117 Altoona Tutors

I am a senior in college graduating May 18, 2013. I will have a Middle Level Language Arts degree, qualifying me to teach grades 4-8. I am specialized in English. I have student taught in 3 different placements, 8th grade science, 5th grade English, and 7th/8th grade English. Along with my experience in the classroom, I have also tutored many students... read more

...As every person is different, I will evaluate your needs during the first session, or preferably in a pre-assessment questionnaire (in emails/telephone exchanges before meet-up) to pinpoint your style of learning and needs; that is to say, what kind of learner are you (visual, audio, rule-oriented), and what is your background/level and learning... read more

...I worked in both of these classrooms in either one-on-one situations or in group settings as per their IEP's goals. For three summers, I taught at Penn State to high school students the art of graphic design. We used basic HTML to build beginner webpages with additional lessons on editing photos, safe browsing and blogging. I took and passed my... read more

...While working on a PhD in Health Policy, I worked with my mentor editing his potential publications. In addition, I teach online master's degree nursing students and grade submitted assignments for content and grammar. While editing and grading papers for content and grammar, spelling words correctly is something that I am constatnly aware of and... read more

...I knew that going abroad would allow me to use my passive vocabulary (which was pretty good) actively, and without translating everything back and forth in my mind ... Since then I've improved my English through additional stays in the USA and England in the 1990s, and while living in Central-PA since 1998. In 1993, while studying in Sheffield,... read more