Award-Winning Summer Tutors in Yakima, WA

...and middle school levels. Now that I live in a rural farm community, I've tried relearning and improving my Spanish, and feel comfortable enough with it to tutor the basics. I believe that anyone can learn anything if they want to, and I try to encourage my students to build on what they already know...

...not a 'him', this still applies. My main goal is to enable you to perform the desired tasks on your own. After all, you can't take the tutor into the test, can you? Our sessions will emphasise critical thinking, problem solving, and how to utilize everything you know in addition to some helpful tricks and...

...each student and create personalized study tools and lesson plans. We can work on homework, understanding more complex concepts from class, preparing for a big test or even trying to get ahead of the curve on more advanced work. It's up to you! I absolutely love the challenge of teaching and am looking forward to...

...earned my B.A. from Colorado College in International Political Economy. I have a Masters of Public Policy from Pepperdine University and I am currently applying to PhD programs in International Development and Foreign Policy. Outside of academics, I am an avid gamer, both tabletop and video games. I frequently travel, both for pleasure and for...

...taken the special classes and labored through the workbooks to prepare for taking the exams myself. The trick is to learn the test and know how to beat it with the right tools, and I am eager to pass along what I have learned from years of studying for and taking standardized tests. There is...

...Studies Program, and then acquired Medieval Latin during my MA at the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto. When not busy with academics, I fence on the varsity team, practice yoga, write poetry, and travel. During my summers I teach (art intensives, fencing, science, and more) at summer camps to groups of...

...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....

I love working with students. I find it an exciting challenge because there are so many ways to be successful at it and I am looking forward to exploring as many ways as possible to help students learn.... There is no such thing as a bad student. There are only unmotivated ones and it is a teacher and tutor's responsibility to motivate them to learn.

...the guitar with his band. I helped him plan an essay about his experiencing performing for a crowd, and he discovered that essay-writing wasn't a punishment--it was another way to express himself. As a freelancer, I've worked as a writer for a test preparation company, giving me a solid background in test-taking strategies for the...

...write, and do math. Because I loved doing those in school, and I'll be teaching that this up coming school year. To have a struggling reader all of a sudden love reading and attack hard words never before tried is the best feeling in the world. I believe education should be fun, loving, inviting, challenging,...