My Tutoring Experience Essay

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"Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world."
--Malala Yousafzai

I entered the tutoring profession inspired by the light of that quote. That light led me through five years of tutoring high school students in San Francisco, CA and Atlanta, GA. I teach the English, Reading, and Writing on the SAT/ACT and high school literature. Subsequently, I am passionate about the written word. As an owner of a tutor company, my experience with educating students comes from walking on the road less traveled. I didn’t start out as a teacher. I was a seasoned journalist who tutored part-time. However, my side job of tutoring students ignited such a fire in me that I quit my writing career and turned into

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