Award-Winning SSAT Tutors in Petaluma, CA

...find the best way to teach. My goal is that my students enjoy learning, build confidence, and learn a lot. Although I believe it is important to learn facts and procedures, it's most important to learn how to learn and develop an understanding of the subject. I look forward to the opportunity to share my...

...for middle school kids or Competition Math. I think the value in me as a tutor is teaching students how to solve problems on their own, instead of just relying on me to give them the answers. I can teach students the importance of not giving up, ease the pressure they get from academics, and...

...grade, and have substituted in all grades over the last year. My background is in Humanities, with concentrations in English and Anthropology. I love to read, discuss books and ideas, and I love to write. I hold a BA in Humanities from Fort Lewis College in Durango, CO. My teaching credential program is with CalStateTEACH.

...humanities while also completing my high school education. After graduating I began my undergraduate education at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, Massachusetts, recently ranked by US News as the number one university in the country. At MIT I am pursuing a degree in mathematics. During this time I have acquired great experience...

...the student is truly learning and figuring things out for him or herself with just a small nudge in the right direction. Too often students become reliant on a tutor for the answers, and it is important that the student really learns how to think so that he or she can become a critically thinking,...

...taught martial arts for two years and I was a teaching assistant for an introduction to entrepreneurship course. The majority of subjects I tutor have something to do with reading writing or literature. My favorite subject to teach is writing and communications. There are many "standard" approaches to writing and I enjoy mixing it up...

...so I also speak Spanish. I have worked with students of all ages, from elementary school students just learning to read to Masters' students trying to perfect their theses. I am interested in a broad variety of topics (I completed two majors and two minors in college), and I am great at explaining complicated concepts...

...for ESL (English as a second language) students, to Calculus and Economics, and for a variety of ages: from kindergarteners to my peers at college. Math has definitely been my favorite subject to tutor; I find joy in helping people who are struggling get to a point where concepts finally make sense. There is a...

...I love working with students to help them achieve their academic goals! After growing up in Connecticut and going to high school in New Jersey, I attended undergrad at Barnard College, the women's college at Columbia University in New York City. I graduated in 2015 with a double major in Human Rights and Urban Studies,...

...at the age of 12. I have worked with all age groups from infants to those in high school in a variety of settings including nannying, being a camp counselor, interning in a Pre-K classroom, a Kindergarten classroom, and currently a 3rd grade classroom. I have tutored for three students who were all freshman in...