Award-Winning Phonics Tutors in Coon Rapids, MN

...English for 7 years. I have good strategies in standardized test preparation that will certainly improve your scores, as Ive gone through it myself plenty of times with very good results! My undergraduate degree is in geology from Oberlin College, and I have Master's degrees from the University of Arizona in Geography and UMSS in...

...and became a tutor for numerous courses myself. During my senior year of high school I joined the Air Force, where I would be assigned as an instructor in Washington, DC. After the service, I resumed tutoring through volunteer work with ESL, GED and citizenship exam preparation. Although I am experienced in a plethora of...

...For the past two years, I tutored students in Saint Paul Public Schools with the Minnesota Reading Corps. I’ve also worked with college-bound high school students at the Hamline Young Writers’ Workshop. In my experiences with tutoring, I’ve learned to connect with readers and writers of different age groups and academic backgrounds. I have extensive...

...I love sharing with each student I meet, and value adding to my tool box with each session. My hope is to help students fill in any gaps there may be in their foundational skills, model strategies and tips for academic success, build confidence, and challenge students who need to be stretched. I am extremely...

...and tutoring. I'm super excited to teach with Varsity Tutors because I think getting help and being successful in school should be as easy as hopping on your computer for a few hours a week! I travel a lot and love to try new food. I look forward to working with you!... I like to start by asking questions to get to know my student first. It's important to get to know somebody to understand how they learn. I also like to ask some simple questions to assess my student's knowledge level.

...of Minnesota. I most love helping students discover their power and voice through college essays and projects for their literature courses, but I also love helping students grow in their reading skills and other classes. I believe that every learner has the ability to grow if a good teacher or tutor pushes him or her...

...workshops almost every semester, as well as two summer sessions of graduate poetry workshops, which allowed me to study under the professors of one of the nation's top-rated creative writing MFA programs. I also spent a year studying Japanese at Nanzan University in Nagoya, Japan. My studies in both Japanese and creative writing began in...

...Mass Communication, with a concentration in Women and Gender Studies. Since completing a course training me in tutoring writing, I have worked during the school year as a writing tutor at my university's Writing Workshop. There, I have helped undergraduate and graduate students develop and revise their writing, using specific teaching strategies to promote fluency...

...fade away as soon as the class requirement was fulfilled. I continued learning French against my will as a requirement at the University of Minnesota College of Liberal Arts. A funny thing happened there, however, as I discovered all that knowledge I previously deemed useless started to fall into place. I was retaining more than...

...China. Had a great experience over there and did a lot of tutoring as part of my job. When tutoring we will have as much fun as we can, I like to start and finish my sessions with a quick game and believe that language learning, or any learning for that matter, should be enjoyable....