Award-Winning ASPIRE Tutors in Glendale, CA

...University in 2010 with a BA in Literature with a Film focus, and am currently a professional writer living in Los Angeles. While I tutor in a broad range of subjects, I am most passionate about English, Literature, Essay Editing, and Creative Writing. I love language, I love the written word, and the art of writing has always been a pleasure for me to teach. I have been tutoring and editing essays since I was...

...Angeleno with a passion for the history and culture of Los Angeles and California. I taught college composition for two years. I worked at UCLA's Scholarship Resource Center and helped students find and apply for scholarships based on their unique profiles, which included writing and editing students' essays and statements of purpose. Learning is about discovery from all disciplines. I am a passionate educator interested in teaching English and American literature, composition, preparing students to...

...Additionally, my five years of experience as an administrative assistant has given me a firm grasp on grammar, proofreading, and the professionalism of a working environment. I am a hard-working screenwriter tutoring to supplement my income, but it's important to me to find work that serves my community. The ability to experience and express ideas, thoughts, and emotions effectively through reading and writing has saved many lives, including mine. It's become my career. Tutoring has...

...my BS in Biomedical Engineering. I switched from a career in engineering to one in education because I just love working with kids, teenagers, and young adults. For me, coaching a teenager to improve his jumpshot beats educating a client about a new product; and helping students prepare for the SAT trumps preparing for a design-team meeting. Having taken a year away from teaching to pursue a Master's in Counseling, I look forward to mentoring...

...their grades. I like to take a calm approach and utilize the person's strengths and learning abilities to derive a teaching method that will suit each individual. I also use simple tricks and memorizing techniques that the teachers may not use to help remember how to solve the problem. I am very happy when the person I am helping performs well and will do my best to make sure that the best grade possible is...

...Illinois University - Carbondale with my Bachelor of Arts in English Literature and earned a Master of Fine Arts degree in Creative Writing. I taught English as a Second Language in Ilsan, Korea to elementary students and at Ball State University in Indiana, to international students. Since 2001, I have been teaching various forms of English (composition, speaking, listening, grammar, creative writing). Most recently, I spent nearly two years tutoring grades K-12 in an after-school...

...English (including reviewing essay writing and teaching critical reading). Having also participated in test preparation programs, I have worked with students preparing for standardized tests and am keen on effective tools, techniques, and strategies useful for allowing students to achieve their best scores. I have found my tutoring and teaching experiences to be extremely rewarding. They have required me to use my intelligence, patience, and empathy to not only help students academically, but also build...

...you set your mind to. Mindset is so, so important, and I believe that with a powerful mindset one can push through any barrier and overcome any obstacle not just in learning, but in life. Furthermore, my goal is not just to simply help a student do better in a subject they are struggling in, but to also make them better in every aspect of their life and to never let an academic challenge scare...

...tutoring, my goal is to truly get to know the student and make the material relevant to his/her life. For example, I would try to incorporate your student's interests into a Math or Science problem in order to make the problem personal. While I love tutoring all subjects, tutoring Math is definitely my favorite! Throughout my tutoring experiences I have tutored students from a wide variety of cultural and religious backgrounds, and I have enjoyed...

...in the student's learning process. I always find it rewarding when tutoring and teaching a student. My primary goal is to plant the love of learning in my students, so they do not feel pressured in the process of advancing their knowledge in the subject area being taught. This helps both the student and the teacher to move forward with the process in a much smoother and enjoyable manner. My favorite subject has been -...