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Greetings! My name is Chris, and I am looking forward to working with students desiring to improve their grasp of reading, writing, and the English language. I am a professional editor and tutor in the Metropolitan State University of Denver Writing Center. I’m currently earning my MA in Rhetoric and the teaching of writing. My background and education center on Read more...
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Teaching children is truly a dream come true for me. I attended the University of Iowa and graduated with a BA in English. After a few years in the “real world” I decided my heart was in education and I knew it was time to go back to school and make my dream a reality. I enrolled in Metropolitan State Read more...
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Years ago I saw a television interview with a writer (I don’t remember who it was) who said: “There is no good writing; there is only good rewriting.” At the time this was only an interesting and unusual thing to say because my teachers were busy teaching me how to write (or trying to), and none of them mentioned or Read more...
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I am an experienced language arts and ESL teacher. In my seven years of teaching, I’ve taught almost the full range of language arts classes from high school to middle school. I use a wide array of teaching strategies and can help you improve practically any skill having to do with the English language. This includes reading comprehension, literary analysis, Read more...
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I know the feeling, being trapped in a school system that doesn’t offer the necessary help and support. Instead of giving supportive reasons to understand the academic delay in the students, the school system instead sends families to fend for themselves to find the right answers. In essence, with my background in communication and educational psychology I can evaluate the Read more...
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When I was teaching English as a second language in Jing Zhou, China, I had many amazing experiences, but probably my best was helping a senior get into his dream architecture graduate program in the USA. He had achieved every metric of success and all the qualifications he needed to get into the program at the University of Washington, but Read more...
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I’m a highly experienced tutor with several years of classroom experience, teaching English to Japanese junior high school students and more than 10 years of tutoring in various capacities. I began by tutoring classmates in Math, Science and Economics while in high school and have continued to do so in volunteer roles as an adult, teaching through the Minds Matter Read more...
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The basis of my teaching technique is just that, basics. If a student of any discipline is experiencing trouble, it is almost always because of a deficiency in basics. This is why a student may have trouble in subjects such as Reading or English writing proficiency. My job is to identify that deficiency and transfer learned knowledge from basics to Read more...
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I’m a 2006 graduate of Brown University, where I studied writing, literature, math, and critical theory among other things and a 2012 graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, which many consider the best writing program in the world. I’ve worked as a tutor, teacher, or professor for twelve years. I taught high school math and high school English before entering Read more...
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I am a former communications executive who now offers tutoring services to all ages. I have a bachelor’s degree in English Literature and a master’s degree in English with emphasis in creative writing.I have raised three kids, helping them with their studies along the way; all have graduated from college and lead successful lives. I am a patient and kind Read more...
