Award-Winning Tutors serving Southwest Portland, OR

...I enjoy building relationships with kids in order for them to find success academically. I also strive to be a role model. I value honesty. I excited to work with students because I love watching students take ownership and begin to enjoy finding success academically... Especially if it's an area that they believe they have...

...visual methods of learning to really deeply absorb a topic, so I try to listen to my students and approach their lessons with the lens which fits them best. I love big concepts and like to connect simple skills to the larger picture in a way that stops anyone from coming from a lesson saying...

...tutoring stems from my time working as a physics TA as well as working as a math tutor for a teaching facility in the Seattle area. I've always have had a passion for helping others and one of my favorite things is seeing students light up when they finally understand a difficult subject. When not...

...My philosophy is not only to teach students the subjects they struggle with, but also to help them develop intuition, independence, and appreciation for math and science to carry with them throughout their educational career. At school, I enjoy running our college radio station and playing squash! I am an avid outdoorsman and love to...

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My aim as a tutor is to help students to achieve their personal potential so that they feel confident with the subject material and learn skills that help them to learn independently through their future studies.... My teaching philosophy is to help students with the course material by guiding them to a point of understanding and confidence with what they are learning. I feel it is most important for me to help students figure out a...

...a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and a minor in Web Technologies and Applications. I currently work as a software developer in McMinnville, Oregon. I am tutoring the LSAT, and my strongest section is Logic Games. Through my own preparation for taking the LSAT, I have learned a lot about strategy and analyzing the...

...Pacific University. I recently taught composition (levels 1 and 2) at Northwest Kansas Technical College. The part of teaching I enjoyed the most was working with students one-on-one to give them tips that were specific to their writing voices. If that sounds like the kind of help you need, I'd love to try and give...

...where I truly excel is in my ability to take decent writing and make it powerful. I know how to wield syntax and descriptive language such that a piece becomes succinct and clear. This enables the author to get their point across exactly as they intend, and to do it succinctly enough to hold the...

...should be flexible and made to fit the student. It's good to take breaks and let your brain rest. My tutoring style is to be a guide and to help a student "learn how to learn", so to speak. I like to try to get the student to pull on previous knowledge and to learn...

I'm a recent graduate of Lewis & Clark College in Portland, OR where I double majored in Physics and in Math. I've taught classes at Lewis & Clark and tutored local high school kids. I love learning new things and helping other people do the same.

...Nevada, Reno and received my Bachelor of Science in Community Health Sciences with a focus on Public Health. I have previously tutored organic chemistry, but am very passionate about public health and environmental health. I enjoy seeing students achieve their academic goals and improve in academia. In my free time I enjoy reading and doing...

...about helping each of my students develop a love of learning, self-confidence and success in and out of the classroom. My greatest joy is helping to unlock a student's potential through literacy and language. I believe reading and writing create exciting opportunities for each student to accomplish great things! My experiences learning Ancient Greek, Latin...

Lifelong learner with a commitment to excellence, customer focus, and continuous process improvement.

...Science in Business Administration with a primary concentration in Economics and a secondary concentration in Healthcare Management. Miss Couch is interested in pharmaceutical and prosthetic sales as well as commercial banking, preferably in the healthcare sector. As a current Sophomore, Miss Couch is actively seeking an internship in the latter fields. Miss Couch graduated from...

...train stronger writers to write refined prose. Great progress can be made this way. I teach writing as a process by encouraging students to embrace drafting. We take time to understand the project, brainstorm, follow idea threads, and write first drafts. Then the feedback and revision process begins, which leads to a final, polished piece....

...in all stages of the writing process. I believe that dialogue and interaction are the most effective ways to teach and learn, both through implicit and explicit methods. I tutor so that students will understand why and how a concept functions, and then be able to organize it and analyze its different parts. My strongpoints...

...taught and worked in the education realm in both Peru and Mexico City. Most recently, I've spent my time in the US working for educational nonprofits like Teach For America and the KIPP charter network. I love teaching and learning - I believe everyone has their own learning style and am always happy to get...

...as endorsements in Language Arts and History. Other education includes a Bachelor of Religious Education degree from Prairie Bible College in Three Hills, Alberta, Canada and coursework at the Summer Institute of Linguistics at Trinity Western University in Langley, British Columbia, Canada. I tutor in English, Language Arts, History, Drama, Reading, Creative Writing, Study Skills...

...and Public Speaking instructor for the Boy Scouts as well as a sales trainer for a major bookstore chain. I have also spent two years teaching science and engineering at the high school level. While I feel that I am well versed in a variety of subjects, my specialties would be math and composition. I...