Services

Success in school (and life) is about more than doing well on tests and papers. Bullpen Tutoring offers a holistic approach to developing the good habits that will help you succeed in school now, work later, and life in general. I offer the following services for the specific subjects below.

Study skills  

• Best practices for in-class and out-of-class study time
• Time-management
• Assigning priority to what is most important during the academic year
• Assigning proportionate time to extracurricular or non-academic activities
• Test-taking strategies    
• Review of different test methods and preparation required

Note taking skills

• Cornell Notes

• In-class notes

• Collaborative study

Writing papers

• Research papers

• Persuasive essays

• Expository writing:  compare-and-contrast, cause-and-effect

• Descriptive writing

• Composition:  the elements of writing

• Narrative writing

• Short stories

• Book reports

• Citations

• Bibliography

• Editing

• Revision

• Writing for assessment

High School

• United States history (honors)

• United States history (regular track)

• World history (honors)

• World history (regular track)

• California history (honors)

• California history (regular track)

• Government (honors)

• Government (regular track)

• Economics (regular track)

• S. A. T. preparation (verbal)

• English (vocabulary, writing)

Middle School

• United States history

• Medieval history

• Ancient history

• California history

• English/Language Arts (vocabulary, writing)