Award-Winning Reading Tutors in Millcreek, UT

...in various settings: classroom, home school, church, online. I have been teaching online for five years. Being able to connect with students from all over the country has been a wonderful experience for me. When I'm not teaching, I love spending time with my family. I enjoy reading, singing, and taking very amateur photos of...

...Ben. I struggled as middle school student mostly because I had a hard time focusing. I became an educator to help kids like me learn about the amazing world we live in. I have taught middle school geology and literacy. I have a background in chemistry, physics, political science and math up to calculus 1.

...the high school classroom where a few of the students were the only individuals at the school who spoke their native language. I took advantage of any opportunities to learn from the students about their past experiences and their thoughts on the world. I used review work with small groups to foster relationships between the...

...front or behind, but rather beside the student. Understanding that everyone learns at different paces, in different ways, and for different reasons is key to understanding how best to help a student. There is no one-size-fits-all solution to teaching, which is exactly the kind of hole in public education that tutoring seeks to fill. I...

...write a book on this topic. My work as a TA, creative writing community leader, and tutor have given me extensive experience in working with students one on one to craft truly excellent essays. That said, I keep the ball in the student's court. It's never enough to help students get through assignments. Instead, it...

...help us develop skills across subject matters. For most of my academic career, I believed that I was bad at math and science because I excelled in writing and literature. One day, my AP Calculus teacher explained a complicated mathematical concept in terms that my literary side understood. She taught me that all subjects are...

...I am fluent in Spanish thanks to a two-year mission for my church. Because of this I am now part of a Hispanic volunteer group helping children learn to read more fluently. I played rugby and football, and I love doing things outdoors, whether it be hiking, going to the lake, skiing, or backpacking. I...

...that the richest kind of learning occurs when students learn to make discoveries for themselvesnot when the teacher hands her students all the answers. Learning is interactive; it is a continuous conversation between teacher and student. I challenge my students to discover their own voices through the kind of higher-level questions I ask. I set...

...graduated with a bachelor's degree in Human Biology and have been a high school teacher of multiple science subjects (biology, chemistry, physical science, etc.) In school, I worked as an English writing tutor for all varieties of subjects, from accounting essays to ESOL student practice. In science, I am most experienced at tutoring genetics and...

...of papers and actually help students to improve their writing skills, so I am very confident in tutoring students in anything related to writing (it's right up my alley, too, since I'm an English major!). In addition, I have listed other subjects that I feel confident tutoring because of my knowledge of and experience with...