Award-Winning Tutors serving Champlin, MN

...working relationship is important for your success. What are your dreams and goals, your strengths and challenges? What kind of learner are you? You should know what kind of teacher I am! I'm a retired Dance and Theater educator, with thirteen years of service in public education. In the decades before I got my teaching license, I worked as a teaching artist in the Twin Cities and the New York City metropolitan area, teaching hundreds...

Inmyexperience,theformationofcognitivematurity,andthussociability,dependson one'scapacitytoseeone'sownrealityasasingleperceptionamongavalidplurality.Thestudy ofotherculturesandlanguagesthusopensthepossibilityforindividualstoseebeyondthe centralityoftheirownlives,anessentialriteofpassageinbecomingamatureandfairhuman being.Asateacher,Ihopetosharemyknowledgewithstudentsastheyfindnotonlytheirown viewoftheworld,butalsodiscoverthemyriadviewsaroundthem. Ihopetoaccomplishthisgoalbyformingmeaningful,respectfulbondswitheachofmy students.Inthissense,Ihopetoformmentor/menteerelationshipsinwhichIguidelearners alongtheirpathoflanguageandculturalacquisition.However,Ialsoemphasizetheroleof learnersinthisrelationship,whohelptoguideme,lettingmeknowthebestwayto communicatenotonlyempiricalknowledge,butlessonsaboutlifeaswell. Nowmorethaneverwehavethetechnologicalmeanstoenableandenhance cross-culturalcommunication.Oureducationalsystemsvalueforeignlanguages.Business opportunitiesprovideincentivesforstudentstolearntheselanguages.Iplantousethecurrent educationalandbusinessenvironmentnotonlytoprovidehighqualitylanguageacquisition skills,butenablestudentstoseethevalueinworld viewsandopinionsthatmaydifferfromtheir own.... Teaching Philosophy Robert Hultgren “The limits of my language are the limits of my world.” ­Ludwig Wittgenstein In my experience, one of the most important things that students can learn is the validity of another’s opinion. Now more than ever, it is paramount that we learn to communicate with one another and cross culturally. In the 20th and...

...has a Bachelors degree in Mathematics and has been tutoring High School and Middle School students for the past 5 years. She understands that the anxiety of test taking, constant social comparisons, and the pressure of today's expectations can have a toll on a student's confidence. Through this, she recognizes that the key to success is inspiring a student to believe in themselves, and encouraging them that they, truly, can do anything they set their...

...find creative solutions to help them understand new concepts and materials as well as find value in the learning process itself. It is my goal to create student-centered classes that give all students multiple opportunities to develop their creativity and communication, leadership, and management skills that will be necessary throughout their lives. As an educator who spent 10 years teaching English as a foreign language in Japan and Macedonia, it is my goal to teach...

...minor in Italian and am now a PhD candidate in Romance Languages and Literatures at Harvard University. I have my TESOL certification and have tutored language students of all ages (elementary, middle, and high school as well as university-level students) for about fifteen years. I believe that students' experience with a content area is strongly dependent upon the instructor infusing the lessons with energy, passion, and relatability. Therefore, I strive to make the content pertinent...

I just finished my freshman year at Loyola University Chicago majoring in Environmental Engineering. My first tutoring experience was volunteering at my high school to help my classmates with math and reading subjects. I loved it because I got to make so many new friends while also helping them achieve their academic goals. Thanks to those students, I have learned to think of topics in new ways and apply that to my tutoring. I look...

...Paul, Minnesota. I can't tell you enough about my love to learn new things everyday in 6th grade. Although I've never been the best student in the world, I've cherished my role as a teacher. Through a lot of hard work and joy of interacting with kids in elementary/middle school, I made it! I graduated from the University of Minnesota Twin Cities and have a masters in elementary education. I also would like to add...

...Finding learning strategies to meet your needs results in high levels of improvement. While making learning engaging and relevant, learners are able to retain content more thoroughly. I love tutoring because I enjoy helping my learners become successful! Seeing ah-ha moments brings joy to me. Learning is not everyone's favorite thing but during the time we have together, we'll make the most of it! I stem from a long background in numbers. Starting in high...

...schooling I was routinely asked to break down big problems, identify the key parts, and then solve them. This same thinking has made me a successful teacher in areas much broader then math and science. By breaking down a problem and identifying key points I believe I can lead any student to academic success. I discovered my love of teaching during my senior year of college. Now I hope that I can take what I...

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...at the University of Minnesota. I have been a tutor in Minnesota for 10 years. I have taught a wealth of subjects at grade-levels 4th through 12th as well as college graduates and undergraduates. I am most frequently consulted for tutoring in General Writing, Mathematics and Computer Science. Those have been the trend, but not the extent, of my tutoring experience. I am proficient and proven in tutoring a vast number of subjects. I enjoy...

I am a fifth grade teacher who enjoys working with students!

striving to become a better self, better than yesterday. ... Practice makes it perfect.

...Pre-Med Program) at Drexel University. I took a year "off", working in a pathology/cardiology research laboratory at Johns Hopkins while applying to medical school. I was accepted to the M.D./Ph.D. program at Virginia Commonwealth University and that is where I have been for the past 9 years. This year (2016) I graduated with and MD and a Ph.D. in Microbiology and Immunology. My dissertation project focused on mast cells in allergic disease, mastocytosis, and non-allergic...

I am currently a sophomore in college at Milwaukee School of Engineering, studying Biomolecular engineering. I love all types of chemistry and biology. I have tutored since my freshman year of high school and I love it!

...learn to use their strengths and to acquire resources and strategies to become more successful as learners. Much of my experience has been in schools for students receiving special education services and for students who struggle in traditional school environments. I also have worked extensively with people who wish to be more fluent in English. A top priority of mine is for students to be comfortable working with me as they study and learn. They...

...Twin Cities Campus. I attended college at Washington & Jefferson College in Washington, PA where I majored in chemistry and minored in communication arts. I graduated Summa Cum Laude in college and worked for three years in Translational Cancer Research at UPMC Hillman Cancer Center. With that, I have become an extremely well rounded student continuing my education in medical/graduate school and can assist in a variety of different subjects involving math and science.

...Economics. I enjoy helping people learn because I believe true mastery of a subject is being able to teach it. My promise to the students I work with is to put in as much work as they do. I firmly believe that what you get out of something depends on what you put in, so whatever a student will put in I will give back. In my free time I really enjoy being outside with...

...Economics. I have a passion for helping students learn and achieve their academic and personal goals. At Carleton, I played Varsity Soccer, hosted a radio show, and served as an economics prefect/TA for introductory microeconomics classes. In this role, I both held classroom sessions and tutored students individually. It was rewarding to see the results of my efforts and the impact I could have on other students. I am at an expert level in many...

...I noticed that I could teach things to myself and others in the same way I approached these puzzles. Assess, plan, solve and check. Communicating what I know to others is something I have been doing my entire life. From tutoring my peers in math and science to volunteer tutoring immigrant students struggling with English I have been constantly reminded of my love for learning and teaching what I have learned to others. I firmly...