My ultimate goal as a tutor is not to teach someone how to solve a problem or pass a test, but to teach the essential knowledge needed to succeed in a course beyond the raw grade. I believe that through a holistic assessment of a subject, it will be easier for someone to learn how to accomplish tasks related to that subject in the future. I hope to get students to a point where they...
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...Qualified in Spanish and looking forward to helping others become bilingual. I have had the privilege of teaching at public, private and charter schools, including a two-year stint in the Dominican Republic. Because I have seen so many different educational strategies and philosophies at work, I am able to glean the best techniques from each strategy and implement them in my teaching/tutoring. I am an advocate of the Love & Logic philosophy of classroom management,...
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...understanding instead of rote memorization and that each pupil is best suited for a tailored teaching plan that takes into account your current abilities, time commitments, strengths/weaknesses, and desired result. My hobbies and interests include reading (literature), creative writing, calligraphy, and video games. I grew up in bilingual household, so I can also speak Mandarin in a near-native level and studied and travelled extensively in Europe and Asia. I hope to be a writer someday,...
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...a host of requests that ranged from 50 Cent to Miley Cyrus. I chose this approach because I feel that learning is best internalized when a student feels like he or she can own their learning process. This means that the teacher works to facilitate guided discovery and so is in constant dialogue with the student. Those students needed to learn English in a way that was relevant to them. This approach has been informed...
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...Global Studies. I have been holding private tutoring sessions for students between the ages 5 and 18 for the past six years. In addition, I was an Anatomy and Physiology teaching assistant in college. While in college, I also taught English to students in Ecuador and Nicaragua. I have experience in tutoring English (reading and writing), math (elementary school level, pre-algebra, algebra, and statistics), science (biology, chemistry, and environmental science), social studies, SAT prep, and...
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...have worked with many students on IEPs and love to help them strengthen their organization and focus. I believe that my teaching style adapts to ensure that each student can reach their full potential. By understanding where students have weaknesses, we can improve in these areas so that their grades improve and that they feel more confident. Outside of tutoring, I love to spend time with my family, friends and my dog.
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...despise it, so I understand what techniques to do to prevent this. I spent most my life in Abu Dhabi, in the UAE, and went through the International Baccalaureate (IB) program and had very good teachers that I personally had a good relationship with, which helped the whole learning process. I've picked up some good tips and tricks that if learnt can really help you ease through beginning mathematics, whether it be in high school...
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...about teaching the humanities, especially history, psychology and literature. I am equally passionate about teaching the skills each of these disciplines requires for mastery: critical thinking; reading and comprehension strategies; academic writing and effective research methods. My areas of expertise include American and European history (as well as historiography). I specialize in political and military history, and my interests touch upon issues such as conflict and warfare, colonialism, technology, social psychology and religion. I have...
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...love with others. So, while I did well in all subjects, history was and always had been my especial favorite (sadly, not too many students need extra tutoring in history, alas). Truman State's MAE program gave me the opportunity to translate that love of history to the classroom, giving me the teaching competencies to share it with students on a wide scale. The intense program gave me hundreds of hours of experience in the classroom,...
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...is being able to break complex ideas down into their constituent parts, and I like to plan sessions ahead of time so that our sessions can be as organized and rewarding as possible. I believe in making tests feel more like games than like exams, and to do this, I focus on testing strategy, which has proved successful for me during my SAT and graduate level exams. In addition to my background in test prep,...
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...United States, including: - Choate Rosemary Hall (prep school) - Wallingford, CT - Lewis & Clark College (BA International Affairs) - Portland, OR - Lewis & Clark Graduate School of Education (MAT Middle/High School) - Portland, OR I teach Spanish, English and Social Studies (all levels). My teaching style focuses on a humanistic worldview and attention to context and critical thinking. Students are encouraged to use the tools they were born with, in order to make...
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...moved to Thailand, completed my TESOL certification, and spent a year teaching English as a foreign language to Thai students ages 3-4 and 10-11. Working in the classroom was both fun and exhausting, but I especially enjoy one-on-one or small group learning situations because it allows for the opportunity to target individual weaknesses and turn them into strengths. I am especially interested in tutoring writing and study skills/techniques, or in working with any IB Diploma...
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...preparation and study techniques anyone can master their required standardized test. I consider your success to be my success- I will do everything within my capabilities to empower you with the strategies, confidence and positive attitude to do your absolute best on your test. Outside of academics, I am a huge music fan, and I love writing, producing, and listening to music of pretty much any genre. I'm also into college and professional sports, especially...
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I am a teacher and tutor with over 16 years of experience in education. I have taught AP American Government, AP World History, AP Macro Economics, and most secondary Social Studies courses with great success. It is my pleasure to use my wealth of knowledge, patience and holistic teaching styles to help my students reach their highest potential. I look forward to exceeding all your tutoring needs and helping increase achievement in the areas you...
