Award-Winning Phonics Tutors in Mountainview, CA

...in Anthropology. Soon after, I spent a year in Chile teaching English to college students. I realized that teaching was my passion and decided to go back to school to pursue my Master's degree in TESOL from San Jose State University. I have experience tutoring and mentoring people of all ages and from all walks of life, from children in an after-school program to adult immigrants learning English. I love tutoring because I can focus...

...academic-life balance, and strategies to make sure they benefit the most from their time in and out of the classroom. I most enjoy tutoring Latin and writing. I love helping students with their essays and showing them how to build an effective argument because the ability to communicate and demonstrate one's critical thinking is one of the best tools anyone can have in any field of study. I love teaching and tutoring Latin because to...

...mountains. I also enjoy live music and attend many small shows in San Jose as well as some bigger concerts in the bay area. I love cooking as well. I am very passionate about food, I eat a vegan diet, and I try to only eat local and seasonal foods. I am always creating some kind of new, experimental meal for my roommate and I. If I could chose a dream hobby, I would go...

...university, I feel burdened to help the next generation achieve their academic goals. Going to UC Berkeley has taught me to appreciate the beauty within the little things while also understanding the importance of greater things, like the SATs! I majored in molecular and cell biology, with an emphasis in neurobiology, and love everything about science! From chemistry to biology, the intricacies of the human body never cease to fascinate me and I hope that...

...enthusiasm for learning. They brighten my days. I teach and tutor students in a variety of subjects, including Writing, Reading, Literature, History, and Public Speaking. With a Master’s Degree in ESL, I also teach and tutor ESL. I have a Bachelor’s Degree in Writing from Ohio State University and a Doctoral Degree in Drama & Theatre from the University of Hawaii at Manoa. For five years, I held a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of...

...Luis Obispo, with a Bachelor of Science in Biology and Microbiology. I am also trained as a Journalist. I worked as a section Editor and Copy-editor at The Channels, the award-winning weekly student newspaper at Santa Barbara City College. I have tutored AP Biology and AP Chemistry to high school students here in L.A., and I have tutored Biology to both introductory level college students and Biology majors. I think understanding the concepts of living...

...as a Second Language (ESL) and my Bachelor’s degree in English literature. I also passed some courses of the PhD program in Education with a concentration on Literacy at Oklahoma State University before I moved to California. My teaching interests and experience include literacy instruction, teaching composition, and reading at all levels from developmental to advanced, reading and writing pedagogies, English Literature, and teaching ESL courses at all skill areas. By providing students with tutoring...

...State University, where I got my Master's degree in History, with an emphasis on gender and race in 20th century America. I received my Bachelor's degree from UC-Berkeley in 2008, where I majored in American History and minored in Gender and Women's Studies. In between undergraduate and graduate school, I was the Assistant Director of a tutoring company in Wisconsin for three years, where I tutored students of all ages in a variety of subjects,...

...and then working for two years as a substitute teacher and one on one tutor of children who could not attend mainstream schools. I loved the opportunity to live and work abroad and travel during my vacations, but I’m now happy to be back in my hometown, closer to my family, and living in the beautiful San Francisco Bay area. In my free time I like to read, folk dance, and hike or bike in...

...my spare time, I enjoy traveling, reading, playing guitar, and studying foreign languages (I can converse in French, Spanish, German, and Vietnamese, though I'm not quite ready to teach them). Above all, I love to learn; I can get myself interested in almost any subject (thanks, Wikipedia!). I truly believe that education is the most important thing in the world, and I'm glad to be able to do my small part in furthering it.