Award-Winning Tutors serving Penn Hills, PA

...amazing opportunities to work with a lot of different learners. My students have included second graders, freshman science and pre-professional majors, and even professors. As a PhD student constantly thinking and writing about music in literature, I am incredibly aware of the importance of listening. I believe that it is important to listen to what...

...smile on a student's face when he or she finally masters a difficult concept. My specialty subject is mathematics. In high school, I finished AP Calculus BC by the end of my junior year, and during my senior year I went on to take college-level math in a dual-enrollment program with Carnegie Mellon University. I...

...track with a minor in chemistry and economics. I have tutored for several years now, ages ranging from 12 year olds to 18 year olds in subjects mainly focusing on math and science. My goal for tutoring is to get the student comfortable enough with the material that he or she could teach it themselves.

SAT/ACT Tutor currently pursuing a degree in Finance and Statistics at Carnegie Mellon University

As an experienced tutor, I am confident in my ability to help students improve their understanding of literature, their writing, and their standardized test scores.... My teaching philosophy focuses on the importance of adopting multiple teaching strategies. An innovative, flexible approach allows me to help a wide variety of students.... In a typical first session, I talk with a student to evaluate her goals, her areas of concern, and her personal strengths.

...Neuroscience and minors in Chemistry and Spanish. I've been teaching and tutoring for a year and a half as an Undergraduate Teaching Assistant in the Chemistry department, working with students one on one and in small groups in General and Organic Chemistry. As a pre-medical student and a Neuroscience major, I've taken extensive coursework in...

...fall, I am excited to take on my role as a lifelong learner - I know how empowering education and just figuring things out can be. I want to help students learn to love, too, for that precise reason. Be it scoring higher on a standardized test or needing help through a class they are...

...of Arts in Comprehensive Physics. Throughout my physics degree I have obtained an extensive knowledge of high level math and statistics. I joined several study groups and learned the importance of teaching my fellow students in order to gain a more concrete understanding of the material myself. After graduation, I had the opportunity to work...

...to write well and succeed in their college writing experiences. So I worked as a writing consultant at BYU's Research & Writing Center, helping students across campus to brainstorm, organize, craft, and revise their writing. During my time at the RWC, I completed over 700 tutoring sessions, working with writers and assignments from more than...

I earned a BA in Philosophy and Italian Literature form the University of Pittsburgh and an MS in Logic and Computation from Carnegie Mellon University . I have taught and served as a teaching assistant for undergraduate level courses in philosophy at both Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pennsylvania....

...need. I love being a tutor because getting to help others achieve academic success is a very rewarding. I enjoy being able to pass along the things that helped me to do well in my classes to other students who will benefit from them. In regards to my tutoring style, I am very big on...

...Pittsburgh's Main Campus in three years with a bachelors degree in biological sciences. I scored in 97th percentile on my ACT exam and I am willing to help others achieve the same score or a higher score. I am also an AP scholar and have taken 8 AP classes in high school.

...foster a safe environment for them to ask questions. I look forward to meeting new students via Varsity Tutors to continue this work and help them discover their own talents. I am working on my Master's in Rhetoric at Carnegie Mellon University, where I will commence my PhD this fall. Before coming to Pittsburgh, I...

I am an engineer having worked for 35 years . I would like to help students by tutoring in subjects like Physics, Engineering, Math and many more subjects. I am a kind and patient person and would like to gear my tutoring towards student's needs.

...overarching problem you're experiencing in a class, or the will to get ahead in a class, and I promise you that together we will achieve your goals. Out of all the tutors out there, why should you pick me? Well, for the past five years, I have been a tutor in a wide range of...

...I love sharing my love for learning and understanding English literature and language. I am also a Spanish minor, and love being able to exercise my skills by helping others understand the basics of the language. I also enjoy tutoring US history and social studies. The subject I am most passionate about teaching, however, is...

I am a seasoned virtual Math teacher with experience in teaching middle school math through Pre-Calculus in the online environment. I believe all students are capable of confidence in Math. With an emphasis on increasing fluency in the language of Math and building a conceptual understanding, I believe any student can change their proficiency trajectory.

My goal is to not only teach students their respective subjects, but to provide them with a set of problem solving skills that will help them break down challenging material independently in the future. ... To ensure students find the best way to learn material so that the subject is no longer such a daunting task.

...helping to understand material being focusing on in class. In helping others, not only did I begin to understand the material better myself, but I also began to enhance the understanding of my own learning processes. I then became more capable in mirroring these processes in those that I aided. My true passion for tutoring...

...Each student learns differently. To assume that every student in a classroom can learn at the same speed using teh same strategies is unreasonable. I don't teach my own students in a manner that assumes one-size-fits-all. As a tutor, I will help to differentiate learning so each of my students receives personal attention based on...