Award-Winning High School English Tutors serving Nassau County, NY

...York University, and am currently on a year long leave from the Hopkins-Nanjing Center based in China. I am a certified ESL instructor. In addition to my tutoring work, I am currently working as a content marketing intern for a Shanghai-based consulting firm. I have taught all over the world from South America to East Asia, and collectively have years of tutoring experience. These experiences have been as diverse as teaching English as a Second...

...college or helping classmates learn and prepare for school all the way back to my elementary school days. In one form or another, I've been helping people learn almost as long as I remember. A great tutor needs to be intelligent, with a comprehensive, intuitive understanding of the subject matter. It's not enough to just know the answers to questions; a tutor needs to understand why the answers are what they are. A great tutor...

...improve their writing both informally and professionally. Developing a story is hard work, but I find that pushing through that difficulty is incredibly fulfilling, and it is a rewarding experience to help people do that. My love of stories continues well into my leisure time. I enjoy am an avid fan of films and television, books, as well as anime and manga. When I am not voraciously devouring someone else's story, I am usually telling...

...tutor at Fairleigh Dickinson University where I worked with students needing assistance with Math, Physics, and Business subjects, including Accounting, Finance, Economics, and Statistics. I really enjoy helping others learn as I am able to find different perspectives to help the student understand the material at hand. I am also available for weekly and bi-weekly tutoring sessions to help the student stay focused and organized for any major projects, exams, and/or goals.

...school students, or high school students on AP, honors, or regular class levels-- I have always placed the student first. I'm easygoing and friendly, but persistent and focused. I ask questions, but none you can't handle-- or that we can't work through together, without judgement. I go at your pace, but with an urgency that gets results. My favorite part of tutoring is the process of discovery. When the student reaches an outcome on their...

...Teachers College, Columbia University studying Clinical Psychology. I have spent the last 6 years studying psychology and sociology. Some of my hobbies are running and doing yoga. I love to play piano, walk my dogs, and eat! I have been to most of western Europe, Mexico, and am planning on traveling some more before I start my doctoral degree. I have been tutoring students for the past 6 years in both formal and informal settings....

My philosophy is that every student deserves to be successful, no matter how or at what pace they learn. My job is to figure how you learn, and to help you develop skills to be able to learn on your own! I also like to make learning fun. Education shouldn't be boring, and we should bring life to it! ... All students, no matter how they learn, are entitled to a great education. Learning should be...

...for America corps member, I was placed in Houston, primarily as a science teacher, though I dabbled in much more! I was a certified teacher, with three years of teaching experience. Now that I work full time, and am no longer in the classroom, tutoring is my hobby. Though my teaching background is in the maths and sciences, literature and writing are my passions. My students have known great success from elementary upwards: I have...

I have spent three years teaching students from varying ages math, science and English. My favorite subjects are English and science. I am currently majoring in Biology in Bates College, and plan to help and tutor more students.

I hope I'm able to help you overcome whatever academic challenges or struggles you're going through. I've been tutoring others since I was 17. Growing up, my mom was an important part of my education. She stressed how valuable knowledge is and taught me how to always strive for understanding as much as possible. Now I like to pass that on to those I can and help others better their education too.

...tutoring experience, who is looking to help students who need additional help within their learning experience. I have the most experience tutoring writing, but I also love working with math, history and English. I have experience working with special needs students and have a strong familiarity with the NYS Regents exams especially in Algebra 1, Geometry, English, Global history and Living Environment. I have a majority of my teaching experience covering math and English high...

...my students often. I began tutoring at the age of 8 with my older brother and as I matriculated through school realized that I had a passion for it even though I didn't really know what "it" was, I was just helping people. In high school I was a part of a traveling group called CAPA Caravan in which we traversed the city and worked with students from kindergarten to 8th grade and taught reading...

...my sister to transport the rest home in her backpack. In exchange, I did half of her chores for the week. This lasted for as long as my "grounding" lasted. And it was during these periods of book smuggling that my love for learning really blossomed. My mom had her reasons for her unique punishment style: part to to discipline me, of course, but also to reinforce my love of reading. This seems counter-intuitive, I...

...my years of writing-intensive tutorial classes at Williams College, combined with my professional experience as a theater director and script editor, have provided me with a range of strategies to help students see their writing as a performance of their thinking. As a history tutor, my approach is similar. It's hard to memorize facts and dates; even harder if you feel personally unconnected to them. Students struggling to memorize people and events in a vacuum...

...Abbey School, New England's premiere co-ed Catholic boarding school. While at the Abbey, I taught two sections of sophomore Humanities (a Western "great books" course stretching from St. Paul's "Letter to the Romans" and Augustine's "Confessions" to Marx's "The Communist Manifesto" and Freud's "Civilization and Its Discontents") and one section of senior English (we began with several Shakespeare plays and ended with the novels of Dickens, Joyce, and Nabokov). Both classes required a great deal...

...goals and needs. Villa El Salvador taught me how to connect with students from a completely different linguistic and cultural background. Finally, Chapman University's Center for Academic Success taught me how to expand my range from basic reading and writing skills to different areas of literature, essay construction and writing, and foreign languages, specifically German and Spanish. My strongest subjects include reading comprehension, phonics, grammar, essay construction and writing, German language (all levels) and Spanish...

...collaborative efforts have resulted in the successful publication of scholarly articles, books, textbooks, dissertations, collections of plays, essays, translations, and short stories. My most recent collaborative project was nominated for a literary award for outstanding translation of contemporary Russian fiction. I received a BA in French and English from Indiana University in 2007, and graduated on the Dean's list with honors, and won the prestigious Quinten B. Hope award for excellence in French Language Studies....

...Pennsylvania, working towards my Bachelor of Arts in Psychology. Although unofficial, I will most likely continue on to minor in English/Literature or Art History. My skills vary widely in terms of tutoring subjects. I am personally equipped to teach elementary school through college level courses; however, as I have a passion for literature and the arts, I specialize and do best in tutoring English, Writing, and Literature Analysis & Critique. I love to equip my...

...with a degree in psychology and a wide range of academic expertise. I specialize in college counseling and college prep tutoring (SAT, ACT, PSAT) and have independently tutored students for over two years. I scored a near perfect score on the SAT and on subject tests, and tutored students who raised their scores by over thirty percent. College entrance exams are not impossible; you just need the right tools. I provide my students with every...

...learning can be fun and test-taking doesn't have to be tedious. In addition to tutoring, I also teach drama, sing, and play piano. I am always seeking out new ways to reach my students and get them excited in the learning process-- no boring textbook readings here! I received my B.A. from Macaulay Honors College at Queens with Highest Honors in English/ Drama. I was also awarded the Robert Greenberg Memorial Prize for best performance...