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I am very good at understanding what people don't understand about a given subject because I have probably had the same problem when I was taking the class and now I understand how to teach it. I have a lot of experience helping friends with calculus and physics and therefore can explain subject matter very well.Tutored roughly five different students ranging from Calculus 1-3 as well as high school physics and college physics. Most of the tutoring took place my junior and senior year of high school for students about to take the AP exam. Did a little bit of tutoring last year during college for students in their college calculus and physics classes.

I have been working in Education for the past 12 years. I've worked as an after school educator, a summer school and day time teacher, a substitute, a reading intervention specialist, and a tutor. I love what I do, and love working with students. I have been successfully tutoring with Huntington for the past 3 years, and enjoy working with students in a small group and 1:1 setting. Reliability is key in being an educator because your student's success depends on your responsibility as an educator, and I have been working both as a tutor and teacher for the past few years, and have been able to be a successful and responsible employee in both positions.

I have a wide breadth of knowledge of many different subjects that helps me explain difficult concepts from different perspectives. I like to have fun with the kids I tutor because I find that if I can make them laugh with a pneumonic device, they'll always remember it. This spring quarter is particularly laid back, so I know I won't have a reason to miss any appointments. I've always been responsible with the jobs I've held.I have tutored Chemistry at the high school and college level. I have also tutored Calc I at the high school level as well as Calc II at the college level.

Like I said above, I have spent a lot of time mentoring disadvantaged youth, mostly at group homes with females and males of age ranges 7-17. For whatever reason, I believe, in this life, there are those of us who like to help others, who have kind hearts and feel the need to reach out to others. I truly enjoy helping people learn and making a difference in their life; especially children and I believe a mentor/tutor teaches their pupil/s more than just a subject or content area; they teach them about life and the opportunities that can be afforded to them through a good education! I realize now--especially-- what a privilege receiving a good education is and how not all people are afforded the same luxuries that I was academically. I only wish I had known this at 18!As for reliability, I have such an open and flexible schedule right now and will for the foreseeable future so, keeping appointments is not exactly an issue for me. And to be frank, if I don't keep my appointments, my students will fall behind and then that creates more work for the both of us and that's just unnecessary.

I'm a great tutor because I'm a very good student myself and really enjoy helping others learn. I always liked school; even in elementary school I was the kid paying attention and participating in class. Even now that I've graduated I like learning in my free time. I'm always reading a book. I just finished "Slaughter House Five" by Kurt Vonnegut. I really like being able to use this knowledge to help others learn.I have always been a hard worker and it is important to me to keep my commitments. In school when I missed a class, I would make a point of meeting with someone else in that class to catch up on the material.While I was still at Cal Poly, I worked as an editor in the Philosophy Department. I also tutored a student in PHIL 230.I also worked as a tutor at the Tutoring Club in Captiola, CA. There, I tutored kids ranging from kindergarten to High School in beginning reading, middle school and high school writing and composition and pre-alegbra.

I would be a great tutor because I love working with people and youth. For example, I volunteer coaching youth sports and I also volunteer with the Oceano Advisory Council where I wrote its Bylaws and am responsible for informing the County of San Luis Obispo the various decisions we made concerning community development projects and other referrals involving the Oceano area.I have tutored various High School and Junior High students in writing throughout the years, but I have not had extensive experience. I have also assisted numerous college students with writing projects (especially when it came to citing sources and to clarify the meaning of their writing project.

I am extremely committed and reliable, and I am also very passionate about the subject areas I've listed above.I have my B.A. in Literature and was part of a program (The College of Creative Studies) at UCSB for students who prove to be particularly invested in their field of interest and are able to work in a loosely controlled environment. It was structured similarly to a graduate program with more accountability on the students. I also completed a minor and an internship in professional editing and have a very good understanding of English from a grammatical and structural standpoint. I have taken many workshopping classes in creative writing, and I am very comfortable working with and giving constructive criticism to people close to my own age.Additionally, spending time abroad has given me the communication skills to get along with and understand all types of people. The Spanish classes I took leading up to it and the experience itself gave me the language skills to feel comfortable tutoring Spanish and also to talk about Spanish culture and history.I believe that I'm a genuinely kind and caring tutor, and I genuinely enjoy doing it. I love getting to know people and seeing them succeed. I think one of the things that the people I tutor most appreciate is that I am extremely patient and encouraging, but I also try to challenge them and bring out their potential.

I am very patient with kids and I believe that I have a good understanding of how to explain difficult concepts to kids when they do not understand them. I have dealt with kids before failing classes because the teachers did not understand the individual needs of a student struggling with a single concept. When you work with a student one on one you can better understand WHY the student is not understanding the concept and figure out how to help them so they can understand it. The use of analogies and different wording that the students are familiar with and understand is often essential to their learning.