Hi, my name is Tony Bivins. I am originally from Miami, Florida,

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but I relocated to Georgia in 2020.

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So I live in the metro Atlanta area. Um,

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while in Florida I attended Florida International University and I

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received my bachelor's in English with a concentration

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in writing and rhetoric, basically professional writing, um,

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writing for a purpose. And I, um,

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was a writing tutor while I attended there. Um,

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so I took the professional course in how to tutor, how to, um,

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best help student writers. So, um,

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from there I became a teacher in 2019,

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that was my first year teaching.

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So the year of the pandemic 20 19, 20 20 was my first year of actually being in

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a classroom. Um, I teach middle grades ela,

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so, um, my concentration is the writing portion.

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So I teach grammar and composition to middle grades,

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and I've been teaching that since I was in,

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since 20 20 19, 20 20. So, um, when I relocated here to Georgia,

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um, I decided that yes, teaching is something that I definitely want to do. So,

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um, I am gaining my certification. I am getting my master's degree,

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um, uh, at University of Georgia. Um, it is a master's,

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it's a master of teaching English education, so all of it, reading and writing,

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so I can help with, um, reading, um, comprehension as well. Um,

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I chose writing to be a writing tutor because it's something that I really,

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really am passionate about and I'm excited to meet you,

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to actually be able to tutor you. So, um, hi.

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