Why do you want to become a tutor for the UTC? What qualities do you possess that will make you an effective tutor? I want to become a tutor because I greatly enjoyed tutoring both my Junior and Senior years of high school. I have always helped those around me who struggle in class and tutoring is a natural extension of that. Additionally, tutoring is one of the only careers I have had experience in so far making this a familiar job. My best quality for this job is experience. I tutored on a volunteer basis all my Junior and Seniors years in high school. Mostly this was Algebra I, Precalculus, and Calculus AB/BC. I volunteered between 2 and 3 lunch hours every week. Additionally, I was hired by a local family for a semester to tutor their
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I am an Eagle Scout and an active Assistant Scoutmaster with the Boy Scouts of America, what I believe to be the best leadership training program in the US. One serves in several leadership roles to earn this rank. To meet these requirements, I was an Instructor for two years and a Troop Guide for three. Instructors are in charge of groups of one to three Scouts for skills tutoring. The Troop Guide leads the instructors and teaches large group lessons to first years. We had over 25 new Scouts two of the years I was Troop Guide. I developed and ran two Instructor training programs to get our Troop ready for such an influx of new Scouts. Also, I would sometimes meet one on one outside of meetings to help those falling behind keep up with the group or those who wanted to advance faster do so. Scouting gave me hundreds of hours of tutoring experience. It also allowed me to work with all sorts of people. We’ve had Scouts with down syndrome, autism, and ADHD in addition to those who did not come in with a learning attitude every week. I learned to teach them all and find I was very successful at it. Being a Troop Guide was the most satisfying role I had as a Boy Scout. I hope a tutoring position here at NC State will also be personally …show more content…
My personal essay for the Common App was reviewed by two English teachers, a friend, and my parents. Surprisingly, the most blistering comments came from my parents. They said grammatically, my essays were flawless, but I lacked some serious depth. I had to hear how boring and uninspiring my essays were from them. This was tough because my work is usually received better. I always responded with thanks to everyone who helped me and understood that they truly were helping. I had to completely shift tone and style to write a good college essay which took some time. However, I did not blindly alter everything my reviewers suggested. I always heard criticism out, but sometimes had my reasons to keep things as I had. Overall, it was a learning experience and I successful one since I am now a fully enrolled college
I am an Eagle Scout and an active Assistant Scoutmaster with the Boy Scouts of America, what I believe to be the best leadership training program in the US. One serves in several leadership roles to earn this rank. To meet these requirements, I was an Instructor for two years and a Troop Guide for three. Instructors are in charge of groups of one to three Scouts for skills tutoring. The Troop Guide leads the instructors and teaches large group lessons to first years. We had over 25 new Scouts two of the years I was Troop Guide. I developed and ran two Instructor training programs to get our Troop ready for such an influx of new Scouts. Also, I would sometimes meet one on one outside of meetings to help those falling behind keep up with the group or those who wanted to advance faster do so. Scouting gave me hundreds of hours of tutoring experience. It also allowed me to work with all sorts of people. We’ve had Scouts with down syndrome, autism, and ADHD in addition to those who did not come in with a learning attitude every week. I learned to teach them all and find I was very successful at it. Being a Troop Guide was the most satisfying role I had as a Boy Scout. I hope a tutoring position here at NC State will also be personally …show more content…
My personal essay for the Common App was reviewed by two English teachers, a friend, and my parents. Surprisingly, the most blistering comments came from my parents. They said grammatically, my essays were flawless, but I lacked some serious depth. I had to hear how boring and uninspiring my essays were from them. This was tough because my work is usually received better. I always responded with thanks to everyone who helped me and understood that they truly were helping. I had to completely shift tone and style to write a good college essay which took some time. However, I did not blindly alter everything my reviewers suggested. I always heard criticism out, but sometimes had my reasons to keep things as I had. Overall, it was a learning experience and I successful one since I am now a fully enrolled college