...I stress that students should keep a notebook, and this notebook should include homework assignments with dates due and exam schedules for all classes. Students should take the notebook home each night and refer to it at a set time in order to keep up with assigned work. This set time should be... (read more)
...I also prepare students for the ACT, SAT, SSAT, HSPT, ISEE, PSAT, and NMSQT, helping them with the math, grammar, and writing sections. My students include middle school, high school, college, and adults. I speak English, French, German, Hungarian, and Spanish and have had to learn advanced grammar in college in all of these languages as compared to the minimal high school levels. (read more)
...When I tutor arithmetic, I start by having the person estimate the answer -- 105 - 88 is "one hundred something - eighty something. 10 - 8 = 2, 100 - 80 = 20, so the answer should be around twenty." Then we'll go over a few different ways of getting the answer, and you can use whichever method yo... (read more)
...I've always had a passion for helping budding writers find their voices. I've given master classes at California Institute of the Arts, U.S.C. and Augsburg College on film writing. I've also been a mentor at the Sundance Feature Film Lab for over twelve years. (read more)
...To transform a student's initial insecurity into a joyful and well-founded confidence is always both my aim and chief reward.My knowledge of English Grammar reflects the benefit of the elaborate process that anyone learning English academically as a second language must pass through. Before stud... (read more)