Viewing credentialed tutors from Roosevelt University

...create a successful tutoring session I believe the session must be student centered. During my student teaching experience at Whitney M. Young Magnet School I learned the importance of establishing rapport with the students. A strong rapport helps to create a relaxed learning environment. I also keep my lessons interesting by intertwining current events, my...

...undergraduate. I have tutored privately and for Roosevelt University and taught mathematics for a year in Nashville, TN. I believe that an understanding of mathematics is essential and I have given many students a greater understanding and confidence in mathematics. I believe that every student can succeed and I bring that attitude with me to...

...explanations and effort. I am always eager to help someone understand concepts that are foreign to them because I love seeing them have an "Ah-ha!" moment and experiencing that moment myself as an everyday learner. In my spare time, I enjoy reading, listening to music, jogging, swimming, catching up on TV shows and watching films.

...to swim and am a member of the Evanston Wildcat Masters Swim Team. Also I love to travel in Latin America. During the summer of 2014 and 2017, I traveled in Costa Rica and got many chances to use my Spanish! I hope you will contact me soon. Thank you for your time!... My teaching philosophy is centered around my students. With them, I try to figure out how they learn best and plan lessons around their learning style. For example, if someone is very visual, then I have him/her draw pictures to help remember vocabulary words, but I also make suggestions of strategies that I think might help someone learn. I usually prepare a plan A and a plan B for my students.

...benefit to the students by better preparing them to cope with the various issues that they may face in life, and therefore reinforcing their classroom learning experiences. I am willing to put in additional time and effort to help an individual student, including one-on-one instruction or additional material on a given subject or concept. Every student...

...it can quickly feel like it is too late to catch up. My goal is to work together to pick up the pieces that were lost or are close, but not quite there: learning the way you want to learn and the way you learn best rather than having topics taught at you. For standardized...

...taken several classes in secondary and post-secondary education. I have experience tutoring special needs students, including gifted and autistic students. I have experience tutoring ESL and ELL students across disciplines. I am a passionate tutor that will work tirelessly with any and all students to get them to shine. I believe every child has the...

...it. I taught a high school classroom of high functioning students with autism in a therapeutic school for over four years. My teaching experience was very enjoyable, but highly frustrating as well. We worked hard to change behaviors and motivate progress academically and socially. Unfortunately we did not always have the support of families, and...

...my own beats. If I'm not making music, maybe you'll find me eating tacos or pasta. When it comes to tutoring, I feel comfortable working with both higher and lower levels of math. Whether it's calculus or elementary number facts, I can break things down to make them easy for students of any level to...

...direct way to solve a problem and then being able to communicate it to someone else. A person's confidence in themselves is a huge part of being motivated to learn a subject, and I strive to help people build that confidence. My passions are teaching, languages, learning about science, world history, and listening to music.