
Jack: Lakewood ASPIRE tutor
Certified ASPIRE Tutor in Lakewood, WA
...try to teach concepts rather than questions, as being able to answer a question will answer just that-one question. Teaching to the concept will allow you to answer the question and all other questions that employ a similar strategy. I also advocate for showing work and repeating steps to synthesize the learning process after a...
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University of Washington-Seattle Campus - Bachelors, Mathematics
University of Washington College of Education - Masters, Teaching Secondary Education-Mathematics

Bahaar: Lakewood ASPIRE tutor
Certified ASPIRE Tutor in Lakewood, WA
...myself. It was so much fun. After I got to college, I started working at the Mathematics Lab on campus where I tutored students in college level math ranging from College Algebra through Differential Equations. This was probably my favorite job ever. I also taught math to a sweet girl in 7th grade who was...
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Brigham Young University-Provo - Bachelor of Science, Civil and Environmental Engineering (Minor in Mathematics)

Petra: Lakewood ASPIRE tutor
Certified ASPIRE Tutor in Lakewood, WA
...well as middle school and high school math. My favorite subject to teach is any kind of test prep because its easy to track how quickly a student is learning, and helps me adjust my teaching style to be most effective for each individual student. My teaching philosophy is that every student is completely unique,...
Education & Certification
Northwestern University - Current Undergrad, Economics

Graham: Lakewood ASPIRE tutor
Certified ASPIRE Tutor in Lakewood, WA
...led me to consider branching out to tutor those subjects as well. I most enjoy tutoring for SAT Verbal, because of the combination of test-taking strategies, practice with challenging vocabulary and grammatical rules, and textual analysis that the subject demands. My tutoring style is rigorous and focused, but I often make use of illustration and...
Education & Certification
Lake Superior State University - Bachelor in Arts, English Language and Literature

Tracey: Lakewood ASPIRE tutor
Certified ASPIRE Tutor in Lakewood, WA
...of learning. I have experience teaching thousands of students from diverse backgrounds and with a variety of strengths and weaknesses as learners. In the end, I'm interested not just in helping students complete particular assignments well but in providing them with methods and strategies to learn -- to fill up their "writing and reading bag...
Education & Certification
Old Dominion University - Bachelors, English
Old Dominion University - Masters, Professional Writing and Literature

Rebekah : Lakewood ASPIRE tutor
Certified ASPIRE Tutor in Lakewood, WA
...with the reader, and inspires them to write their own stories. This is why I am an advocate for detailed, creative, and personal essay writing. The most powerful essay or piece of academic writing is one which is inspired by the writer's personal instincts and experiences. In my tutoring, I strive to find literature or...
Education & Certification
University of Washington-Seattle Campus - Bachelor in Arts, English Literature and Language

David: Lakewood ASPIRE tutor
Certified ASPIRE Tutor in Lakewood, WA
...success. One-on-one tutoring is an effective technique, particularly for explaining and modeling math, and I enjoy seeing students attitudes toward school brighten when they see immediate progress in their work. As a writing tutor, I like to focus on helping students find their authentic voice. Essays succeed when students strip away the extraneous material and...
Education & Certification
Drake University - Bachelor of Science, Education, History
State Certified Teacher

Brandon: Lakewood ASPIRE tutor
Certified ASPIRE Tutor in Lakewood, WA
...give you one corner, and it is for you to find the other three.-Confucius As a tutor it is my goal to not only teach my students the material they need to learn, but to better their core understanding of a subject and their methods of learning for the future. This way, they can continue...
Education & Certification
University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign - Bachelor of Science, Mathematics

Joseph: Lakewood ASPIRE tutor
Certified ASPIRE Tutor in Lakewood, WA
...exclusively through by-the-book lectures, but through anecdotes and idiosyncratic metaphors which may have amused my classmates and I, but also aided our memories and our reasoning skills. Through high school and college, even while completing two unrelated Bachelor's degree programs, I began tutoring my own classmates, younger students, and even adult neighbors using a similar...
Education & Certification
Truman State University - Bachelors, Mathematics, Theatre
State Certified Teacher

Michael: Lakewood ASPIRE tutor
Certified ASPIRE Tutor in Lakewood, WA
...called Leave Out Violence. In my spare time, I enjoy reading, playing and watching basketball (Go Bulls!), enjoying funny television shows (Louie is my favorite), and playing music (guitar & piano). I consider myself blessed to have a creative mind and spirit; I always endeavor to bring this creativity into anything I do. I am...
Education & Certification
New York University - Bachelor of Fine Arts, Drama
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