Elana
Certified Tutor
I'm a recent college graduate with a B.A. in Politics. In college, I worked as a Writing Center Tutor for three years, where I helped college students develop their writing projects across the social sciences in humanities. As a Writing Tutor, I coached students through all steps of the writing process, from developing a research paper and crafting a thesis statement, to editing for clarity and grammar. After graduating, I lived overseas for a year where I worked as an ESL teacher. I worked in elementary school classrooms and developed lesson plans where students practiced English in an interactive environment to improve their conversational speaking and listening skills.
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Undergraduate Degree:Whitman College- Bachelors, Politics
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- Adult Literacy
- American Literature
- College English
- College Level American Literature
- Elementary School Reading
- Elementary School Writing
- English
- English Grammar and Syntax
- ESL/ELL
- Essay Editing
- High School English
- High School Level American Literature
- High School Writing
- Middle School Reading
- Middle School Reading Comprehension
- Middle School Writing
- Philosophical Ethics
- Phonics
- Social Sciences
- Social Studies
- World Religions
- Writing
What is your teaching philosophy?
By working as a tutor, I have learned the difference between teaching and lecturing. My goal as a tutor is to understand what challenges a student faces in order to guide them through their projects by fostering study skills. I aim to coach students so that they can navigate their coursework and exams with mastery without a tutor.