Award-Winning High School English Tutors serving Danbury, CT

My inspiration comes from that moment when you look at a students face and know that they have just understood a concept. It is invigorating to know that you have helped empower a student with knowledge that no one can ever take away.

Once I began teaching, I knew I had found my real calling. As much as I loved working for public television, WNET/13, in NYC, where I had the opportunity to cover then Pope John Paul, it was when I began teaching that I realized that this is where I belonged.

I'm a Mechanical Engineering student at UNH. I have a lot of experience with all ages and a variety of subjects. I'm here to help you learn and grow as a student. I'm here to help!

...I believe I understand how best to communicate with and teach fellow students of all ages. Being able to relate to students is an important aspect of an effective learning environment. I believe that nothing is more important to this process than patience. I know that no student or child is exactly alike, nor do...

...American English, French, Language Teaching Methods, World and American History, which are most of the subjects I am tutoring for. I also took standardized tests, that is why I know some good tricks to approach critical and analytical writing. The subjects I most enjoy tutoring for are languages, because you can get a real sense...

I have been tutoring math, science, and English for the past 17 years (+15,000 hours of experience) to elementary, middle school, high school, and college students attending public and private schools. I have also taught students around the world in ESL and standardized exams.

...I believe that each mind and way of learning is completely unique, and I am dedicated to providing each person with the tools and techniques that work for them. My tutoring experience includes: college-level - English, essay writing and editing and senior theses (employed by the college). Elementary: math and reading remediation and intervention (including...

...with college test prep and essay writing, as well as general college advising. As a Classics major, I'm big into the Socratic method: leading students to the answer of a problem by asking questions at each step. More often than not, they knew the answer all along! When I'm not tutoring, I'm conducting research on...

...from the Sorbonne in early modern French history. While I was there, I tutored students of all ages in English and I taught English conversation to French high school students. Then I joined Teach for America and moved back to the states, where I've taught ancient history to 5th graders for the last two years....

My college background in both math and architecture makes me suited to helping you develop strategies of visualization for problems that seem at first, abstruse, and to help you find ways your strengths in diverse branches of the liberal arts can be connected and brought to bear on what challenges you.

...am a freshman History major at Yale University with a real passion for teaching and tutoring. I've previously been a teaching fellow for the Pathfinder Program at Hopkins School, and I am so excited to get started here at Varsity Tutors! I was the captain of my varsity basketball team and I also act here...

...lecture in front of classes. When applying for the graduate teaching award, numerous students wrote me letters of recommendation stating that I was instrumental in them passing the class, because I was able to communicate difficult concepts in easy-to-undertand manners. My teaching philosophy is to guide and show, not tell, students how to complete complex...

...I am a first-year Masters student at Yale Divinity School. I did my undergraduate schooling at Brown University where I received a B.A. in Health and Human Biology. I have spent a lot of time tutoring and mentoring students ranging from elementary-age (~9 & 10 years old) to adults in their late 50s. I have...

...SAT and SAT II's, and New York State High School Regent's exams. In my post-graduate life, I work in the world of Jewish education at a local university. Here I help students with their religious questions regarding religious texts the Old Testament Bible, Torah, Talmud, etc among other fun Jewish life programming! I am not...

...science, and my other interests include economics and history. I have experience tutoring in an Algebra 1 classroom. I edited essays and tutored students in general subject in my high school's Literacy Resource Center. I also have privately tutored calculus. In college, I am a teaching assistant for a program that teaches middle and high...

...for Academic Progress, teaching remedial English and preparing tutoring materials. I am a sensitive, patient, and enthusiastic teacher. I love teaching, but I prefer one-on-one interactions, they are the best for learning and teaching. I am respectful of all people, and happy to work with all ages. I genuinely care whether someone understands material, I...

...get to know my students really well so that I could find ways to make our sessions fun and engaging. Building that relationships with my students is important because it allows students to feel more comfortable about communicating what they are struggling with or any concerns about our session. Among the things that my students...

A lover of learning dedicated to helping students believe in their own intelligence and cultivate their curiosity.

...then i push them a little harder until they are once again out of their comfort zone. I feel this technique is the best method of teaching students to become better writers, better test takers, and better critical thinkers. I am grateful for the countless professionals who pushed me to succeed and i hope to...

...by giving them the educational confidence needed. I started tutoring, mentoring and teaching dance at the age of fourteen. I have worked in corporate America, and the non profit sector but my passion has always remained with children. I have a daughter and I give my students as much as I would give my own...