Award-Winning High School English Tutors serving Essex County, NJ

...physics, philosophy, music, and politics. In high school, I tutored elementary, middle, and high school students in music, math, ACT and SAT prep, and Spanish. At Harvard, I spent a year as a course assistant in the math department, helping to teach introductory undergraduate calculus. Currently, I volunteer with the Leadership Institute at Harvard College (LIHC) as part of its Social Outreach Committee. This work involves teaching a weekly course called "Fundamentals of Leadership" to...

...tutoring in all high school math levels and specialize in writing/essay editing and SAT/ACT test prep as well. I am a creative writing minor and really enjoy using a variety of methods to help you develop a sense of conciseness, organization, and rhythm in their writing. Some of my favorite writers/poets include Langston Hughes, John Steinbeck, and Peter Matthiessen. Before returning to Middlebury College to finish my B.A. degree, I both taught and tutored for...

...University this fall where I hope to study International Relations. The past summer I provided one-on-one SAT tutoring sessions to local high schoolers and helped each student improve by at least one hundred points. Currently, I am teaching SAT and SHSAT classes at a New York tutoring center, working with classes of more than 20 middle school and high school students. I am qualified to provide tutoring services in any high school, middle school, or...

...Molecular Biology and a minor in Spanish Literature. Since high school, I have tutored various subjects including biology, math, Spanish, and English. In college, I was accepted into the Mentoring and Student Teaching Program for underserved children in Philadelphia. I served as a science and english tutor for three years, while tutoring my peers in Spanish and Biology as well. Having taken the MCAT and excelled on the SAT, ACT, as well as multiple SAT...

...Angeles and Paris, always in a French school so I quickly became bilingual. I have always loved science, in particular physics and mathematics and have been lucky enough to share this with others through tutoring. I can help with all levels of math and physics up through graduate level course work. I also can tutor all levels of French as I have taken the French baccalaureat. I started tutoring in high school, everything from math,...

...South Asian, and African Studies. At Columbia, I graduated with a 3.72 GPA and made the Dean's List six semesters in a row. Upon graduating, I was awarded honors for my senior thesis in comparative politics analyzing the causes of civil violence in Africa. I am now living in New Jersey for the summer and studying for the LSAT (I plan to attend law school in a couple years) before starting a corporate management position...

...College of New Jersey for my graduate degree in Educational Leadership, with a 4.0 grade point average. Since graduation, I have been teaching high school World and American History of all levels from inclusion to Advanced Placement. I have also taught Economics. While I tutor a broad range of subjects, I am most passionate about History. In my experience, helping struggling students prepare for standardized tests, we always seem to have the most fun (with...

...a minor in Early Childhood. I am now enrolled in the Alternate Route program with the State of New Jersey, where I will obtain a dual Teacher's Certification for K-6 and Special Education. I have my Substitute Teacher Certificate and was a Substitute Teacher for Elementary and Middle School. I have owned a Home Daycare for over 8 years where I taught children in Preschool and Pre-Kindergarten. I have also worked in the Public School...

...of Art. While at Yale, I was a student curator at the Yale University Art Gallery and president of Yaledancers. I also worked as an Editorial Assistant at the Gallery and was active in numerous other dance groups on campus. I studied abroad in Paris during the fall of my junior year where I attended a French university and worked at a contemporary art gallery. Most recently, I was a finalist for the UK Fulbright...

...humanities in a middle school setting and can honestly say it is my dream job. Working with students and helping them reach their goals is what makes me so passionate about teaching. My goal is that each and every student who comes to me for help, walks away feeling prepared and empowered, to complete their academic journey on their own. Outside of teaching, I love superheroes! Anything Marvel related is for me. I also love...

I am an experienced tutor and teacher in a wide variety of subjects who specializes in student-centered, personalized learning.... I believe you need to meet students where they are, match your teaching style to their personal interests, and let them have a role in setting their goals. Learning is something a student does with a teacher's help, not something a teacher does to a student.... Ask them what they like and don't like about the subject,...

...I do love facts) but about creating your own experience. Learning truly becomes passion when it asks as much from the student as it gives back. My role as a tutor is to be a collaborator. I am here to challenge and help, but I am not here to direct the learning. That must come from the student. I truly believe that this approach leads to more passionate and better students. I am a professional...

...3rd grade boy and 5th grade girl in English and Math (up until Algebra 1) for 4 years! I went to college at UC Berkeley, where I continued tutoring middle school and high school kids in English, Math, Social Studies, and Writing. I taught English and Math at an elementary school and high school in Spain for one year after graduating. I'm highly experienced in working with individuals ranging from elementary school to high school....

...have worked as a lifeguard and a Water Safety Instructor, teaching swim lessons to kids aged 2-16. I have tutored every subject, ranging from music theory, geometry, calculus, reading, and biology all through high school and hope to continue helping and inspiring students to excel in all subjects. Outside of studying, I enjoy the outdoors. In the winter I love snowboarding and ice-skating, and in the summers I spend my time wakeboarding, surfing, swimming, and...

...equal time for lecture and discussion of a variety of topics related to the subject of each lesson, including socio-political context, transformative historical events, and important figures. The lessons are easy to follow, with plenty of opportunity for questions. At the moment, I am a PhD candidate in Comparative Liteterature, with a concentration in Islamic & Middle Eastern Studies. My dissertation title is The Significance of the Insignificant of the Everyday in Elif Shafak and...

I am a professional actor, singer, vocal coach, and teacher. I am a bilingual native German speaker and am happy and excited to help you with your German and/or public speaking. I have a lot of experience in teaching people of any age and level, so everyone is welcome to contact me. ... I am happy and excited to teach anyone who is willing to learn and is curious. Everything else can be acquired and developed....

...to Psychology course and was a private tutor in statistics. Due to my passion for access equal education, I was also a leader of Project Eye to Eye, a national mentoring initiative targeted to those with learning disabilities. These marginalized students taught me about their struggles: the hours of hard work they spent doing what others do in minutes, the discrimination they faced from peers and teachers who mistook their inability as an unwillingness to...

...Universtiy. I have previously taught ESL students, computer classes, and tutored at the community college level. I've also worked as a high school Spanish teacher. Hermine Marshall once said "Teachers need to discover new perspectives and new solutions to the problems of learning, ultimately improving the learning environment, by restructuring the frame through which they perceive a problem and generating alternative metaphors." No student learns exactly the same way. Students must trust you as a...

...working on a degree in Computer Science with a minor in Applied Mathematics. I began tutoring the SAT in college and learned how disparate educational experiences can be. That work heavily influenced my decision to become a teacher. Immediately after graduation, I launched a Mandarin language immersion program for preschool children in Colorado, then transitioned to working with legal databases for JP Morgan Chase, and finally landed a full-time teaching position in a middle school...

...content with their education, and learn beyond the scope of what is taught in school. I hope to bring creativity and passion into schoolwork. Showing students learning tricks and methods that break the mold of traditional routines that do not improve learning in many students is extremely important to me. I can identify with the confusion and frustration schoolwork brings, and have worked hard to construct innovative tricks that help struggling students.