Award-Winning Spanish 2 Tutors serving Glendale, AZ

...In addition I am a Spanish translator. I am currently teaching a phonetics course in Bogota several times a year through my company. Teaching and learning a language is a challenge for teachers and students because second language acquisition is quite a complex process. Language teachers need to be able to choose from multiple teaching options that are in the professional literature and find out which of these choices are best. Teaching Spanish language to...

...learning process. This enhances learning by allowing the students themselves the opportunity to strengthen the connections in the brain that produce learning. When I am not perfecting my tutoring skills, I find myself involved in music in some way. I play the drums and have been playing for ten years. I also like to play the piano, guitar, or any instrument I can get my hands on. Music is a big part of who I...

...knowledge I have and to help others discover their potential for learning. While I have tutored many subjects in my career, including all those listed in my college curriculum, my favorite is Math. Whether it's Arithmetic, Algebra, or Calculus, I love being able to help students understand how to manipulate numbers and solve problems. Some of my preferred teaching methods include visual aids, providing supplemental literature, incorporating music in language studies, and simply teaching through...

...there in the future. I am very excited on the first day of every semester to meet my new students! It is my goal to make all the material relevant and interesting. I want my students to be as excited as me to learn each and every class. While I currently teach college students professionally, I still really enjoy tutoring younger students. I have worked with students from kindergarten all the way to 12th grade,...

...desire, to engage in an art, I actively pursue my artistic interest acting in movies and taking classes. I also grew up playing sports, specifically football, and take interest in most others as well. My goal is to challenge myself to help a student find what it is that they are missing in the material, and of course, produce better scores as a result. In most cases, the ability is already there and you just...

...my effectiveness as a tutor. I also try to incorporate my research experience at institutions like the NIH into my tutoring in these areas, using real-world examples from cutting-edge research and scientific communication skills gleaned from poster sessions and academic publications to supplement the teaching experience. Outside the sciences, I also have two years of experience working with a student individually in the humanities. I started with this student in 8th grade; he had no...

...interactive, culturally significant and meaningful to everyday life, they are more likely to be motivated and focused on applying what they know from various aspects such as cultural appropriateness, prior knowledge from life situations and other disciplines to assignments or cumulative projects, rather than when they are instructed to complete individual disconnected activities that tend to bring out their frustrations and flaws in an isolated context as they are not directly presented with the significance...

...Linguistics. My minors are Spanish and Mandarin Chinese. I was born in Germany, and speak fluent German. I have always had a love and interest for languages, and my goal is to encourage students to also embrace foreign languages, and hopefully ignite a spark for second-language learning all kinds of different people. Learning a second, third, or even fourth language can be an extremely fun and rewarding process, and I want to be a part...

...of a topic was faulty. Over time, however, I developed a keener sense for the hurdles that students sometimes face when learning, as well as the most efficient ways to overcome them. I also developed more patience and empathy through tutoring - I often remembered feeling the same confusion about a topic that my students were feeling the first time I had learned the material. The skills and perspective I developed through this tutoring experience...

...a business professor there for 24 years. I live now in Tempe and have family both in the Tucson and Phoenix areas. Although I have lived elsewhere, I feel most at home in the Sonoran Desert, heat and all! I finished my Ph.D. in December 2010 with a dissertation on an early 15th-century medieval poet from Seville, of Genoese background, named Micer Francisco Imperial, the first Spanish-language imitator of Dante. I have a special love of...

...As a first generation college graduate, I received two Bachelor of Arts degrees, one in Human Communication and the second in Spanish Linguistics with a minor in French. I was 1 of 18 students out of thousands who received the Dean's Medal Award for my school department at Arizona State University and finished with a cumulative GPA of 3.64 earning me honors in Magna Cum Laude. I have tutored high school and college level students...

...attend medical school upon graduating and continue to learn throughout the rest of my life! I have extensive experience taking Science, Math, and English courses through the undergraduate level. I have experience tutoring a freshman in high school in Pre-Algebra and Biology and have experience teaching students of all grade levels Nutrition. My goal is for students to deeply understand each concept we go over. I enjoy learning the "why?" when studying my courses, and...

...a BA from Concordia University (Montreal, Canada), as well as an MA from Spring Hill College (Mobile, AL). I have traveled extensively across many parts of the world (Europe, Africa, North America and Middle East), and I am fluent in French, English and Polish. Additionally, I have strong working skills in Spanish, and I have taught Spanish 1 in the past. I am passionate about teaching and tutoring all levels of French (including conversational French),...

...her language fluency, and later went on to earn professional certifications and a Master's Degree. All thanks to having a tutor that connected with her and cheered her on. I speak Spanish fluently and love helping others grow their language skills. Spanish is not only a beautiful language, it is a critical skill. I am a self-proclaimed sonography nerd; I love sharing that passion with the future of sonography. I regularly teach medical students and...

...students to travel and study abroad. Additionally, I enjoy the mentorship of working with students in small groups and one-on-one, facilitating greater understanding of content and watching their faces light up when they finally understand a concept with which they've been struggling. Even more rewarding is when I see students develop habits and skills that they can utilize across curriculum and take into all areas of their academic career as a framework for success.

...time helping my high school peers prepare for the ACT exam, resulting in all of them receiving improved scores. Education has always been important to me, as I view it as the enabling factor to explore one's purpose. I certainly enjoyed my studies, whether it was physics, Spanish, writing, and so on. I believe that being invested in my education is what allowed me to develop my ambitions, and I want to pass that along...

...of branches that give opportunities to ask questions and explore a vast array of content. In college I have tutored algebra, geometry, as well as trigonometry. I enjoy teaching mathematics since they tend to be logical and very straight forward. Something that one of my mentor teachers said sticks with me to this day: "They don't care how much you know, unless they know how much you care." Since, I have made it my personal...

I have a Ph.D. in Hispanic literature and have taught for almost 20 years (Spanish, literature, reading, writing, grammar, Latin American history, SAT and ACT prep, and introduction to humanities). I enjoy working with students of all ages and backgrounds.

...high schools and tutored middle school students helping them with the language. I think that in order to help students to learn a subject, you need to start by building their confidence in a stress-free environment. “Impossible” is not in my vocabulary; if there are difficulties, we try to figure a way out but we never give up. As a teacher, my main goals have always been to have my students communicate in the language...

...University of California San Diego. Between my undergraduate education and medical school education, I tutored high school students in a variety of subjects, including Algebra, Chemistry, Biology, and Spanish. My favorite subject to tutor is Chemistry, because it is one that students struggle with a lot, and it makes me happy to see a student grasp a concept they have worked hard to understand. I believe that there are many different ways to learn a...