Award-Winning Tutors serving Herndon, VA

...vocabulary words and verb conjugations and tenses. It is essential to incorporate interesting and relevant methods that also give insight into that particular language and culture, including newspaper articles, fictional stories, poetry and magazines, movies and YouTube videos. Among my other favorite subjects to tutor are U.S. History (AP), U.S. Government (AP), Public Speaking, English...

...my Washington D.C. sports teams, and golf has recently become a weekend hobby of mine. I consider my personality to be my greatest asset, since I am able to relate with people from all different kinds of backgrounds and experiences. This allows me to develop a comfortable and trusting relationship with the students I tutor,...

...time in Latin America by teaching individual classes to adults at an English language institute. I am currently substituting at a bilingual charter school in DC for a variety of subjects. I studied Anthropology, Sociology, and Creative Writing at NYU and have extensive experience in literature, writing, and history courses. I received and International Baccalaureate...

...own lesson plans for two one-hour classes per week for Spanish 102, grading homework and designing my own quizzes. I also tutored occasionally through our on-campus tutoring program. Finally, for the past two summers I have worked at the extremely rigorous Breakthrough Collaborative Teaching Internship at their Miami, Florida location teaching 5th and 6th grade...

...such as hiking. I am a bit of a movie and music buff so I love to quote movies and song lyrics. I also believe in challenging myself to do new things that cause to me to face my fears. All in all, I love to live and enjoy life just as much as I...

...want that little bit of extra polish, and at all times in between. I ask a lot of questions to encourage you to think through whatever it is you are trying to master. I love traveling and frequently take extended road trips around the United States. I especially like driving through the Appalachian Mountains during...

...Anthropology and a Certificate in French Language and Literature. My tutoring career began in high school as a member of the National Honor Society and continued throughout and after college. I now operate my own tutoring company Expert Instruction LLC. The primary goal of my tutoring service is to help students develop a growth mindset...

...of Research in a flow cytometry lab, which specializes in research for malaria vaccine development. After my research internship ended, I began attending the University of Maryland, College Park as a post-baccalaureate student seeking a second degree in General Biology (B.S.), which I obtained in August 2016. My extensive educational background and previous research experiences...

...graduated high school. Once I arrived at Howard, I decided to combine my passion for health care with my love of teaching by becoming a peer health educator. In that role, I teach health education to high school students in the District. I also currently tutor pre-med and other pre-professional students in a variety of...

...whole career. I feel I have learned from her great ways to teach complex subjects. I also earned perfect writing scores on my SAT and GRE. I would love to tutor in writing and reading, hopefully helping students achieve their own personal scores. I have experience working with children, ranging from first grade to rising...

...in education. I am particularly passionate about doing this by tutoring in history, writing, literature and Spanish. In my free time here in D.C. I enjoy taking advantage of our area's natural beauty, watching our local sports teams, reading fiction and keeping up with the news, and spending time with my two dogs, Allie and...

...editor for written and data-heavy projects, which is a role I thoroughly enjoy. My favorite students to work with are the ones who are interested in learning the material, but need some extra time outside of class to wrap their head around concepts, or just need a different take on the subject than their teacher...

...to volunteer with my family, play PlayStation with friends, and have game nights. These activities help to keep me balanced and provide easy outlets during the semester. I truly believe that teaching students is more about understanding and analysis instead of memorizing formulas. This is reflected in my ‘partner-teaching’ style in the sense that I...

...When I tutor, my aim is to keep my students engaged 100% of the time. I use visuals, brainstorming games, and rewards to help my students get the most out of each lesson. In sum, my goal is to try to change the way my students learn to write, leaving them with writing skills and...

...abilities and backgrounds. I am currently a special education teacher at Thomas Edison High School. During my five year tenure at Edison I have worked as a Geometry, Biology, and Chemistry teacher in both team-taught and self-contained settings. As a special education teacher I am a case manager for thirteen high school students, and my...

...from developing a research paper and crafting a thesis statement, to editing for clarity and grammar. After graduating, I lived overseas for a year where I worked as an ESL teacher. I worked in elementary school classrooms and developed lesson plans where students practiced English in an interactive environment to improve their conversational speaking and...

...in Electrical Engineering. Having worked in the fields of telecommunicaton and IT, I got my MS Degree in Networks & Communication Management; in addition to Graduate Certificate in Wireless Communication. My further CCNA certification from Cisco depicts my real world computer network knowledge. I enjoy swimming and aerobics as a hobby.

...be perceived as stupid or irrelevant and as such generally create teaching environments whereby my students feel free to ask ANY questions. I am a British national and thus British educated and and just completed my PhD at the world-renowned, University of Cambridge. I recently emigrated to the USA but I am very conversant with...

...top researchers from researchers/professors from Johns Hopkins University. Research molds the way you think about questions and how to solve the problem. When teaching others, you must be able to teach the way you think to arrive at that understanding or answer. Learning how to think and digest new knowledge is what I can teach...

...work, I like to read and write, play soccer, spend time outdoors, and spend time with my friends. I have previous short-term teaching experience in Peru and Spain, and am near-fluent in Spanish. I believe in the power of positive thinking, hard work, and self-confidence. I also believe that practice makes perfect: putting theory into...