...Sometimes school isn't the easiest place to learn, especially with such large class sizes, and the inability for a teacher to focus on each student individually. I believe having a tutor who makes learning fun, is important, and the success achieved from the one to one relationship, builds confidence. The moment we feel successful, confidence grows, and self image, and esteem flourish. (read more)
...I encourage them to dissect the material and to focus on what the author is trying to convey. I majored in Spanish in college as well as lived and traveled throughout Spain. I have hosted several exchange students from Uruguay in the past and learned more about their culture and language. (read more)
...I was pre-med for first three years of my undergraduate career and decided to add English as a major late in my junior year. I double majored in Zoology and English. Thus, I have a good grasp and extensive background in the natural sciences--particularly, biology, microbiology, chemistry, organic chemistry, and biochemistry--as well as English. (read more)
...Our English analysis encompassed about 650 years, through Milton's Paradise Lost, to Shakespeare's Macbeth++, to Wordsworth's, Tennyson's, Browning's and Arnold's poems, to Bronte's Jane Eyre, to Wilde's Importance of Being Ernest, to Kipling's Kim, to Conrad's Typhoon, etc. My Master's degree i... (read more)
...I can help students understand the concepts behind specific problems and how those concepts fit into the big picture. And perhaps most importantly of all, I love mathematics, and I have always enjoyed helping others learn to love it, too! I did quite well in all my middle and high school math classes, including geometry. (read more)