...I truly enjoy working with students individually to help them surmount the many challenges school places in their paths. I have been tutoring and teaching since 2008. I also tutored for the SUN after-school program in Portland, developed several classes for Saturday Academy, and teach SAT classes. (read more)
...I have four years of formal classroom experience teaching English to ESL learners, as well as experience in one on one and group tutoring in ESL. I have extensive experience tutoring Japanese and English in both one on one and in group settings, as well as both online and in person. I specialize in helping students learn basic, useful conversational language that you can use right away. (read more)
...My PhD is in Comparative Literatures; my Master's Degree is in American and British Literature. I also have a lot of experience teaching literature at both the high school and college levels. I enjoy helping students improve their reading skills through vocabulary improvement, identifying the main idea, narrowing choices, identifying tone, making inferences, etc. (read more)
...English has always been my passion but I understand its complexities can be challenging. My tutoring style includes getting to know the individual I'm tutoring so that I can relate the material to real experiences they've had to make understanding the different concepts in English easier. I am ... (read more)
...A major part of the classes in this program was group feedback, in which we critiqued pieces written by other students. I got a lot of experience in both giving and receiving constructive feedback, and developed an eye for the elements of good story structure, as well as common narrative problem... (read more)