Award-Winning ASPIRE Tutors in Tacoma, WA

...Mathematics. I am a structural engineer professionally but tutoring has always (literally, always) been my passion. I grew up in the beautiful state of Goa, India, and I moved to the United States to attend college at Brigham Young University about five years ago. I am a young wife, and my husband is a structural engineer as well! I started tutoring students my own age when I was in high school. My friends' parents would...

...and community college courses. I taught all levels of math, science, economics, and statistics. In addition, I have many years of experience tutoring students in many of the nationwide standardized tests such as the SAT, ACT, GRE, and GMAT and Advanced Placement Calculus and Physics. I work hard to make complex and challenging material accessible and enjoyable for a wide range of students. At all levels, I encourage both the hesitant and eager students to...

...to enter an essay contest and my essay was picked as the winner! I've always been an amateur poet (and by amateur, I do mean amateur) an avid storyteller. I earned my Bachelor's degree in English with an Education minor and my Master's in Professional Writing and Literature. Since then, I've spent most of the last two decades teaching students to read, write, analyze and think critically. I especially love working with students one-on-one because...

As an engineering student, I am very familiar with high level math, physics, chemistry, and other STEM courses, as well as English, writing, and public speaking. I can use teaching methods demonstrated by my professors to teach others. In high school, I tutored younger students in Latin, using techniques like flashcards and quizzes.

...of mathematics and her take-a-step-back strategy, Kate is here to help you fill in the gaps and shake up your approach to math problems. Kate has a doctorate in engineering, which means she uses math and science to solve problems. She has been a tutor, a SAT prep teacher, and a teaching assistant for engineering courses, and she received perfect scores on the GRE quantitative test, ACT Math, and ACT Science. When Kate is not...

...In high school, I was the recipient of the Continental Mathematics League award and earned a near perfect score on my math SATs. Since last year I have instructed students 2nd through 12th grade at a math tutoring center where I acquired a variety of methods for teaching math skills and numerical fluency. My personal strength is in identifying an individual's challenges and figuring out an approach that will work with that person's style of...

...my friends and family. I've worked with students all my life, and I love teaching, especially in reading and writing. I really believe that reading and writing are vital to clear communication and that being a good, clear communicator is important both professionally and personally. I also believe in reliability, creativity, and collaboration in tutoring sessions, and I hope to use those values while teaching to help students through more difficult subject areas at school.

...received a Bachelor of Arts in English Language and Literature and Secondary Education, with a minor in History. During my years of classroom teaching, I led an after-school credit recovery program for Social Studies students working on virtual classes, and in 2013 I worked as a tutor for SAT verbal/ACT English prep at a learning center in Bellevue. I tutor all subjects and test preps relating to English, Language Arts, Reading and Literature, and I...

...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 problem has been solved. Outside of education, I'm a big fan of music and live concerts (I produce and perform live electronic music as a glorified hobby), Seattle culture, and cats.

...at the University of Washington, Seattle. Since high school, my passion has been traveling and making connections with people of different ages and cultures. I took a gap year after high school to backpack in Europe, spent a summer in Russia at a children's camp, and did a summer study abroad learning about social justice in India. My last quarter of college was an internship teaching ESL in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. While I love studying literature...