Award-Winning AP US History Tutors serving Yonkers, NY

I am a rising Senior at Williams College where I major in History and Political Science with a certificate in Arabic. Having learned Spanish, Arabic and Korean from scratch, I am a major proponent of learning new languages and enjoy helping others on their language journeys. I am also an avid chess player, and love to introduce others to the game.

...of Entertainment, Media, and Technology, as well as Spanish. I live and breathe communication--I love reading and writing, and promoting literacy and furthering comprehension skills is one of my biggest interests in education today. In the past, I have worked as a tutor in high school for middle school students. I would help them with end-of-grade test prep, and other daily homework assignments for pay. In my first two years of college, I was a...

...and poetry have been recognized by The Chimaerid (Best Poetry), the Columbia Scholastic Press Association (Certificate of Merit), and the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards (Honorable Mentions, multiple years), among others. My work has been featured in dozens of newspapers, books, and magazines with a total readership of over one million. This deep personal connection to writing allows me to help students not just master technical skills but also develop their own voice and confidence...

...level; Elementary, Middle, and High School. College, Graduate School, and Adult Learners. I believe everyone has it in them to succeed and I will not give up when things get difficult. It is my goal to help students not only achieve success but to enjoy themselves while they get there. I am passionate about sharing my love for history with others and seek to illustrate that history is not a dead thing, that it is...

Hello! I am a sophomore at the United States Military Academy and am looking forward to helping students on Varsity Tutors. I attribute much of my previous academic success to the tutoring I received from others, so I'm excited to pay it forward by helping other aspiring students achieve their goals.

...and can tutor elementary, middle, and high school math along with any Calculus course. I have also had experience tutoring middle school ELA and feel confident in tutoring elementary school, high school and college ELA, reading, and writing as well. Though I tutor a wide array of topics, I love tutoring math especially because it brings me so much joy when a student finally understands something that can be so difficult and I can see...

...be created. Through the inspiration of languages before it, English offers us an advanced understanding of our history, and propels us toward our future. In my approach to tutoring, I enjoy learning about the individual; not only the student. In order to understand the educational needs of each student, I must first understand each person. I enjoy using culturally relevant pedagogy to ensure that my enrichment is useful and can be applied to daily education....

...a B.A. in Political Science from Michigan State University. Since high school, I have been involved with several mentoring, tutoring, and youth development groups, programs, and initiatives. My experience with students ranges from preschool to professional school. My favorite subjects are literacy, reading comprehension, and writing. I believe that every person has the capacity to learn and improve in every subject area if they embrace their unique learning style and approach new material with determination...

...secondary gifted and talented. I have an average NYS Regents Exam pass rate of 90% and have demonstrated great success remediating the literacy deficits and enduring understandings of high needs students and students with disabilities. I have been trained in the Orton Gillingham Multisensory approach to literacy instruction intended for use with persons who have difficulty with reading, spelling, and writing of the sort associated with dyslexia. Furthermore, I have a wealth of experience tutoring...

...is Altaf Siddiqui, I am currently working at Crescent High School and Huntington Learning Center, with seven six years of teaching/tutoring experience. I believe what makes a great educator is one's passion for their subject area and a motivation to pass on your knowledge to another individual, of course result matters. I am certified by the State of New York to teach 6-12 Social Sciences and humanities, I also have extensive experience teaching ELL/ESL students,...

...I found a tutor who helped me reach my full potential and absolutely rock the test. Since then, I have not been intimidated by any exam in University or beyond, including the LSAT. I know I can instill this same confidence in other students by slowly highlighting insight into testing methodologies. By the end of our prep, your student will be able to use the strategies on any academic study in his or her future.

...literature to encourage focused research. I couple this with contextual information. Again, if a student can learn the greater importance of an event or of an author's main argument and styles, they learn more than basic information to repeat in a test: they begin to master the information and use it to approach new material with greater preparedness. I always want the learner's outcome to be a compoundable skill. For students learning to read and...

...experience in New York, tutoring middle school and high school students in Mathematics (K-12), SAT, PSAT, AP Exams (US History, World History, Environmental Science, Spanish, English Language). I am a very easygoing and patient person, and I understand that students need to learn their own way. I rarely give out the answers to problems, instead helping student think by themselves by giving clues or follow up questions. I am very passionate about my work, and...

...Society @ NYC (Acceptance Rate: 10%) just to name a few. At only 14 years old, I started tutoring/teaching as a volunteer at MakerState LLC, where I found joy in teaching STEM subjects through hands-on projects and interactive tools. Even though I had years of experience playing competitive 2035 USCF Ranked level Chess during middle and high school, I was drawn to STEM education At MakerState (a private STEM instruction institution), where I started as...

...Health Studies. I enjoy tutoring history, reading, writing and language arts, but I am most passionate about helping students of all ages realize their academic goals in any subject! Because of my experience in the professional writing field, I am an excellent writing, language arts, and reading resource for students. I have high achievements in academic history, and have developed superb study methods to aid memorization and concept understanding. I have a very hands-on, personal...

...into two Ivy League universities). Recommendations from prior clients available upon request. I tutor partially because I plan to teach professionally - I'm someone who is ultimately going to venture into academia, so it is something of a preparation for my future career. I also love tutoring for its own sake: for me, it is a genuine joy to help a student develop their cognitive and creative capacities. The ultimate goal of all my tutoring...

As an educator for 16 years, I believe every student can succeed. With a good grasp of New York State's Social Studies curriculum and a believer that one learns by developing life-learning skills, any test can be passed and mastered!

...I also completed the Education Program and received certification as a Middle and High School Social Studies Teacher. After graduating, I received a Fulbright Scholarship to teach English in a Korean Middle School for one year and then spent three years teaching social studies at a top high school in New York City. I left teaching and received a Master of Public Policy with a focus on education policy from Georgetown University. I then pursued...

...is Hailey Seltzer and I am a sophomore in Brown University's BS/MD program. I am concentrating in Biology and Spanish and have a lot of experience with tutoring from both high school and college. I have tutored Spanish for 5 years and was in my high school's honors society in which we tutored freshman and sophomores in a variety of subjects. I currently tutor at high schools in Providence and aid students with college applications.

...committed to completing my teachers exam certifications. I have 14 years of experience in the education field, with 3 and half years of lead teaching experience. I have taught different academic subjects; science, social studies, writing , math and close reading comprehension. While I have taught different subjects, I am most passionate about tutoring social studies/ history and writing. In my experience I've worked with students struggling with various academic subjects; test preparation, and written...