Oxford Educated High School English Tutor

Scott C.

During my undergraduate education at Biola University, I was a member of the Torrey Honors College great books program. This program specialized in Socratic seminars, developing critical thinking and writing skills. This afforded me an opportunity to study abroad at Oxford university for a year, furthering my critical thinking skills with one on one tutorials. As such, I have served as the English Department Chair at a High School for over 15 years.

This background gives me a unique perspective and approach that sets me apart from most teachers and tutors. I focus on developing critical thinking in my students, which improves their writing content and style. I have a three step approach that will quickly and significantly improve student writing at the honors and AP level, leading to improved grades and significantly improved passage rate on AP tests. I currently teach AP Literature and took over the AP class at a low income, high English learner population school five years ago. In the first year of teaching it, the passage rate at our school went from an average of about 15% to 72%. I have had a 60% success rate at getting students who are not taking an AP Language class to pass the AP Language test.

While, I can offer help to honors and AP students, I also teach struggling English 1 students who need help developing basic reading and writing skills. I can help improve student grades at all high school grade levels and all skill levels. I understand the struggles students have in English classes and have strategies to help all students. My goal is to help struggling students read and write at grade level regardless of current skills and abilities.