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...& MSc from Western Oregon Univ. and a BA from Westmont College, Santa Barbara, CA. Subjects I have taught include history, Theory of Knowledge (IB), IB biology, earth sciences, IB environmental science, geography, religion, IB philosophy, literature, anthropology, archaeology, art, composition, literature, life skills, etc. Along with my varied education and degrees, I bring genuine, holistic life-experiences and diverse global perspectives to each field wherein I teach. My honors include two teacher of the year...
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...importantly, I love learning and have come realize that it is my vocation to share and impart that love of learning in others. As beautifully put by Roman Stoic philosopher Seneca in his moral epistles: "[P]art of the joy in learning is that it puts me in a position to teach; nothing, however outstanding and however helpful, will ever give me any pleasure if the knowledge is to be for my benefit alone. If wisdom...
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...broad range of subjects, I am most passionate about History, Government, and college prep. I thoroughly enjoy working with students and feel that good learning only happens through a solid foundation of understanding if you don't understand Algebra 2, then you can't learn Calculus. Similarly, if you never learned about the Revolutionary War and the creation of the Constitution, then you can't properly learn about US Politics and Government. Additionally, I believe that a quality...
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...America in training their newest educators. In these roles I have seen amazing results from both children and adult learners while also having fun. While I tutor and teach a broad range of subjects, I am most passionate about American History. I am a firm proponent of equipping students with the reading and writing skills necessary to excel at the collegiate level. In my spare time, I enjoy reading, coaching football and track & field,...
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...worked as a consultant at my school's Writing Resources Center, assisting students with their academic papers. In this position, I helped our clients improve the overall structure of their papers, strengthen their research, cite their sources, and correct their spelling and mechanics. I feel confident that I can address any paper problems you might have and make the writing process less intimidating. Aside from academic papers, I also write comedy sketches and spend most of...
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...Spanish, including test prep for SAT subject tests or Spanish Language AP tests. I also tutor Japanese, clarinet, and public speaking. My favorite subjects to tutor are any involving ESL or foreign language as I have a passion for language learning and teaching. I speak English, Spanish, and Portuguese, and have also studied Japanese, German, Brazilian Sign Language, and Italian. I would describe my teaching philosophy as friendly but structured. I use lesson plan organization...
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Recent IB Geography SL Tutoring Session Notes
Today, the student and I worked on more assessment review. She took three review quizzes (Native Americans and European Exploration, Colonial Georgia, and the American Revolution) and then we discussed the questions that she missed. As we talked through the questions, we realized that she missed them due to not reading the questions carefully. Once we re-read the questions, she was able to identify the correct answer. There were also a few questions that she had not covered in class yet, but I explained to her that there will be some questions on the assessment that she will not know. She needs to be comfortable answering questions that she is unfamiliar with. I also spent time talking to the student and her mother about courses for next year.
Reviewed significant people from Colonial period through Reconstruction and categorized them by contribution. Began outline and pre-writing for final essay. Labeled significant geographical features of the continental United States.
Assigned two more ACT vocab sheets for next session. The student's mother would like copies or originals of pretests in both English and Social Studies to mark "home schooling" progress. We will finish up all Social Studies content in the next two sessions together. At that point, she will complete an online 8th grade Social Studies culminating final, and the remainder of our sessions will focus strictly on English.
The student completed 2/3 of the English homework, getting stuck on the 3rd part of the essay on Edgar Allen Poe. The third part asks her to discuss his poems and writing style. She had written on tone, so we added rhyme, symbols, theme, and repetition. Then she added a few favorite quotes (required), and concluded. The piece still remaining is for her to write a narrative poem on Jackie Robinson. For the remaining hour, we worked on postcards assignment in Ancient Civ. She was to write 5 postcards home from various ancient Roman ruins. We listened to audio lectures, took note, and wrote the postcards. As our time ended, she was ready to submit assignment.
The student and I finished his math and social studies homework. His math was about measuring and using appropriate units. It was a straightforward assignment and he completed it quickly and with very little difficulty. His social studies homework took much more time and effort because it required writing extended responses to some review questions for the chapter he has been working on, Ancient Greece. We worked together to write comprehensive and well-organized paragraphs, with introduction sentences, specific details, and a conclusion. He did fairly well with this more structured approach to writing, and we will try to do the same thing in the future.
I met with the student on May 1st. He had been sick the day before so we worked on the assignments he missed. After we completed the reading assignment he missed, I asked brief questions to check his comprehension and understanding of the chapter. We worked on an extra credit writing assignment on Pizarro. He did not do any reading journal entries and he will try to do at least two before our next meeting. I think the reading journal entries (just two to three sentences per entry) will really help him and I look forward to seeing what he writes next week.
We worked on his Social Studies assignment regarding the 1960s to 1970s, especially focusing on Vietnam.
He then had a couple of problems with his mathematics (geometry rotations, translation, and reflections).
