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Katelyn: Palatine tutor
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...babysitter, a camp counselor and finally a teaching assistant and then teacher. I have experience working with children from the ages of four through grade 5. I have spent time teaching AIS math and am well-versed in Teacher's College Reading and Writing workshop. I have worked with children of all ability levels and with a...
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Bachelors, Child Study
Masters, Literacy and Cognition
Julie: Palatine tutor
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...as well as, preparation for entrance exams and grade level exams. I love History and ELA. I love to learn it, as well as, teach it. I am constantly reading and trying to learn something new. I try to tailor all of my tutoring sessions to each of my students. I spend time getting to...
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Bachelors, History/Secondary Education
Masters, Early Childhood Education
Joe: Palatine tutor
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...through volunteer activities or employment. For the last 10 years I have volunteered at the Islip Fire Department, where helping others in my community has been a tremendously rewarding experience. During my previous career in the banking industry, I taught people how to make a budget for their expenses and become financially literate. I worked...
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Bachelors, Math, Secondary Education
Melissa: Palatine tutor
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...Creative Writing where I will continue to pursue my hopes of becoming an author. For the past seven years, I have tutored students for the ELA Regents Exam, PSAT, SAT, ACT, SHSAT, 7th NYS ELA Exam and the Mark Twain Entrance Exam. I specialize in critical reading, vocabulary, grammar, and writing, and believe that my...
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Bachelors, Secondary Education
Master of Fine Arts, Creative Writing
Jason: Palatine tutor
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...and general education, I have had the pleasure of helping students achieve their academic goals in reading, writing, mathematics, and science at the elementary and middle school level. I also have experience tutoring students in SAT/ACT test preparation in all associated sections. I am and always have been a lifetime learner and do all I...
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Bachelors, Education
Masters, Business Administration and Management
Nicholas: Palatine tutor
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...St. Joseph's college. I have been tutoring for 4 years for Eastern Suffolk BOCES in a migrant program. My favorite subject to teach or tutor is history. I enjoy learning about different cultures and their history. In my spare time I go to the gym and play basketball. I enjoy watching sports with friends and...
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Bachelors, History- Secondary Education
Lauren: Palatine tutor
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I believe that all students should be given the opportunities they deserve to advance in their education ... All students have the potential to learn; they need only find the right method.... Discuss their interests, what motivates them, and their goals. What do they want to get out of tutoring?... Guide them through questions without telling them the answer, gradually removing supports with each practice until they are able to complete the task on their own.
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Bachelors, History
Dana: Palatine tutor
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...General Education and Special Education students Birth through 6th grade in 2006. I then went to Dowling College in New York and received my Master's Degree in Literacy Birth through 6th grade in 2009. I have taught in Queens, New York and now live in North Carolina, where I teach. I have been teaching in...
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Bachelor in Arts, Elementary School Teaching
Bachelor in Arts, Early Childhood Special Education
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Recent Palatine Tutoring Session Notes
The student and I went through several integral topics from some of her previous assignments and quizzes including finding the area under a curve and differential equations. She is doing well solving definite integrals and we talked about some ways to determine which technique is needed to solve some of the more complicated integrals. We also went over how to solve for the constants in a function after taking the integral or solving the differential equation. The student's class recently took a practice AP exam and she will be asking her teacher if she can see which topics or questions she got wrong. If her teacher is unable to let her see her practice test, she will take one of the practice exams from her study guide and we will go over it during our next session.
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Today we worked on lesson 86 and 87. This included unit multipliers, finding surface area, lateral area, volume, and solving single and multi variable problems. We also did work with percentages and simplifying expressions. The student seems to have issues doing the reverse operation when solving equations, specifically when adding and subtracting constants. We did a few extra problems of this type to get a better understanding of it. She does fine with multiplying and dividing, but the addition and subtraction seems to throw her off a bit.
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The student finished her summer review packet. We focused on precalculus, domain and range, asymptotes, and graphing. We learned more about polar and parametric equations and spent time finding all of the solution to trig problems.
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Today we covered plotting numbers on a number line and graphing sets. The student was struggling most with compound inequalities, but after a few practice problems she understood them. She was focused and ready to learn. I advised her to copy the definitions from that section onto her notebook to study later. Her homework was the remaining problems from "extra practice." I will have her take a comprehension test next Thursday to see her progress.
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During this session we continued working on the student's packets. It went well; we focused on expanding and simplifying equations by using the various properties (associative, commutative, inverses, etc.). She is picking up the topics very quickly. She is very quick and I can see she is getting more and more comfortable with the material.
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SPECIFIC CONCEPTS: 1) Passage Reading: focus on the 1st or last sentence of each paragraph, words that indicate direction of the argument, summarize in a short phrase. 2) Selecting correct answer: general questions vs. specific questions, skimming for the keyword, finding context by reading above and below a line reference. For inference questions, eliminating choices that make too great an inference.
STRATEGIES/SKILLS: Correct answers on the GMAT must be bullet proof. Limit yourself to 120 seconds.
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