Chess Tutors & Teachers for Lessons, Instruction or Help in Austin, TX

Whether you prefer in-person or online lessons I will work with your schedule to meet your needs. The best way to improve is to regularly play rated games, analyze the games with a strong player, and learn from the books and videos that are well-matched to your skill level. I provide advice on all these resources and have teaching materials prepared if you are interested in spending some time on them. I'm a patient and experienced chess teacher with 8 years of experience teaching children and adults. My teaching approach is practical and fun. We look at the chess games that you've played, and I teach the fundamentals of chess strategy and tactics based on these games. I have more than twenty years of tournament experience, and I was awarded the title of First Category player by the United States Chess Federation, along with a rating of 2050 (Expert). I have tournament wins against

$ 35.00

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I am a former newspaper writer/editor having worked in the journalism business for 18 years. I worked as a sports writer for the first half of my journalism career, having covered the Dallas Cowboys and Dallas Mavericks. I interviewed professional athletes, coaches, and league officials to find out what was going on with the team and I attended home and away games and wrote about what happened. Later, I became a news writer/editor, covering crime, politics, and education. Currently, I am in PR, writing press releases for a major Texas state agency.

$ 27.50

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for fun I am a Graphic Designer real life Experience - Corporate, Freelance, & Think Tank Experience. I have been working in Adobe since high school. I work in Adobe CS5.5, MAC/PC, Photoshop & Dreamweaver are currently my passion. I am very familiar with the Adobe Suite. I have some InDesign experience. I love well-designed, functional, pretty things that make you stop & think or chuckle or want to buy something. I love what design does for products, services, and life in general. We are surrounded by art all the time. Why shouldn’t it look awesome? I went to Texas State, through the Visual Communication Design program and learned the fundamentals of Design. They taught of the masters of graphic design and why they were important. There were classes in Art Direction, Typography, Art History, Printmaking, Photography, and Illustration just to name a small few core classes. It is a

$ 42.50

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First Category in Chess. Good experience in Chess theory and practice. Teach and tutor Chess Make my students interested and willingly working, always finding possibilities for them to do their own research. Develop in my students abilities to think, to research, to solve problems, to make decisions. I’m a researcher, a PhD in Mathematics, Physics, Statistics, Research, Computer Science, have 71 scientific publications. Have a lot of applications. Developed and successfully implemented in Government projects new methods of statistical prediction, working even for chaotic or random data. Teach at Universities and Colleges 30 years, at High School 6 years. Make my students interested and willingly working, always finding possibilities for them to do their own research. Was Dept Head at Institute for Theoretical & Experimental Physics (ITEP), Moscow, Russia, and Chair at University of Phoen

$ 40.00

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I have played chess for 15 years recreationally, and truly enjoy the game. I have experience in English, advanced reading and writing skills due to Advanced Placement classes I took in high school. I have 15 years experience in playing chess recreationally and joined various chess clubs in school. I worked as a tutor/teaching assistant at Kumon Math & Reading Center, tutoring children ages 4-14. I also spent time as a freelance proofreader and beta reader for a website, Agent Query connect for aspiring authors.

$ 30.00

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My teaching style is to do whatever works, and to get it done. I pride myself on working with my students on their level and being able to understand their personal barrier to grasping the material. I am very conscious of not imposing upon them the way it "should be done". The way it should be done is whatever way makes sense to them and as a tutor, I work hard to find this "way". I have developed the patience to work with students at their pace and to also challenge them to expand their boundaries. Ultimately, patience and persistence are what can be used to summarize my teaching style. I have been tutoring since 2006 and have covered a broad range of subjects during my time. My tutoring experience ranges from helping elementary students prepare for private school entrance exams to tutoring college students in math, english, economics, and history and everything in between. I hav

$ 41.50

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I enjoy working with children of all ages, but particularly excel with more mature students trying to tackle more difficult subject matter. One of my greatest strengths is helping people understand abstract, technical material by simplifying the concepts and using analogies that the student can relate to. Often times we create a barrier because something seems like it should be hard. I make it my goal to break through that barrier by reducing the subject matter to ideas to which the student can relate. There is nothing quite like witnessing an “A-ha!” moment as someone conquers a fearful concept. I have always had an interest in math and science, and I got my start tutoring in high school by helping fellow classmates and friends in these subjects. I went on to earn my BS in Mechanical Engineering from U.T. Austin. I have also spent much of my life in the world of music and began te

$ 37.50

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While in college (1988-1994), I worked as a grader in the math department, with a goal of providing useful feedback to the students. I also began working as a tutor at Austin Community College (ACC) in their free learning labs at this time. I have worked at ACC for about 10 years, tutoring math classes from basic math through calculus, differential equations, linear algebra, discrete math and probability. I also tutor physics, chemistry, statistics and writing. I have done some classroom teaching of the lower level math classes, but, as I do not have a master's degree, I cannot, by law, formally teach the upper level classes, though I would like to, and though I have been used as a substitute teacher on occasion for these classes. My goal when working with students is to fully describe the steps necessary to solving various classes of problems, often in an outline form, for it is

$ 39.50

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I have worked with adults. I prefer a one on one direct instruction and mentoring, keeping everything simple and fun. I am not sure how well I would be with children; I have none of my own and have not spent much time with my nephews and nieces. I have worked with a few of my friends children, helping them understand algebra, showing them how simple it really is and how it can be fun. As a engineer I have been training operators in everything form SPC to troubleshooting for 30 years. I am a volunteer tutor for Adult ESL & GED for the Literacy Council of Williamson County since June 2009.

$ 38.00

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