Simon C.
- Fort Collins, CO 80525 ( 27.1 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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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 can be in helping you persuade, inform, and move readers. There is strength in a good writer, and the greatest lesson I learned was that you are not born a great writer. We expect perfection the first time, and when it is not perfect we lose hope—and that is a fallacy. Good writing is hard work, revising, editing, and sets of eyes other than your own. During the last three years I have been helping students understand this in the classroom.
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 ... read more