Top online tutors near Sun Village, CA

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$20

1 lesson

30 mins each

James Masnov
Monmouth, OR

Historian/Writer/Lecturer

As a published writer, professor, and someone who has written countless essays and evaluated countless more, I am uniquely positioned to assist students with their writing. My experience with tutoring or teaching students of various grades/levels/ages goes includes much of the past decade, whether as a professor, a writing tutor for various tutoring services, an academic writing tutor for a community college, an essay evaluator for the history department of a prominent university, or as a tutor in a private, self-employed capacity. I have helped students with their essay writing in numerous subjects and disciplines, including history, political science, pre-law/legal studies, various social science subjects (sociology, criminal justice, psychology, etc), English (composition and/or English lit., etc. If a student needs help with writing essays, regardless of subject or topic, I can help them significantly, not only in reaching their goals of finishing assignments, but in honing their research and writing skills overall. My background, including experience as a professor and academic writing tutor, includes a master's degree in history from Portland State University and a bachelor's degree in history from Western Oregon University. I have won awards for my own essay writing over the years, and my writing has been published in various outlets. Numerous articles of mine have been published in both academic and general-interest publications, and my book about the history of the Supreme Court was published by McFarland Press in 2023. Writing is a crucial skill. Writing does not merely allow us to share our thoughts. It actually helps us to think more critically, exercise our abstract reasoning, and understand the importance of evidence-based argumentation. I can help students hone these skills. I know this because I have a record of doing so, and it is something I very much enjoy. Students are empowered when they can write engagingly and convincingly.

$20

1 lesson

30 mins each

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$25

1 lesson

60 mins each

Will Laferriere
Silverton, OR

Linguist French Teacher, The Bilingual Method

I have been teaching and tutoring French for over 10 years. I have also taught High School Spanish and crash courses in Mandarin Chinese and German. My degree and experience in Linguistics helps me to avoid using technical jargon and explain how French works without intimidating or confusing my students. My teaching approach is friendly and conversational, and is most influenced by the Direct Approach methodology of Siegfried Engelmann and the Bilingual Method of Wolfgang Butzkamm. My lessons are fun and engaging, and they produce phenomenal results! My students, of all skill levels and backgrounds, find the exercises to be intuitive and exciting. Best of all, they find that they quickly develop the skills and knowledge necessary to no longer need a tutor, and that their understanding of French is profound. Though I love tutoring and getting my students up to snuff in their classes, my comprehensive French course is the best way to begin. In my comprehensive course, I take an absolute beginner, or a struggling intermediate student, and run them through the entire structure of the language, while providing them with a very large and productive vocabulary. In my free time I often study Latin and Ancient Greek, or the native languages of the students to whom I teach English. I also homeschool my children and work as a phonics instructor to children and adults. Language and literacy are my world.

$25

1 lesson

60 mins each

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$20

1 lesson

30 mins each

Kiara Smith
Colorado Springs, CO

Violin/Viola lessons for all ages (4+) and experience

I have been studying violin for 12 years. I began in the summer before my 8th grade year and continued through high school. After that, I majored in music in college where I learned more than I could imagine from my violin instructor. I learned not only how to play the violin more beautifully and functionally, but how to practice in a mindful, productive, and healthy way. Practicing an instrument intentionally can perpetuate overall personal growth. After 3 years with that instructor, and an Associate's of Arts in Music degree, I went to the University of Wyoming to get a bachelor's degree. I was there for 2 years where I studied violin from another professor. He taught me a lot more about how the violin itself functions. There was also a time when I developed an injury in my wrist from playing. My professor helped me not only recover, but learn how to adjust my playing ever so slightly to avoid re-injury. I graduated with a Bachelor's of Music Education. From there, I taught music in public schools for 2 years. This experience helped me learn more about human development and learning. I was nurtured and taught by my supervisors how to maximize learning time and to differentiate and individualize instruction to meet every student's needs. I learned how social emotional skills can be taught through any lesson and I believe that one on one learning can maximize all skill building.

$20

1 lesson

30 mins each

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$35

1 lesson

30 mins each

Liam Connerly
Colorado Springs, CO

Middle and High School Latin & Etymology Teacher, TikTok Educator, life-long learner

Each lesson and plan of attack is by design between both the client and myself. Sometimes, with the amount of material I've garnered and procured over my years instructing at the secondary levels and tutoring at undergraduate levels. Our classes are always a continual conversation, where we assess, discuss how fluency is going, and whether we need to pivot and slow/hasten the rigor of instruction. I also have an educational TikTok, YouTube, and Podcast (Latin in Layman's- A Rhetoric Revolution) which has brought people to seek me out in order to just START learning Latin. Most of my clients are actually not in a Latin class, they just simply want to learn and grow. I embrace the concepts of being a lifelong learner. Everyone is growing up in this world… Throughout my time instructing, I’ve come to learn that while my students are growing up into this world, so is everyone else, regardless of age: I am, while my parents are, while you are, while your parents are, while my students’ parents are, while… Well, I digress. Life is truly humbling when you embrace the fact that you’ll never know everything (even if you tried.) Therefore, my philosophy revolves around learning for the sake of learning. Latin has imbued this in me since my genesis in teaching it; something as esoteric as a “Dead Language” actually lays roots in medicine, the legal discipline, culture, mathematics, history, etymology, Anthropology, Chemistry, English grammar, et cetera! Regardless of whether a student will use “the quadratic formula” or “subjunctive grammar concepts” or the understanding of an “acute vs. obtuse angle” later into their lives isn’t the point nor goal of education; it’s the aspect of learning something new and investing in our brains like we do in all other facets of our lives that we care about… The point isn’t “why” are we learning these concepts but rather “how” can these disciplines open up my understanding of the world around me more so than before?

$35

1 lesson

30 mins each