Steve - History tutor - Calgary
Steve - History tutor - Calgary

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  • History
  • General knowledge
  • Social science
  • Geohistory

Certified teacher offering support in history, math, and English Language Arts to primary, middle, and high school students online or in Calgary.

  • History
  • General knowledge
  • Social science
  • Geohistory

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About Steve

I am a certified teacher with Alberta Education, and I have been teaching for 10 years. I have an undergraduate degree in history and english, and a minor in mathematics. I have tutored students from grade 4 to grade 12 for 8 years. I also owned a tutoring business for 3 years that focused on tutoring students in a variety of subjects.

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    Advanced Technical Certificate

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  • English

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English

As a teacher, I believe in mixing up my teaching based on the material and students, rather than trying to fit the material into the same pedagogical box. Some classes are better taught focused on a discussion of a single quotation. Others work best by putting five or six authors in conversation with one another. Others thrive when an image, or a series of images, is the focal point of the conversation. In each class, at the very least, I try to engage students in a variety of ways, with visuals, sounds, and words. However, I also believe that less can be more. Each class I lead has a particular goal, and each discussion is the result of careful preparation. I don’t want my students to leave class with their heads spinning from overstimulation. I want them to engage the material at hand, and to leave each class with some concrete understanding. So I also try to end each class with five minutes of summation. Sometimes I recap for the students and leave them with three “thoughts of the day.” Other times, I ask them to take a moment and write down three things they learned and one question they have.
I like to make connections. I use images and sounds as well as words and concepts and timelines. I try to push my students to see history as full of chaos and contingency, full of 'whats' and 'hows' and 'whys', full of people and events and institutions. I use a wide variety of sources and address multiple concepts.

Teaching english and history for me, then, hinges on the balance between teaching content and teaching skills. The two, of course, are related: English and historical inquiry involves the ability not only to grasp a certain amount of information, but also to classify, organize, and analyze it and then to convey one’s conclusion in clear prose. I model this process for students, and I challenge them to do this in discussions. I especially work with them on cultivating this process in their writing. Precise writing is invaluable but difficult, and so I get students to engage in a variety of meaningful and applicable activities that develop skills in writing.

I like to help students learn how to sift and analyze the mass of information from the internet and social media accounts for themselves so that they can check for any biases, reliability, and accuracy in primary and secondary sources.

Lastly, I address each student where they are at in terms of area(s) of need. Each person has a unique style of learning, and I gear tutoring lessons to meet each individual's method of learning.

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  • $14

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  • 5h: $68
  • 10h: $132

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  • $14/h

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levels

Elementary School

Middle School

Sophomore

Advanced Technical Certificate

College / University

Adult Education

Masters

MBA

Kindergarten

All languages in which the lesson is available

English

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