Award-Winning Phonics Tutors in Buena Park, CA

...Multiple Subject Teaching Credential (K-8). I currently work as a RTI (Response To Intervention) teacher and focus on students who are struggling with reading. Although my current focus is K-5, I have experience working with all grades from K-8th. I have experience tutoring one-on-one and in small groups. I have also worked at a learning...

...passionate about English, History, Math, and the SAT. I am fascinated by the SAT. I love teaching struggling test takers how to view the SAT as an approachable, accessible set of riddles and games instead of as an intellectual brick wall. I firmly believe that the majority of people can find great joy in academics...

...the urgency for students to be able to comfortably and efficiently operate through the mechanics of English as successful contenders in academics and the work force. My commitment to literacy, literature, reading comprehension, rhetoric, and composition comes from the belief that power is embedded in how others represent us and how we represent ourselves. The...

...one-on-one private high school for students with alternative learning styles, and helped these students transform their approach to education. I also prepared them for SAT and ACT Writing and Reading, as well as for college and private high school applications. Currently, I run a free after school program in East LA. I succeed daily in...

...vocabulary games. For example, this past year I linked students' knowledge of the Hunger Games to rigorous dystopian texts by Ray Bradbury. The students learned to analyze complex literary themes from the book to pop songs, and created essays and projects comparing dystopian fiction to our own society! I'll use any creative strategies you need...

...their reading skills, to achieve needed skills to be successful at school. I have always had a passion for teaching. I knew I wanted to be a teacher when I was in kindergarten. I have been in the educational field for 25 years and I still enjoy helping students and seeing their a-ha moments. Outside...

...am most proficient in social studies, having taught it at high school level for over six years. I taught classes in world history, economics and government. However, I am currently working with a 5th grade student who needs to catch up with two years of math and I find myself really enjoying helping this young...

...where I've had the pleasure of teaching for extended periods in both classroom and tutoring settings. Through my work in Los Angeles public schools as well as private tutoring sessions, I've cultivated a tutoring philosophy that is oriented toward student-centered problem solving and confidence building. Under my tutoring, a student will develop their own approach...

...to pursuing academic rigor, I ask my students to work towards increasing physical, spiritual and critical fitness. Children need to exercise not only their bodies, but also train their minds to make good decisions within the constantly changing world. I have found this to be particularly important when it comes to mediating the effects of...

...outdoors and being in nature. I have played sports my entire life so staying active is a big part of who I am. I love Star Wars, playing video games, and most things involving science fiction or fiction, including Harry Potter. That being said, working hard is what has gotten me to where I am...