Award-Winning College Essays Tutors serving Plainfield, NJ

...Teacher in New York City. I have provided whole and small group reading instruction aligned to the Common Core Standards. Before moving to New York in late 2011, I completed my Master's degree at Boston University in Teaching and Curriculum. Teaching is not only instructional but social, and it is rooted in building relationships. While it is important to be firm, it's equally important to have a relationship with students and parents. My philosophy stems...

...in St. Louis and am pursuing my major in history and minors in political science and psychology. I plan on attending law school after I graduate. I have had extensive experience tutoring students throughout my high school and college careers in subjects ranging from English, History, Hebrew, college essay editing, and Standardized Test Preparation. Helping students is one of the most rewarding experiences I have partaken in, and I often find that I learn just...

...level. In the past, I've worked as a Tutor with first grade students and college students. I can tutor American History, English, Philosophy, Social Sciences, Government, Geography, and Essay Writing. All of these are a passion of mine, although I would say Philosophy and Social Sciences are my strongest. Any student can excel and it is my teaching philosophy that a Teacher or Tutor should adapt to the needs of the student to be more...

...Marshall College. I earned my Bachelor of Arts in Spanish Language and Culture with a minor focus in Anthropology. After graduating I began work with a not-for-profit organization that serves youth 12-years-old and older with developing their social-emotional skills and leadership skills through experiential education at at a 265 acre adventure course facility in New Jersey. I fell in love with the work and philosophy that people, and especially children, learn best by doing. It...

...to research methods. I'm currently faculty at The New School (Parsons School of Design, Eugene Lang College) and CUNY (City College, Queens College), and an Isador Lubin Fellow in the PhD Program at the Milano School of International Affairs, Management, and Urban Policy at The New School. I hold an MS in urban planning from Columbia University and a BA from Sarah Lawrence College. I am a proud native New Yorker and mildly patriotic first-generation...

...second language and helping friends with college essays, I am so excited to be formally tutoring. It will give me a chance to exercise my passion both for education and working with others. In the past as an instructor and research assistant I had to adapt to the needs of struggling students and enjoyed thinking creatively to best serve a variety of learners. Though my résumé goes into detail about my relevant previous experiences, here...

...honors and a B.F.A. in Playwriting. For the past two years, Ive been working as a T.A. for several writing classes at NYU, and its quickly become my favorite job. I love helping students find their writing voices. Ive been developing my own method of guiding the young reader or writer who has just begun discovering what he or she has to say, but has not yet discovered how he or she can say it....

I am a recent medical school graduate excited to spend extra time teaching and tutoring other students. I know how important it was for me to meet the right mentors along the way to college at Yale and to medical school at Stanford, and I would love to help mentor you along your journey, too! My hobbies include: running, take spinning and cardio kickboxing classes, listening to RadioLab and This American Life, and cooking.... Every student...

...a teacher, I believe every student has the right and ability to excel, and I acknowledge that every student learns differently. I always take the time to identify how my students learn best and adapt my teaching methods to meet their needs. I have developed teaching methods for all styles of learners that include kinesthetic activities, cartooning, and guided conversations. I firmly believe that outstanding achievement can, and should be, accessible to all students. Outside...

...to learn how to ask the right questions so that they can navigate the increasingly sophisticated world around them. This belief informs my teaching style; I act as a guide for students rather than someone dispensing information. Nothing is more enjoyable than the look on a student's face when he or she has just realized that he or she can solve a problem without anyone's help. When I'm not tutoring, I love walking through New...

...television shows for Major League Baseball Productions, produced content for activist groups, and programmed for UnionDocs, a microcinema in New York. More recently, I've coordinated and facilitated retreats for emerging adults, focusing on personal growth skills and political education. I tutor a broad range of subjects, but I'm most passionate about English, Literature, and History. I've recently (and successfully) tutored myself in test preparation skills, so I am also very prepared to tutor test-prep. In...

...each student is to try and imbue in them a little of that love in the hopes that it helps them achieve independent academic success. I have tutored extensively in the visual arts, both in fine arts and art history. I welcome opportunities to take students to museums or galleries to experience art first hand. If it is test prep you need, I can help. I have tutored for SATs and ACTs but more importantly...

...anybody, so that's not how I teach. I try to de-mystify the subject from the outset, starting with acknowledging and building on what students already know - usually more than they think. I've studied a lot of languages (Spanish, Latin, French, Turkish, Attic Greek, Ancient Hebrew, and, of course, English) and I've learned that a lot of the principles of communication are universal. If you're reading this, you already know one language, so you've made...

...spring of 2012. I taught health classes to freshman at Bronx public high schools from 2010-2011. I was an assistant violin teacher at the Mind Builders Creative Academy from 2011 to 2014. I am a great tutor because I help students break down complicated and difficult assignments into manageable tasks and goals. I am committed to helping students fully comprehend and understand the information they need to learn. This is because I believe students perform...

...learning. I hold an M.A. from the American University's School of International Service in International Communications and a B.A. in Comparative Literature from the University of California at Irvine. I have approximately three years of teaching experience, completed at the College of New Rochelle and have tutored students as a volunteer in communications related courses. I enjoy courses that are in communications and writing because I believe in the changing global economy the next generation...

...I spend time getting to know the individual needs of my students and then tailor a program of study that best addresses both subject matter gaps and test taking strategies and skills. I develop a rapport with my students often utilizing my quick wit and good humor and this relationship helps to motivate them and elicit their best performance. In addition, I utilize frequent testing and feedback to reinforce their progress. My academic credentials are...

...bachelor's degree, magna cum laude, and master's degree (both in economics) from Rutgers University in 2014 and 2015, respectively. I would describe my tutoring and teaching style as Socratic; that is, asking and answering questions in order to stimulate critical thinking in my students and tutees. I aim to act as a guide for my students, pushing them to obtain answers rather than rely exclusively on others. In doing so, I hope to put my...

...future, which is why I have started and edit my own publication, Athens New Renaissance magazine. I love sharing language and communication with people, and use my high energy as well as my sharp editing to make the most out of their experience and skill. I work to build the confidence in my students that later becomes central to their advancement, so that they can glean the most value from their work and achieve academic...

...teacher. For me, learning has always been a personal and individualized endeavor, and I believe that is how we all learn best. After all, no two students are alike. By providing a comfortable demeanor coupled with expert knowledge of the subject area, I can help a student learn in the best way possible. My favorite subjects are and have always been foreign languages (particularly Spanish and French), math, and writing mechanics. I am also very...

...Public Health at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health. I received my B.A. in Psychology and Environmental Studies at Wesleyan University. In high school, I was selected by my teachers to tutor classmates in Chemistry, Physics, and Geometry. I helped students with homework problems and with test preparation (both for in-class exams and for the SAT Subject Tests). As an undergraduate, I was a teaching assistant for introductory Russian, and worked with students both...