Simon C.
- Fort Collins, CO 80525 ( 17.1 mi )
- Poetry Tutor
- Male
- Member Since: 06/2011
- Will travel up to 20 miles
- Rates from $55.00 to $64.00 /hr
- I am a Certified Teacher
- Also Tutors: Writing, Spelling, Reading Comprehension, Reading, Literature, Grammar, Composition
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I absolutely love working with kids. My strength is teaching secondary level students, and I believe as a teacher you must forge a connection to help a student struggling outside of his area of expertise. You establish trust by building relationships, letting them know you care. When that trust is formed between teacher and student, the student will work harder because she believes in you. And writing is hard work. To ask students to organize complicated thoughts, theories, facts, and emotions into clear concise arguments is a daunting task. One that begins with trust. I believe in relationships first, the student must know I care about them individually, and from there we can go great distances.
When I focused on my degree at the University of Northern Colorado, I found a love beyond writing, I fell in love with language, its morphology, and how powerful a simple punched statement ... read more