Tutor in American Fork, Utah

Besides various volunteer teaching going back to 1999, I started tutoring one-on-one for pay in 2005. Mostly I've done this with middle and high school students, some of whom struggled seriously with their grades. I hold a Master's Degree in Library and Information Science from the University of Pittsburgh (2006), a Bachelor's in Linguistics with a Spanish minor from BYU (2001), and I read like Hermione Granger. Before moving back to my home in Utah I lived in Idaho, where I worked for a school district. Though not a teacher, I acted as a guerrilla educator, taking opportunities to interact with and teach young people throughout the K-12 range. This included volunteer Spanish instruction for grades 3-5 during my lunch hours; and history, percussion and calligraphy lessons at the Blackfoot Community Center in my spare time. School librarians and volunteer coordinators repeatedly asked me to come read to children at special events. My empathy and respect for the youth of the district gained me their trust and respect in turn. I am often told that I should be a teacher because I have such a good connection with the kids, even the difficult ones. I hear this from adults and youth alike. I'll never forget the face of one young man during one of my visits to a high school detention room, as I engaged him and his friends in conversation about digital media. You could see the light turn on in his head. “What am I witnessing here?” he said. He was witnessing what happens when an adult keeps close his memories of half a life away, to reach out to those still going through that time. He was witnessing a heart of rare empathy armed with a mind of (I don't like to brag, but) remarkable intellect. He was witnessing the gifts I would bring to my interactions with your child. ***Please contact me through internal message or email. I prefer to take payments in cash after each session.