Award-Winning ISEE- Lower Level Tutors serving Plainfield, NJ

...to pursue my Science career in New York, where I worked in a laboratory at Columbia University Medical Center. While working, I applied to graduate school and entered in Fall of 2013. I am currently earning my PhD at New York University in Molecular Biophysics. I hope to one day apply my crystallography skills to advance the area of novel drug design. In my free time I enjoy traveling, running and playing lacrosse.

...grade from pre-kindergarten to eighth except for third and sixth grades. I enjoy teaching because there are so many ways to teach a student that were not available when I was a student especially in the elementary grades. The different ways help both me and my students because I can utilize these ways to ensure their success and to help build their confidence in their ability. When a student has confidence in their skills, they...

...traveled and lived in Lake Tahoe California. I went on to earn a double Master's Degree from Temple University in TESOL/English Education. I taught 8th Grade English and Social Studies in Philadelphia, and then moved to New Jersey. I started teaching Kindergarten through Fifth Grade ESL in a Title 1 school, as well as adult ESL as an adjunct at various community colleges. Later, I earned a Master's Degree from Monmouth University in Educational Leadership/Principal/Supervisor....

...stayed with me all these years from Professor Farris' class was that Piaget dealt with the nature of knowledge itself and how humans come gradually to acquire, construct, and use it. To Piaget cognitive development was a progressive reorganization of mental processes as a result of biological maturation and environmental experience (combining nature and nurture) Accordingly, children construct an understanding of the world around them, then experience discrepancies between what they already know and what...

...Attorney-in-waiting to be called to the Jamaican Bar. I am passionate about helping students to ensure they are not left behind along with the satisfaction of ensuring they achieve their academic goals. This passion was exemplified when I was tutoring 11 and 12 graders and they achieved top 10 national rankings . These subjects include history and social studies. I also help and maximize students' potential for exams such as the SSAT, ISEE and the...

...a degree in English Literature. I am currently pursuing a master's degree in Speech-Language Pathology at New York University. I chose this field because of my love of language and my desire to help people. My ambition is to work in a school for children with special needs. While I am in graduate school, I want to give back to the community by helping students achieve academic success. It is quite rewarding. I have experience...

I am a hard-working, responsible, and friendly student with a strong passion to pursue a career in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. I believe that to be an effective mentor you must have a desire to assist children in the learning process and this is one quality which I feel I definitely possess. I look forward to working with you!

...am also certified K-8 all subjects and have experience tutoring math, reading, writing/language arts to elementary school students. 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 age groups...

...I substituted for him while he went to China for a few weeks. The students loved me even though I wasn't that much older than them (they were middle school students). After college I spent a year in Beijing and tutored adults in English and Chinese. In 2007 I taught a GRE class at Baruch College in Manhattan. In 2007 I began working on Wall Street while volunteering after work. Most recently from 2012-2014 I...

...graduating, I have worked with children in a variety of grade levels. I have taught fifth grade math and third grade. I currently teach first grade. I love teaching all subjects but teaching reading is my favorite. I love seeing students learn to truly enjoy reading and making it fun rather than a struggle. Through my variety of experiences, I have learned that through engaging and differentiated lessons, every student is able to make progress...

...sessions. Here, I would be able to ask questions that clarified topics that would otherwise take me much longer to understand. Often I would relay this information to my friends, and I felt a sense of fulfillment in teaching it. Being able to help someone along to their "a-ha!" moment and share in that experience has been one of the greatest joys of teaching. In addition, doing so not only helped them, but also myself...

...in Business Marketing and Textile Science. I also hold a New York State Esthetician license. I spent 5 years as Director for a foreign trade manufacturing company based in Shanghai, China. While living in China, I taught people professional English conversation and written and verbal communication for business and everyday life. During my time in Asia, I enriched my free time in the evenings and weekends with my colleagues' children, helping them with English homework...

...hours familiarizing myself with dozens of real SAT tests and SAT format-specific strategies. While a tutor, and later general manager, at a boutique university admissions consulting company in Cairo Egypt, I applied my teaching experience to a leading role developing SAT curricula for a variety of skill levels. Though I have played a number of roles as an educator, I take a special pleasure in prepping students for the SAT. It is a fundamentally understandable...

...and college. I have also counseled students on college admissions and edited hundreds of college application essays at the undergraduate and graduate levels (including for medical school). I have written books, professional articles, and podcast episodes over many years. For three years, my college admissions podcast (USACollegeChat) reached thousands of prospective college students and their parents. My specialties are improving grammar, punctuation, and capitalization; writing concise and engaging sentences; building perfect paragraphs; and putting together...

...10 years. But in the meantime, I would like to get a firm footing by tutoring struggling students. I love to teach, often helping my nephew with his math homework and occasionally Spanish and some science. I am crazy about the English language and languages in general, having studied Spanish in high school and Japanese and Italian in college. And math has always been a passion of mine. I want to pass those passions onto...

...right, I learned how to believe in myself and trust that my hard work and dedication will prevail. When I had worked a forty hour work week and had to drive three hours to play an overnight, weekend show, it took passion, commitment, and dedication to show up for my band mates, ready to play and enjoy every second of it. As a teacher, when I am presented with a challenge, I believe in my...

...the elementary years, emphasis must be placed on a strong foundation of understanding and of learning habits for greater success in the more rigid and demanding high school and college years. I am currently an elementary school teacher, although I have worked with students from early childhood through college. In the past couple of years (including summer), I have taught kindergarten and first, third, and fourth grade. I am completing a Master's degree in education...

...have a passion for Theatre and English, I am also bilingual in English and Spanish. As a future teacher I truly relish working with kids as well as watching them improve. I come from a small family, and got married a year and a half ago. I am a bible study teacher at my local church working with kids from ages 9 to 15. I take joy in group games and activities that will also...

...in TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages), but I also teach elementary school subjects. I studied Elementary Education and Anthropology in my undergraduate studies. Since I have a love for travel and learning 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...

...and know how much of a stress-reliever a tutor can be. Years of honors courses have prepared me to be the one to relieve that academic stress for you. During the 2016-17 school year, I tutored a middle school student in math. When I met her, she was failing. By the end of our time together, she improved to a B, and was way more confident in the subject matter. I also provided homework help...