Hello! My name is Mateo. I am a first-year graduate student at UMass pursuing a degree in Agriculture. I love people and spend most of my free time serving others; I volunteer often and lead a minority student organization. I have experience providing care for children of all ages, and have spent some of my undergraduate years...
I have training as an ESOL tutor, as well as peer tutoring experience from high school and college. I can provide help with any of my four languages (French, Italian, Spanish, and English), as well as arithmetic and algebra, statistics, psychology, biology, and history/social studies. I also have years of theater and acting...
I love helping younger students find their confidence in math and science. I am going back to school myself for physical therapy, and am studying science myself at the moment, although my background is in English from college.
I gained most of my tutoring experience when I volunteered as a tutor in high school, helping middle school students to complete their homework. I also have worked as a TA in an Introductory Biology class at UMass, so I have experience helping students understand more advanced material as well.
At school I work as a tutor in Umass Amherst's Writing Center. I work with students on their individual needs and cater them wherever they are in the writing process and where they are in their level and understanding of writing. I also have experience working with students whose primary language is not English.
I've tutored many students for years, either my age or younger. My specialties include math, foreign language (French), science, and others.
I graduated from UMass Amherst with a BS in Nutrition and Dietetics, and a minor in French. My major was heavily biology, chemistry (organic, biochemistry, etc) and Kinesiology focused....