Award-Winning Phonics Tutors serving Grayslake, IL

...relationships with students and their families can bolster the learning process. When working with students, I try to personalize the content to their interests whenever possible. I also try to give appropriate challenges; I want students to be engaged and always learning, but not overwhelmed and frustrated. As an educator, my passion is helping students...

Greetings! I am Lizbeth Alanis I am 24 years old and I am an elementary education teacher to be. I am so excited to help you with anything that you need!

...elementary and middle school level. I also have experience tutoring students in SAT/ACT test preparation in all associated sections. I am and always have been a lifetime learner and do all I can to impart this facet of myself on my students. In my spare time, I enjoy spending time with my wife and son,...

...understand the best way to proceed with the curriculum and course programming. It is also important to recognize approaches that include task- based activities, the use of cognitive grammar to explain common grammatical problems in students, the application of authentic materials in the classroom, gamification in the classroom, and an important emphasis on the communicative...

...my undergraduate and high school career, including reading to third graders, teaching juniors how to take the ACT, and editing many essays in college as well. I love aiding other students, even my own peers, and one, it brings me satisfaction when the light bulb finally clicks in the students' minds as well as I...

I love to share my knowledge of the political process and my love for history and philosophy with others. Language is very important to me and I hate it when words are mispronounced and misspelled. My interests are singing, movies, history and television, as well as politics and current events.... Always make the lesson light, and inject humor when possible.

...the PSAT, SAT and ACT and my students have shown tremendous growth in test scores. I have taught language, literature and history professionally for 19 years. My strengths as an educator include creating hands-on interactive activities to help students understand the material, and working with low-level readers to build confidence and ability.

...I am currently working on my Master's degree in Secondary Education with an emphasis in English and plan to eventually teach in high schools here in Chicago. Part of what I love about teaching is learning form my students. They might not know it, but I learn as much from them as they do from...

...content into manageable, practical concepts rooted in evidence-based practice and test-taking strategy. My goal is to support future SLPs with clear, focused guidance to build their confidence and help them pass the exam with success. I also provide middle school reading comprehension tutoring. I am a speech-language pathologist in a middle school with experience working...

...never ending. Learners will respond best to learning via the modality that suits them the best and in an environment that empowers them to enhance thier own learning about academics and life skills. I will try to accommodate each students learning style and ability so they will achieve greater understanding and ultimately better grades!

...Regardless of what I'm doing on any given day, one of the key components of my job is the ability to understand, paraphrase, and communicate complicated concepts to the public. Combined with my personal experience in coaching youth volleyball and serving as an interpreter for the US Forest Service last year, I have found I'm...

...obstacles. It's important to acknowledge we all have different cognitive levels of comprehension and with a little support from your Varsity Tutors, we both can engage in bidirectional learning where I learn as much as you do. With my special interest in the subjects of English (Language/ESL/lexical content, grammar content) Reading Comprehension, Phonics, Essay Conducting,...

...To test my skills, I became part of the Afro-Academic, Cultural, Technological, and Scientific Olympics (ACT-SO), an educational association that works toward student research and production of an individual project to be exhibited at a competition. This passion for competition and research has bettered me by feeding my hunger for knowledge and advancement. It was...

...date on the best educational practices. I got trained by some of the industry's top rated professionals such as Lucy Calkins, Jeff Anderson, and Dr. Nikki Newton. Also, I integrate Dr. Carol Dewek's growth mindset research into my instruction. I hope that we can work together to help you achieve your fullest potential!

I am a college student aspiring to teach high school, and I love spending time with students!

...my students. When I am away from tutoring and teaching I enjoy traveling; seeing new and exciting places. I've trained and taught martial arts for four years and I still find it very enjoyable. I am an avid gamer as well and spend my down time challenging myself against others in computer based strategy games.

...transferring to the University of Michigan- Ann Arbor where I earned my B.S. in Biomolecular Science. I am currently a high school chemistry teacher in the city of Chicago. I love to help others and tutoring is a way to have a small impact on such an important aspect of society, education.

I am an educator with 12 years of experience. My objective as an educator is to meet students where they are and work together to make progress and achieve goals.

...art and architectural studies and urban education policy respectively. Currently, I am enrolled at Northwestern University working on a master's in counseling psychology. I have worked with children and young adults in many different capacities including teacher, advocate, coach, and therapist. I use my love of learning and experienced academic skills to bring new and...

...and literature. I believe that it is most important to make learning fun and engaging. I always make sure the lesson is student centered. Students have a choice and their opinions are important. I enjoy traveling and learning about new places. I love new experiences and enjoy being a student myself by learning Japanese and...