Award-Winning Reading Tutors in Thousand Oaks, CA

...study English because I'm a sucker for good storytelling. I began tutoring during high school when an underclassman's parents asked me to help their son review the material for his algebra class. In college and graduate school, my friends would ask me to proofread their papers or clarify some of the topics from our classes....

...passing both successfully. I also worked with another tutoring company from 2010-2013 before switching to Varsity Tutors which only strengthened my skills as a tutor. In addition, I have various private students that I have been tutoring for a couple of years and they are all at grade level in school and some are even...

...of Southern California (USC). My experience in education ranges from tutoring in AVID programs, volunteer in a middle school history class, and even as en English instructor in Shanghai, China! My favorite subjects are history, government, Spanish, and writing because I find them most relevant to my life. I am a native Spanish speak with...

...around the country. I was also politically active: I taught a weekly civics class to middle school students, ran a successful campaign for state representative, and volunteered for other statewide races. Currently, I lead post-production on a documentary web series, and I look forward to a life creating socially conscious films and plays. Few challenges...

...is write about science and use the scientific method to think about writing. I actually find tests very fun and love tutoring verbal and essay SAT prep, but I am always happy to work in Biology, the Health Sciences, or essay-writing in general. I like to have my students teach me to teach them. Everybody...

...book clubs, board games, and more. I come from a family of educators (both my parents are teachers and I have uncles who have been deans and presidents of universities), and I love teaching and helping people learn as much as I can because I'm a lover of learning myself. I keep a very positive...

...independent schools in New York and California and four years doing graduate work in the Classics at USC, three of which were spent teaching Latin and Ancient Greek to undergraduates while enrolled. While I can teach other subjects, the majority of my work comes in Latin and other Classical areas, and I've made it sort...

...training, i.e. worked as a teaching fellow. Every student has the potential to excel, but for whatever reason of stress or self-doubt, they do not succeed. I would like to help change student perspectives of their own mental capacity to succeed by showing them *simple*, but extremely effective, studying methods to begin mastery of any...

...I did!” indicating some test they’d passed or some other outstanding accomplishment. I began to live for those moments, and also for the moments when I could see in a student’s face that the proverbial light bulb had just come on. I want to continue to spread that belief and confidence in students. In closing,...

...academy called Canterbury English where I taught English as a foreign language to young Spanish children. Additionally, I worked as a tutor in the AVID program at Toll middle school where I focused on a number of subjects including algebra/pre-algebra, english, history, and Spanish. Though I enjoy tutoring all levels of Spanish language and literature,...