Award-Winning ASPIRE Tutors in Tacoma, WA

...sure you are comfortable and you understand the material. I have a lot of experience with mathematics, and frankly, I think I have been blessed so that it usually comes naturally to me. I have also been pretty good at English writing as well as speaking having participated in various debate and elocution competitions in the past. I am also a native English and Hindi speaker, so I have a lot of experience with different...

...subjects and test preps relating to English, Language Arts, Reading and Literature, and I enjoy tutoring for Social Studies and History. My personal interest in art and philosophy has 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...

...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, and it is my job to adapt my teaching to help them learn at their full potential. Seeing a student's eyes light up when a problem...

...college was an internship teaching ESL in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. While I love studying literature of all genres, I feel the most impactful literary experience is one that deeply resonates 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....

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.

...students. At all levels, I encourage both the hesitant and eager students to succeed. I tailor lesson plans to different learning styles and abilities. With the extra attention I give, my students consistently tell me they have learned more than they ever thought possible for themselves. Many of my students once nervous about math or science went on to major in these subjects in college with great success. They just had to get over fears...

...one-on-one sessions. I try to teach through Socratic questioning and encouraging autonomy in my students, as independence is a crucial step to true understanding of subject material. I also 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...

...read, write, analyze and think critically. I especially love working with students one-on-one because it gives me an opportunity to customize my teaching methods to the particular student's ways 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...

...when I tutored and mentored middle school-aged students interested in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. In addition to some one-on-one tutoring, I also helped to develop a curriculum that my peers and I taught to these students in the classroom. In college, I work with an organization called Peer Health Exchange as a Senior Health Educator. In this role, I travel to Chicago Public School classrooms and teach lessons about sex and...

...school, I was fortunate enough to have educators who taught math not as a regimen of drills and memorization, but as a process of thinking logically. They taught not 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,...