Award-Winning ACT Reading Tutors in Washington DC

...guidance, and nourishment in order to best grow into the person they desire to be. It takes time to better yourself. Starting something new is usually difficult or easy for some, but continuing to do something that proves to be hard and discouraging is one of the hardest things to do in life. I wish to help instill a "never say die" attitude by aiding you in the skills I love that you wish to...

...opportunity to engage in a dialogue not only about the field of Psychology in general, but about Industrial and Organizational Psychology and its contributions to the community at large. Learning is a continuous process. Now, organizations are taking it upon themselves to consistently train employees in order to maintain a strategic edge. Learning, however, is not a passive process. Engagement, learner control, learning orientation, situational and individual differences all play a strategic role in the...

I am a 3rd Year Medical University Student at Howard University. I have 7+ years of tutoring biology, chemistry, math, pre-medical, and medical subjects. I have tutored at middle/high school, university, and medical school levels.

...them discover strengths they didn’t know they had. Over the past decade, I have taught over a thousand students in 9th, 10th, 11th, and 12th grade. I’ve worked with talented students at the top on their class and high school students who read at the 3rd grade level. My favorite genre of literature is American Lit—To Kill a Mockingbird is my all-time favorite novel. I aim to be more and more like Atticus Finch every...

BS Math Minors Finance and Industrial Engineering Have been tutoring professionally for over 3 years now

...Arts Candidate in History and Political Science at George Washington University. I have spent every year of college tutoring and have worked with a broad variety of students. I have worked ESL students, I have worked with struggling students enrolled at charter schools, and I have worked with students at top-notch public schools. While I tutor in a broad range of subjects, I am most passionate about History, Political Science, and English. In my experience,...

...have tutored and counseled have gone on to receive admissions offers from the University of Chicago, University of Pennsylvania, Cornell, UVA, Johns Hopkins, Carnegie Mellon, Boston College, NYU, UCLA, William and Mary, Amherst, Williams, Emory, University of Maryland at College Park - among others. After living in several cities both in the U.S. and abroad, I recently relocated to the Atlanta area. I graduated from Princeton University in 2005 and worked in the fine arts...

...of Washington University in St. Louis with a BA in Mathematics and a minor in Computer Science. I have always excelled and enjoyed math, but I know that many students struggle in this area. This is why I like to tutor students in math, to show that it is doable and something they can excel at too! My favorite areas to teach are Arithmetic, Pre-Algebra, Algebra, and Calculus, but am happy to teach most math...

A recipient of a doctorate in history and a high school history teacher for the past six years, I enjoy working with students who wish to improve their academic skills in a variety of subjects.

...learning and processing information, so it is important for them to develop their own studying habits and learning methods. That is why I want to be a tutor - so that I can help students discover their ideal way of learning. I am a determined and dedicated student that wants to help others. I have experience tutoring and working with students that are struggling to grasp difficult material and concepts. I am a social and...

...the University of Colorado and the University of York. I received my Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology and my Master of Arts in Applied Linguistics. I have travelled extensively and lived abroad for many years. My teaching experiences include adults and children online in Japan; children in person in Samoa as part of my U.S. Peace Corps service; adults while living in China and children again living in the U.S. I am most passionate about...

...when an assignment or learning strategy has fallen short of the mark and when traditional teaching methods have to be reassessed and reformulated. A 'good teacher' grows with his or her students and all parties leave the classroom as more highly skilled learners and teachers than they were when they arrived. First and foremost, my students come to the classroom to learn, in whatever form learning may take. I remind my students that this is...

I am nationally registered emergency medical technician and an undergraduate neuroscience major at Johns Hopkins university. I have previously tutored the subjects of geometry and pre-calculus to high school students but am open to working with younger students in math and science. I can also tutor SAT prep and ACT prep. I am a national merit finalist. I currently work in a laboratory at Johns Hopkins researching development and gene-environment interactions.

...connect with each student in a different way. In the STEM courses, the concepts can be very challenging and complex. My teaching philosophy is to simplify these concepts by relating them to every-day experiences. I've found that when students can understand these concepts through real life examples and applications, they become much easier to understand. Science can be hard, there are a lot of details that can make students (and myself!) feel overwhelmed. However, there...

...degree in Mechanical Engineering and Design at Northeastern University. My academic background has given me a strong foundation in physics, chemistry, biology, and mathematics, which I love sharing with students. I've worked with learners of all agesfrom helping elementary schoolers build study skills to tutoring high school students in STEM subjects and languages like French and German. While I tutor a variety of subjects, I am especially passionate about math and physics because I enjoy...

...working with Varsity Tutoring. Teaching has always been a passion of mine. From TAing as an undergraduate, to coaching ultimate frisbee at the college level, to simply working with classmates to help them understand tough material, I appreciate working with other people to help them achieve their goals. I am working as a tutor part-time while I prepare to enter a masters degree program in Urban Planning at UCLA in the fall of 2016. I...

...for my students and want them to reach their full potential. In addition to helping students with specific subjects, I also like to teach them to become more independent by showing them them proper study habits and organizational and time management skills. I think the use of technology is a critical component of education today, and try to incorporate it in to my classes. I also believe that students should enjoy class so I plan...

...candidate at American University, studying Creative Writing with a concentration in Fiction. I earned my bachelor's degree from Dickinson College in 2021, where I majored in English and minored in Creative Writing and Italian. I tutor any subject related to reading or writing in the English language -- particularly the SAT Verbal and Writing sections, and the ACT English and Reading sections. I specialize in test prep, but am open to tutoring a broad range...

...96th percentile for verbal reasoning; the 98th percentile for analytical writing; and the 73rd percentile for quantitative reasoning. I look forward to sharing my many tips for achieving high test scores, including strategies for time management and stress reduction, in addition to practicing the skills and problems that occur most often on the GRE. I graduated with honors in History and German Studies from Wesleyan University in 2014. Since then, I have lived and worked...

...interactive lessons. I found the most success when I implemented exercises that connected ideas to the real world, like writing a letter to a congressperson. Additionally, I spent three years as an associate editor for the Harvard Crimson newspaper, a position that granted me experience both writing and editing articles as well as mentoring freshman writers one-on-one. I spent hours every week in the dining hall working with writers to copyedit both reported pieces and...