Award-Winning ESL/ELL Tutors serving New York City, NY

...I have been a primary school dual language teacher in New York City for the past 4 years. I have a Bachelor's Degree in Linguistics from Georgetown University and a Master's Degree in Education from Hunter College, which I received through the New York City Teaching Fellows program. My teaching and tutoring practices are based...

...tutoring since my undergrad where I taught conversational English to foreign students. I decided to pursue this further by obtaining a TEFL certification and going to teach English in Istanbul, Turkey. I also have a bachelor's degree in science and a master's degree in a social science from an Ivy League University My educational background...

...I have attained would by my high school diploma. As for now, I am working on my obtaining my Bachelor's degree in English and Minor in Greek/Byzantine Studies. In the past as a volunteer, I did gain the experience of working with a student. I have worked with a fourth-grade student in English and Writing....

...have experience teaching children as well as adults ESL and have an ESL license. I am certified in the state of Texas and New York. My favorite subject to teach is reading. I have even taught children in pull ups how to read! Reading for me is a vehicle that can change and enrich your...

...of all ages from pre-k to adults. I enjoy working with students to achieve success, beyond their expectations. I received my B.A. in English Education at Adelphi University in 2009 and my M.A in English Education at Brooklyn College in 2014. In the years prior to joining HSCL's faculty, I was a corps member and...

...best learns, and from there I can either make the lessons more game-like or memory based. In every case, I approach the subject or concerning area from the most basic root and build from there. I have been working with children since middle school which made me a very patient tutor in college. Aside from...

...where I graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Comparative Literature and French Literature. My strong interest in discovering the world and communicating with people led me to learn Italian, Spanish, and Portugese on my own while maintaining fluency in my mother language which is Greek. I then went on to travel around the world...

...about other cultures, I have lived and worked in three foreign countries; I taught English to university students in Kyrgyzstan through the United States Peace Corps and high school students in Guadalajara, Mexico and studied German while working as an au pair in Germany. While working on my master's degree, I taught adult immigrants in...

...As a tutor, I create individualized and goal oriented strategies for my students in order to facilitate their success. My interests include reading (unsurprisingly), running, cooking, and traveling; I recently studied abroad in Argentina and hope to see more of the world in the future. I also love puzzles and enjoy a good challenge.

...by Design: How Engineers Get from Thought to Thing" by Henry Petroski which has shown me that to an engineer, every design can be improved upon and it is this potential to improve and progress things via engineering which strongly appeals to me. My hobby is mountain biking and I have been riding regularly for...

...English, Economics, Test Prep, and Writing. I also have classroom experience as a substitute teacher at St. Ann's School in Brooklyn, and experience teaching children from ages 4 to 18 as a coach for a recreational swim team. My favorite subjects to teach are writing, poetry and other English language fields. Outside of academics and...

...Latin and Greek is confidence through mastering the building blocks of the languages, enjoying the "strategy game" aspect of translation, and learning how to understand a thrilling culture and literature which is much closer to our own than we often realize. I studied Latin, Greek, and Classical Arabic at Oxford University in the UK and...

...in my 10 years of experience. I have gotten my education in different places. I have studied in New York, USA and Santiago, Dominican Republic. I started high School in Talented Unlimited and Finished in De La Salle in Dominican Republic. I studied in a university called Pontificia Universidad Catolica Madre y Maestra (PUCMM) in...

...it a point to truly grasp a concept or theory, instead of just memorizing it, they set themselves up to truly internalize the knowledge and be able to easily apply it moving forward. I encourage my students to think, question, and dive deep. Through time management, a hunger for knowledge, and a plan of attack,...

...confidence in themselves and their abilities. A well-designed course of study sets the learner up for "wins" that keep them coming back for more. I vary my teaching methods according to the individual student, the nature of the material and the individual ways the student best acquires knowledge. I may achieve the objectives of the...

...it as my career. That is why I love to tutor. In high school, I was active in student teaching and eventually became student teacher coordinator. I taught a classroom of 5th graders, French, for three hours each week. When I studied abroad in Paris, I taught a three year old English for 10 hours...

...work as an outdoor instructor in Vermont have nurtured my passion for experiential education, which I have completed through my work as a writing and French tutor. I have extensive experience editing college essays and helping students prepare for the Writing and Reading sections of standardized tests. I love canoeing, reading, and being outsideI'm always...

...I have taught reading using the Wilson Reading Program which is an Orton Gillingham Approach. I am currently a learning disability teacher consultant on the child study team conducting educational evaluations, case managing and assisting teachers and students with strategies to assist struggling learners, specifically with the special needs population. I have worked with all...

...I have a diverse experience of teaching different grade levels in both general education classes, and special education classes, and as an Academic Intervention Services teacher. My goal is to make students excited about learning, make learning fun for them, and watch them become successful in the learning process. As every child learns differently, I...

My teaching philosophy is contained in a single sentence: "A teacher affects eternity -- he or she can never tell where his or her influence stops." Henry Adams