fullest potential!

...in. I am increasingly interested in compositional practices. I've experimented with how film and sound act as a processing event for elucidating feelings / textures / topographies language cannot. this inter-work (play) helps illuminate aesthetic and conceptual obstacles I can share with my students as they are learning their relationship to writing. In the classroom I emphasis the importance of process, revision, and experimentation. failure, in writing, is a necessity. I continue to investigate my...

...to success. As a tutor I am focused on providing individualized solutions to the challenges students face in their intellectual growth. I look for the student's unique perspective and gifts as a means to empower them into techniques for deeper and more effective learning. Outside of tutoring, I am a professional jazz musician and have a decade of experience teaching music. I specialize in woodwind instruments. I look forward to working with students regardless of...

...IEPs to enhance student achievement. I am skilled in addressing student needs and ensuring students will thrive and develop in an adaptable educational atmosphere. My greatest strength is in relationship building with students to gain their respect and trust which encourages them to feel safe to take academic and interpersonal risks for growth and success. I possess excellent interpersonal and communication skills to develop excellent rapport with students and their families. My areas of proficiency...

As an experienced educator with diverse populations and age groups I am an excellent candidate for tutoring. I enjoy working with students and developing a plan to improve their skills and confidence in whatever challenges they may face. I love reading, traveling, walking, and learning about new people, cultures and places. ... My teaching philosophy is that every person and student is capable of learning. My job as a tutor and teacher is to build confidence...

...to learn more about how people learn and understand difficult material. Even in the classroom, I have had to adjust certain reading passages for certain students, change styles of lecture (powerpoint, reading material), and even adjust assignment levels based on the student. Yet in the long run, these changes have shaped me more as a teacher and a learner. Not only is tutoring a great way for me to help students learn their material, but...

...are on the same team working toward the same goal. Outside of academics, I am a bookworm and an avid consumer of movies and TV. I also love to read comic books and write my own stories. I am an artist, and I mainly like to paint and draw. Finally, I have a little garden that I tend to every day, and I harvest my herbs to make teas and natural medicines. Education is my...

...ability to command research and narration across genre lines, from analyzing the convergence of U.S. foreign policy and immigration in Guatemala, published in Yes! Magazine this past June 2019; to short fiction exploring a national security intrigue, published in Thriller Magazine in July; to lyrical nonfiction/memoir in two Middle East border zones, published in Electric Literature in August 2019; to forthcoming work accepted for publication by Foreign Policy and The Progressive magazines. I am currently...