Award-Winning Tutors in Portsmouth, VA

...the national organization Council for Undergraduate Research to present my research to congress at their annual Posters on the Hill symposium. I was inducted into several honor societies and graduated cum laude. I then moved to San Francisco to complete my masters degree at San Francisco State University in Cellular and Molecular Biology. During my 2 years as a graduate student I taught hematology and completed a research project designing an assay for testing specific...

Everyone should learn a second language. Learning a second language opens one up to a second culture, which leads to curiosity about even more cultures. We are all one, we should know or at least want to know about the world beyond our backyard. A worldly citizen is a responsible citizen. Come with me, and I'll help you navigate your way into another world.... Immersion and practicality are my teaching philosophies. The best way to learn...

...of the Ocean Club my junior and senior year, volunteered with Mids for Kids teaching 7th grade science, and taught Sunday school for 2nd graders at my church. I participated in a summer internship my sophomore year called SWIFT (Severe Weather In Field Training) where myself and a team of students and faculty spent several weeks in the mid-west forecasting and chasing sever weather. My junior year I interned at the United States Naval Research...

I am a retired naval officer and teacher's assistant. I have an extensive background working with special education students. I believe in tying all topics from history to math, to science, to real world experiences and current events affecting my student. As I am retired I am very flexible in the time and place i can meet with student. Very much looking forward to meeting and supporting the success of future students.

I am a second-year Spanish major at Old Dominion University and a volunteer translator with Translators Without Borders. Having studied Spanish for eight years both in and out of the country, I know how difficult picking up a new language can be. My goal is to make this process less frustrating and help students feel more comfortable using Spanish practically.

Hard-working senior at Old Dominion University working in biological research that loves to help others! I am currently open to tutoring Organic Chemistry and Japanese students.

...individual and took an interest in my life and learning style. This philosophy guides me as a teacher. I provide individualized instruction based on a student's strengths and needs. There is no one size fits all approach in education. I have extensive experience teaching science to special education students. I have found that the strategies that make these students successful work for all students. As a classroom teacher, I have worked with students with ranging...

...Science, I taught as a Basic Life Support Instructor for American Heart Association. This was over a decade ago. I was a tutor for the University of Toledo, and still to this day am asked to instruct for adults in my profession. Most recently training adults for COVID-19 respiratory failure last month. Teaching is a skill I firmly believe is one that should be handed down generation to generation. Currently, I am a Critical Care...

...certification from International Open Academy. I've been teaching ESL for 2 years now and I am very familiar with how to teach English to non native speakers. I look forward to helping you in any way I can as you proceed towards mastering the English language. Keep up the good work! I have always enjoyed teaching, so I believe tutoring will be a great fit for me. I use a whiteboard, flashcards, magnetic alphabet and...

...I realized that I could offer hope to life's most challenged citizens. A wheelchair-ridden fully disabled adult had the time of his post injury life. However; it wasn't just this experience at Camp Bruce McCoy that brought me to the conclusion of teaching, mentoring, and tutoring. It was all of them: Cathy the brain-injured teenager that could now hit a softball, Muriel, who learned how to read her first book, Bobby with Asperger's syndrome. The...