Award-Winning Psychology Tutors serving Santa Clara, CA

...students into Philly's inner city to tutor low-income middle school students. I found the experience deeply rewarding and my time with WPTP nurtured an interest in working with children professionally. I tutor a wide variety of subjects including English, writing, history, SAT Reading/Writing, French and more! My favorite subject to teach is history. The subject is often viewed by students as boring and unnecessary (along the lines of, "why should I learn something that happened...

...like working with dedicated, passionate students who are willing to put in the work to achieve their goals. For me, tutoring is about working with a student until they are able to achieve their goal, and even beyond that so that they have the confidence to continue pursuing their dreams. I'm very patient, calm, and thorough when covering a subject, and I truly enjoy watching my students transform into confident, knowledgeable people ready to tackle...

I want to show my students the joy of learning, as cliche as that might sound. I guess this stems from my own love of learning, but tutoring lets me share this love in a one-on-one, individual scenario. Seeing as my desired career is to be a college professor, tutoring allows me to get an early edge on my teaching skills as well.

...support, and assistance with college application essays. I enjoy tutoring all of my subjects, but my favorite would have to be psychology, as it is my major and I am personally interested in it. I have been tutoring for the past three years and have found it extremely rewarding for both my students and myself. I am passionate about helping students because for me, there is nothing better than being interested in learning. To be...

...Kumon Learning Center in Brandon, FL, until the summer after my freshman year of college. I then tutored students at the after-school program at the Nehemiah Center in Houston, TX my sophomore year of college, working with a wide variety of subjects and all grade levels from Pre-K to 8th grade. From my experience, I have realized that while I tutor in many subjects, I especially love tutoring students in mathematics, particularly Algebra I, standardized...

...well as Server Query Language (SQL), which was necessary for my job given that I was working with very large databases containing public health data from Missouri Medicaid patients. Working in this setting gave me a much bigger appreciation for what is commonly referred to as "the big data problem", that is, the tradeoff between specificity and volume of data and the special schools of analysis that are necessary to circumvent this (such as Bayesian...

...one-on-one and in groups. I especially love to tutor the chemistry classes aforementioned because of the useful study skills I developed from them. In high school, I won a few awards as a member of the speech/debate team. I have many tips and tricks to help students with difficulty in public speaking. Education is absolutely crucial for becoming successful and feeling accomplished both physically and mentally. There should be no barriers to impede one's educational...

...tutoring, I get to live out one of my core values - to help and watch others succeed. As a tutor, I can adapt my knowledge, skills, and abilities to each student's specific academic needs so that they build confidence and skills to achieve their best grades possible. My tutoring skills have been solidified through previous tutoring experiences (at the high school and college level) as well as through extensive involvement on summer camp staff....

...traveled extensively in Europe and North America, both for leisure and to compete in international Model UN conferences, and I feel this has contributed greatly to who I am today. My French is conversational (and I do love to converse). I have tutored both native and non-native English speakers in a multitude of subjects, and my favorites are economics, English, or psychology related, but simple math is fun too, because math is fun when you're...

...love my teaching position as it not only brings me happiness in helping others succeed, but it helps me build a stronger understanding on how to be a better instructor. When I teach, I try not to lecture the student, but engage them by connecting what I teach with real-life scenarios. Especially in hard sciences like biology, this makes it much easier for students to understand the topic. Outside of academia, I am a professional...