Award-Winning Tutors serving La Center, OR

...I've lived and studied in Uruguay, Mexico, and Chile and I received my BA in Spanish and Latin American Studies from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. After college I taught and worked in the education realm in both Peru and Mexico City. Most recently, I've spent my time in the US working...

Promise me you will always remember: You are braver than you believe ,and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. - Christopher Robin

I have been a soccer, ski and golf coach for 15 years. I enjoy a range of outdoor activities from white water rafting, ultra marathon running and alpine skiing. I taught ESL for 2 years in South Korea from kindergarten to 6th grade. I have tutored many business professionals in phonics. I currently work in...

...spare time I enjoy all things outdoors, from backpacking to hiking to climbing or swimming as long as I am outside I am happy. At my university I volunteered at a trip leader for my school Outdoor Programs club. I really enjoy working with others and helping each student better understand the material.

I will strive to meet you where you are, to be realistic and supportive, and to help you gain the skills, knowledge, and confidence to achieve your goals. My first time tutoring was back in elementary school, as an accelerated math student, I had time in the mornings to tutor 3rd grade math. When I...

...that the broad range of topics covered offers many different opportunities to find chemistry examples in everyday life! I think that to love and understand any subject, it's important to see examples of it in everyday activities; it can be very difficult to wrap your head around complex concepts when you're using complex examples, and...

I graduated from Lewis and Clark College in 2019 with Honors in Chemistry. I am passionate about math and science and have mentored undergraduate chemistry students through their laboratory courses. Currently I work as a Behavior Technician providing services to children with autism. I have experience working with students from many different educational backgrounds and...

...to achieve their goals. I tutor students in English, TOEFL preparation, SAT Verbal and Critical Reading preparation, and essay writing. My favorite subject to teach is English, because I love watching someone progress from knowing just a few words of a language to speaking it with confidence. When I tutor, I focus on presenting information...

...topics to teach are narrative and argumentative writing, algebra I, and pre-algebra. With the impact of COVID-19 on students around the world, it is more important than ever that students enjoy and feel confident about learning. I approach tutoring with three primary goals: increasing student agency, empowering students with a love of learning, and improving...

I recently graduated from UCSB, where I graduated with High Honors with a BA in Sociology and minor in Professional Writing. I was the Opinion Editor of my university's newspaper. I have tutored and mentored students of all ages from elementary school to college level. My personality is upbeat and encouraging, and as a tutor...

...working with diverse student populations and reluctant learners. I believe all students can learn and have experience using a variety of instructional practices, with an emphasis on intervention strategies. Building warm, caring relationships, working with joy, and holding high expectations using a strengths based approach are the foundation for my work with students. I'd love...

...the things that the teacher has had years to internalize. A good teacher on the other hand should never forget what it was like to look at the material back when it made no sense. They should further be able to remember how they came to understand it, and be able to communicate this to...

...in Madrid, Spain. I began learning Spanish while serving as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Choluteca, Honduras. I have studied in Mexico and Spain as well as completing a BA in Spanish at Portland State. I am also a professional chef having trained at the California Culinary Academy(now Cordon Bleu) in SFO. I also am...

...in teaching students face-to-face or helping those that need additional help both face-to-face and online. The real excitement is to meet a student where they are academically, then develop a plan of where they want to be and how "we" are going to get the student there! Keep in mind I always think education is...

I have enjoyed helping students in middle school and high school achieve their goals through individual and group tutoring sessions. I've also taught core business courses in Operations Management and Data Analysis for Managers in the California State University System (Sacramento State). I enjoy the most working with individual students to help them along their...

I am a soon-to-be college graduate of Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon! I will have a BA in English, with a minor in Theatre Studies. At Lewis & Clark, I have taken classes in Postcolonial Literature, Poetry Writing, Film & Literature, Milton, British Literature, & Modern American Literature. I am a candidate for...

I am a high school graduate as of 2025, and an enrolled freshman into the Laguna College of Art and Design as an Illustration BFA major. During high school, I took Spanish all 4 years. I have also taken several field science classes, and lead students as an outdoor school counselor for the MESD program....

I graduated from Portland State with a BA in English in the spring of 2014 and, after two years working in New Zealand and Argentina, I am back in the area to coach rowing and tutor before beginning my postgraduate studies in the fall. I am passionate about language, literature, and finding ways to help...

I am currently working on my masters in Clinical Psychology and will be starting my PhD this fall.

...student. In general, if I'm working with a student who already has some basis of a language, I would help them understand what they were learning, and, if time allowed, teach them other grammatical concepts. With adults who already have an understanding of the language, we would often read newspaper articles together and then have...