Certified Tutors From Occidental College

...taught Cultural Anthropology courses for the past 12 years at the college level. I am a people person who enjoys getting to know new people and forming new relationships. I love to tutor and to teach as it allows me to help a student in need develop new skills and strengths through aiding them along...

...kids ages 5-22 for the past 7 years in Mathematics, English, and Writing. From personal experience, I think it is important to be able to teach many different ways of solving or answering a problem in case my student prefers a certain way of thinking. I love coming up with new ways to teach material...

...across the country, tattooing endgangered butterflies in Albany New York, master planning airports in the Lower Yukon-Kuskokwin region of Alaska, regulating energy and telecommunications in California, and Wall Street finance. Each of those jobs required learning based on but beyond what I carried away with my diplomas. Learning is a lifelong calling. Each of those...

...below grade level, I will use the techniques I have acquired through my educational and professional experience to bring that child up to, or above, grade level. When working with an adult, I will confer directly with that person to set goal for his or her sessions, and will then design specific lesson plans to...

...an educator, I model a lifelong love of learning and teach to spark the curiosity of everyday young thinkers. I guide students to engage in study in ways that challenge them to think, explore, and express their ideas. I encourage analytical thinking, so that students may connect what they have learned in school and tutoring...

...with a variety of learners including English as a Second Language students, honors and AP students in reading comprehension, writing, and grammar. She has extensive experience working with students needing support in history, math (up to Calculus), English, Spanish and Science. Ripsime specializes in working with elementary through high school students. She received her Bachelors...

...every student as a unique challenge. I have found substantial success as a tutor because I understand that every problem can be broken down to more simple questions. By breaking down larger problems into discrete steps, I'm able to teach a replicable approach to problems in a way that makes sense to them. I often...

...and background as a writer, teacher, coach and mentor to help others of all ages build their knowledge and skills as they work toward accomplishing a goal they've set for themselves. I look forward to learning about your goals and the opportunity to work with you or your child. *Experience teaching writing for ages ranging...

...and writing are my passions. I hope to use these interests in my tutoring by framing the history we discuss as a story about real people who sought to change the world and build the lives they wanted. As a self-described autodidact, I understand that every person learns a little differently. I hope to learn...

...I volunteered as an educator at a wildlife camp in Massachusetts. Since then, I have tutored sixth grade math in the highly-competitive City Year program through AmeriCorps, and worked for a year as an after-school educator in an elementary school. I come from a family of educators, who instilled in me a belief that education...

...Sam M. Walton Free Enterprise Fellow for the University of Michigan chapter of "Students in Free Enterprise" (SIFE). Dr. Johnson is an experienced educator in undergraduate and graduate education, specializing in adult-learning techniques, career development, and professional skills. He has expertise in applied research and advanced statistical analysis for behavioral assessments, test development, process modeling,...

...patiently explain concepts in as many different ways as took for everyone to understand). But when I found myself in a spring freshman writing class (that I had picked from a list for its name alone, 'The Hero vs Death and God') in which we were reading Gilgamesh, The Odyssey, and the Aeneid, suddenly a...

...believe math should be accessible to all and every student has the potential to succeed in and enjoy the subject. I focus on building understanding as well as confidence and curiosity in the problem solving process. I work hard to maintain up-to-date knowledge of new curriculum content and provide teaching that is appropriate for each...

...levels of interest. The students that I have tutored have particularly enjoyed certain hands-on activities that have helped them gain a deeper understanding of the material, such as engaging with virtual simulations that illustrate important physical concepts and coding an interactive game that requires user input. I understand that different students learn differently and require...

...was for me and I spent time working on a research boat and a year in Costa Rica when I did my graduate degree. I have worked with students throughout my career. In college I TAed and taught a course on the research boat. In grad school I taught classes and TAed. I also individually...