Marc P.
- Camp Meeker, CA 95419 ( 25.1 mi )
- Reading Tutor
- Male
- Member Since: 03/2010
- Will travel up to 20 miles
- Rates from $46.00 to $50.00 /hr
- I am a Certified Teacher
- Also Tutors: Writing, Reading Comprehension, Poetry, Literature, Grammar, Creative Writing, Composition
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I was a community college English teacher for 12 years at Vista Community College in Berkeley, CA (now Berkeley City College). I taught in a special program tailored to working adults who had returned to school in order to earn their Associate of Arts degrees. This was not an academically confident population. They required enormous encouragement, personal attention, and coaching. I was very successful in this position because I was willing to talk with students on the phone, meet with them after class, and even respond to their essays at length on cassette tapes--my own idea!
My approach to teaching is to provide what is needed, and sometimes that is not limited to the explicit task at hand. As an English teacher/tutor, I have often found that, rather than merely showing students how to recognize a complete sentence and use correct punctuation and grammar, the more important thing ... read more