Award-Winning Phonics Tutors in The Woodlands, TX

I started tutoring professionally in 2002 while I was in college. In 2004, I tutored English, French, Latin, and constitutional government for Baylor University's Student-Athlete Services and stayed there the first two years of law school. I love working with foreign languages. I speak English natively, French fluently, and Spanish and Arabic proficiently. I also can read and write Arabic.

...from the University of California-Berkeley in Iberian Studies and Art Practice, an M.A. from the University of Alabama in Elementary Education, and I am close to completing a second M.Ed. in Advanced Literacy from Concordia University Texas. I am currently completing my practicum to become a certified Reading Specialist. I work with struggling readers and guide teachers towards being better literacy instructors. I love helping my students and colleagues through their struggles, just as I...

...up students' confidence to help them achieve their goals. I like to make a genuine connection with each student and continually look for ways to make learning fun! After graduating cum laude with a bachelor's degree from Marist College in psychology/special education, I completed my master's degree in literacy at the State University of New York at Albany. I have taught for ten years as a special educator, classroom teacher and literacy specialist. I have...

...of my professional work has involved helping people to communicate. I love to teach writing, and I am as comfortable reviewing academic papers as I am teaching junior high and high school students. At the University of Texas, I worked with many ESL authors who, although experts in their field, felt uncomfortable publishing in a second language. It was my job to guide them through grammatical and stylistic changes so that their hard work could...

...love working on projects, helping with homework, and having fun! I am great at catering to each child's educational needs and making sure that my students retain and understand the information we learn. I am comfortable working with children of all ages I have experience working with children with Asperger Syndrome, ADD, and ADHD. I graduated top of my class in May 2013 from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, earning my Bachelor...

...writing, editing, and construction. I have experience speaking publicly and crafting concise speeches. I will approach each tutoring session professionally and promptly, building on desired knowledge areas and honing areas that need work with unique strategies and endless passion for learning and bettering ourselves. As I teach, I hope to impart not just subject matter but a desire for further learning, and to invigorate students through shared interests and basic human desires to succeed.... Every student has different strengths, and as we learn, we learn what these strengths are. I will maximize ability while minimizing failure. I aim to do this through fun and discovery of passion for the subject matter.

...prep, English, literature, writing, math, and social sciences. My undergraduate degree is from Wellesley College and my masters is from Harvard, so while I've spent seven years in Boston's frigid clime, I love being back in my hometown. I have "itchy feet," according to my dad--I love to travel, and have been to more than 20 countries. I lived in South Africa for two years on a research fellowship, and I studied Arabic in Egypt....

...as the year progresses. I consider myself to be an incredibly fun and enthusiastic teacher, but it is also very important for me to show my students the importance of discipline. I try to balance teaching my students boundaries with a lot of love and tenderness. Some of my students have come to even forget to call me by my name and instead call me "mom." I think it is incredibly important to inspire students...

My personal philosophy is that you can do anything you put your mind to. If you struggle with something, just know that it's OK. Life is a struggle, but believe and have faith that it is simply a life lesson. We learn while we are in the struggle. I am passionate about our future generation and want to be here for you... My teaching philosophy is that ALL students are able to learn what they want to learn. If you put your mind to it and think positive you can succeed and accomplish anything. Don't rush, take your time, and it will come.

...the grades it took to get to college, so I understand the problems of the struggling student, and I try my best to relate the methods I personally used to overcome those obstacles. I've tutored high school-level Chemistry and Algebra as well as SAT prep, but I also have an extensive background in Spanish and French and am very familiar with Biology, Pre-Calculus, and Calculus, among other subjects. In my free time, I enjoy reading,...