Award-Winning SSAT Tutors in Pleasanton, CA

...a teacher in Campbell, CA. I have a Masters Degree in Education focusing on Teaching Strategies. I have a second Master's Degree in Differentiated Instruction. I am pursuing my Doctorate in Education focusing on Teaching Strategies and Learning Styles for the Modern Student. I have been a special education teacher for the last decade working with students who have learning disabilities. Many of my students have deficits in attention and information retention. Despite these limitations,...

...name is Cody F. and I love tutoring, especially in math and science. I graduated from The Gatton Academy of Math and Science at Western Kentucky University, named the number one public high school in the nation by Newsweek. While there I took extensive college coursework in math, physics, chemistry, biology, and the humanities while also completing my high school education. After graduating I began my undergraduate education at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)...

...born in Pasadena, CA and moved east to attend Choate Rosemary Hall in CT. After high school, I earned my B.A. in Art History at The University of Bristol in England, single honours, and my M.A. in Elementary Education from Northeastern University in Boston, MA. I have been a Lead Teacher in Transitional Kindergarten, 1st and 4th grade, as well as 6 years of in-home private tutoring. I specialize in teaching reading and math to...

...an undergraduate at Tulane University in New Orleans, but will be spending next year abroad at the London School of Economics. I was born here in San Francisco, and I have lived in this amazing city ever since. I???ve been tutoring for several years in a variety of subjects: from reading and writing for ESL (English as a second language) students, to Calculus and Economics, and for a variety of ages: from kindergarteners to my...

...and it is important that the student really learns how to think so that he or she can become a critically thinking, self-sufficient individual in the future. Because students are often being tutored in a subject they find more difficult than others, I have found that positive reinforcement and acknowledging improvement is an extremely effective way to coax continuous effort even when levels of frustration and boredom are at their highest. Seeing a student grow...

...undergraduate and Master's degree in Biology, a minor in Spanish, and a career as a full-time biologist, I am well versed in the sciences, Spanish, and excel at writing. As a student, I excelled in all my courses and loved most subjects, particularly Math. After my undergraduate career at the University of Nebraska at Kearney, I spent two years teaching Environmental Science to students before starting my graduate career (also at UNK). I love sharing...

...In terms of the subjects I am comfortable teaching, of course Math and French are what I have the most experience with. But I would love to be given the chance to tackle new things as well! For instance, I have an enduring love for literature and writing, and I am also completely fluent in German, having lived in Germany for fourteen years. I would love to be given the occasion to teach some German,...

...looking forward to meeting you and helping you master the tasks you may currently need help with. I grew up here in the San Francisco Bay Area, and I attended all French-American Bilingual schools through the end of high school. In college, I spent some time studying and living in Ecuador and Peru, so I also speak Spanish. I have worked with students of all ages, from elementary school students just learning to read to...

...a recent graduate from UC Berkeley, where I majored in Anthropology. Halfway through college, I thought: Hey, maybe someday I want to be a medical doctor. So I began taking pre-med requirements. As a humanities and social sciences student up to that point, math and science classes did not come easily to me. I had to re-learn how to study. I discovered I love the process of learning, whether it's Cultural anthropology or Chemistry, Philosophy...

...a 2010 graduate from UCLA with a Bachelor of Science in Physiology. I am currently a Master's student at UCSF, working to become a pediatric nurse practitioner. Prior to UCSF, I worked part time as a tutor at a tutoring center in Southern California. My experience with teaching has primarily been with school age children, from kindergarten to middle school, and some high school students. The subjects I helped teach ranged from most elementary school...