Award-Winning Writing Tutors in Melrose Park, IL

...teacher, and better yet, as a student. Having been a liberal arts double major, a law student, and an appellate clerk, I can help students with a myriad of writing assignments, college and law school admission essays, personal statements, LSAT prep, and law courses involving criminal and constitutional law. In my free time, I enjoy...

I believe that each student has the potential to succeed. By teaching the fundamentals and constantly encouraging progress and effort, any student can learn any topic.

...and music. I have two pet mice, Augustine and Pickles, and I am applying to PhD programs in English for next fall. I excel at test taking strategies. I have a track record of very high test scores, and I have plenty of practice passing on those skills to others. I am very patient and...

...ages. I taught weekly lessons to 2nd and 4th graders during the first year of my program at Vanderbilt and then student taught in a fifth grade and a kindergarten. Although I enjoy teaching in all subjects, my favorites are Language Arts, Reading, Spanish and Science. I also provide ACT tutoring. I am qualified to...

...CPS, and finally moved into a middle-school science and reading position in the northwest suburbs, where I recently began my 10th year as a classroom teacher. I love to teach, and I think that my teaching experience is diverse enough to make virtually any subject - and any audience - within reach. My favorite areas,...

...experience teaching (and practicing!) creative endeavors from poetry and fiction writing to music composition and performance. Just don't ask me to draw any hands! Despite my professional focus on liberal arts, I also have a keen amateur interest in science, primarily in physics (A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking was my introduction) but...

...leaders in their community; to provide them a platform to change issues about which they are most passionate. This experience inspires my desire to educate young students; to provide them the tools to be leaders, whether that be in the classroom, on the playing field, or in their community. My time as a youth soccer...

I have taught English at both high school and college levels. I have taught reading to children ranging between kindergarten and adulthood.

...below grade level. That’s when I decided to pursue a Master’s in Reading to address the problem. I tutored K­12 (all subjects) for three years to master the methodology I’d gleaned from professors before returning to the classroom. Since teaching is an art, I consider my instructional philosophy to be “versatility in motion” because learning...

...where I worked as an English Instructor for two years. I tutor a number of subjects, but I am most excited about English, Literature, and Spanish. I love helping students who are frustrated by the reading and writing portions of tests approach them from a different angle and overcome their anxieties about the testing process....