Award-Winning SAT Reading Tutors in Thousand Oaks, CA

...questions and making mistakes. I find that a good sign a student understands a concept is when he/she can explain it back to me, as though I were the student. When I am not tutoring, I do some writing of my own, as well as volunteer at Project 826CHI. In my free time, I love...

...experience teaching entrepreneurship at the collegiate level, I have designed and instructed a complete Model United Nations course and organized educational and social activities including trips to the South African Embassy in Washington DC to facilitate student participation and retention of key Model U.N. concepts. I have also privately tutored several students ranging from early...

...of how languages are learned and how to teach them. I have tutored French and ESL to students of all ages. I thoroughly enjoy sitting down with a student of mine, pinpointing their problems, and then addressing them in an efficient but exciting manner. I also enjoy deconstructing tests with students; figuring out what the...

...approachable while I am teaching/tutoring as I can to lessen the intimidation factor of that crazy dead language we're learning. Although I grew up in Boston, I moved to Los Angeles in 2006 to enroll at USC and (in large part due to the weather) have never left. At the moment I spend most of...

...try to teach my students better learning practices and intellectual curiosity so that they can take away something permanent from our interactions. My main interest is Creative Writing. Poetry, fiction, and screenwriting are my passions. My favorite genre is science fiction. For the last three years, I've worked part-time as a script reader, which is...

...tutored a number of my students who needed special attention in my subject areas. I make a great tutor because I am extremely adaptable to different learning styles, and my philosophy is that students must reinforce the fundamental building blocks of the language if they are to grasp the more difficult concepts. I know also...

...one level at a time. I have spent lots of time with children, in elementary school classrooms, as a camp counselor, and as a babysitter for many years. It can often be difficult for children to fully grasp concepts or take the time to ask questions in a large classroom environment. I think every kid...

...grow to love the work of Shelly, Dickinson, and Whitman. I think it is the change in my students' faces that I like the most. One of my students complained about CR from the first day; several weeks into our work she came in with her face glowing: "You know how you said one day...

...tutor for a local course in English as a Second Language, in which I was able to guide non-native speakers to higher levels of English comprehension, writing abilities, and test-taking. As a tutor, I am most adept in the subjects of English, Literature, and European History, all of which I studied extensively in college. I...

...how to do 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...