I am a recent graduate from Lake Forest College in International Relations and French, with a minor in Spanish. I began teaching in Paris in 2013 as an English-language assistant for children ages 3 through 11. In some classes I assisted the teacher and in others I independently designed and executed lesson plans. I also peer-tutored in French as a college student. I greatly value my experiences teaching others and I look forward to continuing this mutually educational opportunity with families of Varsity Tutors.

Are you looking for someone to help tailor a plan specific to your learning style? As a one-on-one tutor who has worked with visual, kinesthetic, auditory, conceptual and mixed-type learners, it is my mission to provide you an individualized approach to meet your learning needs. I will work with you to understand your learning goals clearly, and maximize our time together in sessions.My favorite subjects to teach are Spanish and graduate-level coursework for healthcare professional careers (anatomy, physiology, neuroanatomy). I love working with adult learners, and have extensive experience teaching high schoolers as well.As a Chicago native, my background includes rocking the AP Spanish test in high school, graduating college with a major in Chemistry and Spanish minor, living abroad and fine-tuning my Spanish in Central America for 2 years, and graduating from medical school in 2020!I look forward to meeting and working with you soon! Let the learning begin.

Physics major graduate and rugby team captain looking to work with students to help them learn and grow as people. Each student is different and I strive to help everyone achieve their highest potential.

I am a graduate of Lake Forest College, a liberal arts college in Lake Forest, IL. I received my Bachelor of Arts in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology because I really enjoy the intersection of biology and chemistry. I started tutoring at home since I have two younger sisters and they struggled with math and science; I helped them improve their understanding, do better in their classes, and get higher grades! In college, I started to tutor informally by helping my classmates understand material in biology, biochemistry, and chemistry. Later, I was hired as a tutor for the Organic Chemistry I and II courses at my college. Although I help with a variety of natural science subjects, I love Organic Chemistry, Biology (particularly anything related to genetics), and Biochemistry. I have a lot of fun with my students in trying to help them see how science applies to our daily lives, so they are not just learning material for their exams and then completely forgetting it afterwards. I'm a first-generation college student so I am a firm proponent of education and lifelong learning so I try to help my students become independent learners so that they can continue to improve even when I'm not there. Apart from tutoring, I also work in a scientific lab where we study the effects of traumatic brain injury in fruit flies, which I thoroughly enjoy. In my spare time, I like to sing, play guitar and piano, do sudoku puzzles, play soccer, and watch TV shows/movies. I am also a huge Spider-Man fan, which is why I wanted to become a scientist in the first place, and I am excited to help others do the same!

Hello, I am Emily. I have my Masters in Teaching with almost a decade in teaching and tutoring experience. My philosophy is to build confidence and skills through questioning techniques, protocols, and learner input. I look forward to working with you. Book a session with me to learn more.

I am a student at Lake Forest College pursuing my degree in Biology. This semester I am also attending the School of the Art Institute to complete my minor in Visual Arts. Having this diverse educational background, I am able to assist students in multiple subject areas. I have had experience tutoring elementary aged students especially in reading and mathematics. I have also helped both high school and middle school students with areas they struggle in. I love to assist and encourage students to comprehend subjects that they need extra help in.I am originally from Wisconsin; home of the Packers and Badgers. Photography, running, skiing, coffee, and seeking adventure are my passions.

Professionally, I aspire to be an established teacher in a classroom highly enjoying every new group of students for which I will responsibly educate. I aspire for as much teaching and instructional experience in the different fields of social studies so that I can I identify my academic strengths and areas to strengthen. I find it extremely valuable to be a reflective practitioner. My consistent reflection has helped me determine the path of my Master’s Degree. My teaching and leadership experiences within the Learning Center have inspired me to obtain my Learning Behavior Specialist endorsement within my Master’s in Curriculum and Instruction. Teaching the content through highly effective modeling is another goal I have as an educator in the classroom. By accomplishing this goal in prior experiences, students have met the targets and expectations that I designed and implemented. Working closely with colleagues in the Learning Center remains beneficial because I have been motivated to make the course content as relevant to our students’ lives as possible in order to best engage them in learning activities and assessments.In order to meet my goals, I consistently reflect on how well I designed a lesson or a learning activity that incorporated the elements of critical thinking, problem solving, analyzing and evaluating. I integrate a question that is stated in the form of a problem, which triggers students to critically think and construct an answer throughout the lesson. For me, the impact of student learning is essentially how I can continue to motivate students’ high levels of thinking. My reflection rests on my teaching, student responses and their formative feedback to a lesson. This reflection, however, is driven by effective modeling of what I want my students to master. Throughout my experiences both at the middle school and high-school level, I have learned the significance of building a classroom community in which I model my all of my expectations clearly and concretely. I know the essentialism of clarity and structure for all students, including adolescents, who all have unique learning styles. My experience in the Learning Center has fostered greater ability to develop clearer directions, clearer expectations, and to be able to more strongly model what I wanted my students to learn and to produce in both world history and government.Personally, as a professional, I find it very important to involve myself in some of type of leadership or volunteer role in which I serve the community that allows me to grow, enhance my skill set and present myself as a role model to individuals of similar age. I have tacked this goal by leading a small group of young professionals in Chicago, which meets to discuss a variety of contemporary issues that are relevant to our lives. Through my presence as a leader, I want to be able to cultivate new meaningful relationships and trustworthy friendships. Prior to becoming a leader, I also participated in this group, and I gained strong takeaway value, which motivated me to pursue the next step in leadership development.

I have a Bachelor of Arts in French from Lake Forest College. I completed a semester long study abroad program in Paris, France. I love languages and I'm constantly teaching myself new material each day. I want to share my passion for languages with those who are equally passionate to learn.