Certified Tutors From University of California-Santa Cruz

...Subject teaching credential from CSU Los Angeles. I love working with children especially with reading and writing. I am knowledgeable in the common core standards for K-5 and love to see students be successful in the classroom and develop a love of learning. I have experience working with gifted students, students below grade level, students...

...Princeton, Brown, and UC Berkeley to name a few. I am effective at tutoring because I love working one on one with students and helping the student achieve their goals of improvement. I have been tutoring students since high school. During my time at the university I also tutored in writing and helped students with...

...my son's 2nd grade class. I feel particularly at home teaching English writing and grammar to younger students because their minds are still open to the possibility that English grammar and writing can actually be fun. Currently, my time is divided on two fronts: working on a guidebook on picture frames, and revising my father's...

...career either in big companies, for the government or for consulting firms. I really enjoy teaching high school and middle school students. I also really like the outdoors and when I am not reading and teaching, I spend time with my teens and may friends sailing, skiing, hiking, kayaking, biking and swimming too. I also...

I am committed to providing an individualized and focused environment for my students so that they will achieve their learning goals.

...improvement. I was given assessments by tutors and teachers so that they could understand why I was having difficulty but not one of them thought to ask me why. It took me many years to find the answer for myself and even though I struggled a lot with math in my youth, I deal with...

...our ability to read well, and reading well has less to do with speed than with patience and focus. Now more than ever young people need practice in slowing down and thinking critically about written texts. This discipline, essential both to democratic discourse and the negotiation of private choices in one's life, can be fostered...

...own experience, it has been my mentors who have lifted me up and inspired me to work harder, learn from my failures, and believe in myself. I hope to be a guiding presence in the life of my students, helping them achieve their goals while developing their academic prowess. I earned my B.S in Molecular,...

I love teaching, and I've been doing it my whole life. My favorite things to teach are ESL, English, and writing. I also can help you with politics, government, and more. I look forward to working with you!

Hi! My name's Ari and I've been tutoring math and physics for over 10 years. I really enjoy working with students and helping them to understand a subject I find very interesting. I'm happy to help with material from elementary algebra through multi-variable calculus.

...difficult topics. I worked as a tutor for various topics in a university setting. I have also tutored students at their homes. I understand the value of tutoring since this helped me to excel at computer programming. I am at a point where I teach myself new topics and find it helpful to teach what...

...my students, and how I can help them. I believe it is important to tailor my lessons to each individual student, focusing on their preferred modality of learning, and using their strengths to improve their weaknesses. I have taught elementary school for eight years now, and worked with ESL and special needs students. I believe...

...to learn! To that end, I have taught students from age 5 to 98, in a wide variety of settings and under quite a range of circumstances for more than forty years. Aside from teaching English Composition and ESL at four California community colleges, in Japan for a year, and briefly at The University of...

...in a Museum Studies program at Harvard University's Extension school. My previous experience includes youth group leadership, volunteering with the National Park Service, and working in a library. While working at the library I helped people of all ages find books that fit their interests. I am passionate about the subjects I tutor and would...

...Awards and Fellowships at UW-Madison: Campus-wide Teaching Assistant award for Innovation in Teaching, an award given to 15 grad students out of 2200 TAs University Housing teaching award, a student-nominated honor David Maraniss Fellow at the School of Journalism and Mass Communication Hoffman-Halls Emerging Artist Fellow at the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing In addition...

As a Professor of English, I have worked with hundreds of students on ACT, SAT and academic preparation. I hold a Ph.D. in Literature, two Master's degrees and a B.A. from UC Berkeley, where I was a Regents' and Chancellor's Scholar. I love helping students to work toward their goals!

...interests, as well as, create learning experiences that are engaging and helpful. I have been a preschool teacher, an elementary teacher, a middle school English teacher, and now I work as an adult literacy educator. During my time as a middle school teacher, I was given the amazing opportunity to work with emerging bilingual students...

...Arts in Mathematics. I also possess a Masters Degree in Education from the University of Oregon. I have over twelve years of experience tutoring math at the upper elementary, middle school, high school, and college levels. My passion is helping students gain confidence in mathematics. I am fluent in Spanish and have also tutored students...

...in the United States for 38 years and then "retired" to Honduras and promptly opened a school for middle-school-age students where she taught for 17 more years. As that school grew, I joined as a teacher and director of the school. I have been teaching students for 30 years, in subjects ranging from phonics to...

...my bachelor of science in Human Biology from UC Santa Cruz and my masters of science in oral health sciences from Boston University. During undergrad, I tutored college students in molecular biology and after graduating I became a middle school instructor. I enjoy helping students and making difficult material easy to understand. In my spare...