Award-Winning Middle School Math Tutors for Students in Laguna Niguel, CA

...planning and meeting facilitation. These roles required a high degree of accountability and loyalty and deeply shaped my approach to building collaborative work environments conducive to life-long learning and critical analysis. I am an avid reader, runner, and cat lover. I love to try new foods, meet new people, and explore different cultures. Learning languages and keeping up with current events are probably my biggest pastimes. I am also huge on community service and student...

...students learn and understand how the world works is an amazing feeling. Many students find information learned at school is not important in the "real world". I want to show my students what they are learning is very important and how society today uses these tools today. From personal experience I realize its difficult to learn in some classroom settings as the teachers move so quickly without explaining the details of problems. I try to...

...Differential Equations, Statics, Dynamics, and Physics. Since I have been in 6th grade, I tutored my three younger siblings in many math and science courses up to Trigonometry/Algebra II and Geometry. I was also a fishing counselor for two summers at Roughing It Day camp, and I worked with kids from the ages of 3 up to 16 years old. I have always had a passion for solving puzzles and understanding how things work, leading...

...on the weekdays by cooking, gardening or gaming. On the weekends, you can find me surfing or snowboarding. My love for tutoring began when I was a junior in high school, and I have been actively involved in peer tutoring ever since. From algebra to biology and speech, I tutored my peers to success. In college, I once again found myself attracted to tutoring by helping students master the concepts behind biology, organic chemistry, and...

...an undergraduate and graduate student, I have been a Teaching Assistant for various undergraduate psychology courses, including Cognitive Psychology, Biopsychology, Intro Psychology, Statistics, and Research Methods. As a Teaching Assistant, I have tutored students in one-on-one settings and in group settings, such as review sessions before exams. As evidenced by my educational background and future goals, I have a passion for expanding my knowledge in psychology, as well as helping other students succeed. When I...

...goals. I love individual tutoring, because it allows me to make a study plan that is tailored to my clients, and helps me ensure that their individual learning style is taken into account. I love motivating students with energetic, active, fun tutoring sessions, and there's nothing more rewarding than watching students gain confidence in their abilities to tackle the material at hand. As your tutor, I promise to be flexible and patient, but I will...

...California State University San Marcos. Since completing the credential program in 2008, I have worked as a high school science teacher at a large private high school in the area. In the six years that I have been teaching, I've had the opportunity to teach a variety of courses including: General Biology, Chemistry, AP Environmental Science, Marine Biology, and Honors Anatomy and Physiology. For the past three years, my focus has been on the latter...

...began tutoring students in high school for science and math and picked up private tutoring for calculus and physics in college. I graduated UC Irvine as a biology major and a psychology minor. I enjoy private tutoring because it gives me an opportunity to alter my teaching habits and see which style best fits the student's learning ability. I enjoy teaching math and sciences because I see them as a puzzle and a challenge for...

...in Evolution, Ecology, and Biodiversity and Psychology. I love doing research with animals, which is why I interned in several projects during my stay at UCD. Besides my love for nature, I also enjoy math. It is the main subject I tutor in, and I find it very rewarding helping students understand different mathematical concepts. I have had previous experience in this subject with students from all grade levels. I also tutor in conversational Spanish,...

...I hope to become the kind of therapist that families, including our soldiers and veterans, will come to when they need help. While I have been working on my education, I have spent the last several years as a para-educator teaching children of immigrants in California for the "No Child Left Behind" program at an elementary school. I also edit and tutor writing composition for individual clients in middle school and high school using APA...

I am a very dedicated and responsible person. I hope to only help students feel comfortable asking me anything they need help with. I have a great deal of patience and determination to help students fully understand topics they need help with. I have had immense tutoring experience, tutoring for the past 6 years. I look forward to tutoring students and helping them succeed in their future endeavors. ... Making sure the student fully understands the...

...in your area your interest. This is achieved by identifying your level of understanding, making sure you know or learn any needed background information, and to also sometimes explain and give you an insight into the motivation for the formulas, techniques or procedures pertaining to the subject at hand, and relating them to different examples and applications in real life in order to make them less abstract. In whichever approach I may take, in the...

Teaching goes two ways: I will provide guidance and support, and the student will provide materials and willingness to learn.

I have been a math tutor for the last four or five years. I love helping students to understand their full potential in school. I am patient and understanding, and I am happy to explain a concept as many times and in as many different ways as necessary for a student's understanding. I believe that all students have different learning styles, and they will be much more successful when they learn to utilize those styles.

"You must do the thing you think you cannot do." ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

...a private tutor for four years tutoring all levels of math from elementary math to AP Calculus (except Stats). I am patient and will take time to assess where a student is struggling and then address any misunderstandings of math concepts. My personal philosophy of teaching is that anyone can learn mathematics if they put enough effort and persevere. It may not come easy to understand it at first but with the right instruction and...

Hello! My name is Sydney Ellis and I just recently graduated from the University of San Francisco. Before I attended college, I was in the PACE program at Long Beach Poly. I took and passed AP Statistics my senior year and also took Business Statistics when I was a freshman in college. Also, I was a tutor for Statistics for 3 years at USF, tutoring specifically freshman and sophomores in college!

...Elementary School in Los Angeles in September of that year, the school was 89% far below basic in their math skills. There are different skill levels created for understanding student's math skills. Basic students have a basic understand of arithmetic, below basic students are having a hard time understanding math concepts, far below basic students don't understand anything about math. Many can't count! At the end of year, in June, Harmony Elementary was one of...

Hi! I love teaching math and science. I'm currently a student at Harvey Mudd studying engineering. I love explaining and making sure students understand ideas conceptually and are then able to apply these concepts on their own!

Hello, my name is Sotonye Briggs. I am currently a junior at CSULB. My hobbies are drawing, reading, writing, learning new languages, traveling, poetry, math, music, and video games. I look forward to working with the students. We strive to help the student succeed. We make studying an easy process, incorporating the student's learning style making increasing success.