Award-Winning Mandarin Chinese Tutors in Beaverton, OR

...non-native speakers for two years, and recently I have been teaching Chinese with little kids. I've found that before age 6, kids can quickly and correctly learn tones, and after 6 they can learn characters and strokes and better understand sentence structure. No matter what ages my students are, I like to use games and role playing to practice with them, because it's fun and applicable to real-life conversations. I like to have students practice...

...in Nagoya, Japan. I have also lived in Florence, Italy for a year studying fashion design, and lived in NYC for over 12 years being a fashion designer. I have moved to Portland, Oregon 2 years ago and loving the closeness with nature surroundings and the beautiful forests here. I'm passionate about languages and sharing different cultures, I also enjoy being creative and spend time doing my art projects. I have many experiences teaching languages...

...many problems to their core components, and after finding similar patterns with the types of questions asked, I realized how I could easily excel in standardized tests. After a summer teaching English in China and a whole school year as an active teaching assistant (personalized tutoring and lab instruction), I hope to continue my involvement with tutoring at Varsity Tutors! I've had extensive experience with Speech and Debate throughout high school, which not only helped...

...including writing, music, biology, and mathematics. I've worked as a graduate school TA and been responsible for designing lectures at the graduate level. I've worked abroad and within the United States with language learners hoping to increase their mastery of English. I look forward to finding a way to find how you learn best for yourself, in the hope that you can apply what you learn over an entire lifetime and not just on this...

I am a passionate writer, and my interests are wide-ranging: I have studied and written about prison education, cultural studies, and art criticism. My goal as a teacher is to help bring my love of composition, history, Chinese, and many other subjects to students who want to expand and solidify their own knowledge. I am also a contributing editor of the magazine Guernica where I work with writers on pieces about things like virtual reality,...

...Chinese tutor for two kids (age six and thirteen) from one American family who was living in China, as well as an adult from Australia. Through my teaching experiences, I’ve found I teach language in a friendly, patient, and interesting way. I also earned my Master's Degree in Academy of Art University in San Francisco, majoring in Fashion Merchandising. I worked for a jewelry company and a home fashion textile company back in San Francisco...

...I am involved in working as a part time tutor. I have taught math from algebra, geometry to calculus II and difference equations. Teaching is not just passing the knowledge but inspiring students to learn and to be a problem solver. I also taught my three sons in their Math courses from middle school to high school. Michael graduated from Oxford University in UK, Fred and Felix are college students in Williams College and Brown...

...are presented the right method. My education in more advanced courses allows me to provide students with more resources and multiple perspectives that would promote their understanding of the materials. In addition, my teaching positions and knowledge have equipped me with the most up-to-date information and resources for student learning and effective instruction. I like presenting my students with interesting examples and applications for the topics we work on. I believe students learn better when...

My aim as a tutor is to help students to achieve their personal potential so that they feel confident with the subject material and learn skills that help them to learn independently through their future studies.... My teaching philosophy is to help students with the course material by guiding them to a point of understanding and confidence with what they are learning. I feel it is most important for me to help students figure out a process of finding the answers without blatantly telling them the answer, as well as encouraging them to develop good study habits and a confidence in their own abilities.

...goals. Since graduating from Connecticut College in 2010, I have worked as a teacher to students of all ages: from 3 on up. I have taught in the US, in China, in classrooms, at summer camps, in the outdoors, all over. I have a liberal arts background. I graduated with a focus on Chinese language, but studied history, philosophy, math, science, art, music, and literature among other subjects. I look forward to helping you find...