Award-Winning AP World History Tutors in Istanbul

...kids K-12. I've mostly helped students with mathematics (middle-school level through SAT prep), computer science (introductory web development and object-oriented programming), and English-Language Arts (reading comprehension with students grades 1-4). I've worked in environments ranging from a charter school in the South Bronx to a prep school in Connecticut. In mathematics in particular I have...

...have a lot of strategies that help both student with and without learning disabilities remember information and understand it. Outside of education and work, I enjoy sailing, which I have both participated in and coached most of my life. I walked on to the Harvard varsity team my freshmen year and ended up racing at...

...tutored at-risk teens at a nearby high school, focusing not only on the academic aspect but on cultivating mutual respect with the students as well. The experience I gained from this position has shown me the underlying tenacity in young men and women to learn if the curriculum is tailored to their interests or presented...

...be pursuing work in the public sector, working specifically in foreign affairs. I have thoroughly enjoyed my college experience, and have developed tremendously as a writer and critical thinker. I hope to help students do the same as a tutor. My teaching philosophy is simple: work with students to get them to connect the concepts...

...education, and at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in my undergraduate education. I try to relate whatever subject I am tutoring to the real world. Learning is a lot easier and fun if students see the relevance to their lives. I am a very patient person, and I believe that making mistakes is often when...

...the world in which we live. Tutoring history means building stories out of a collection of facts, a love of places, peoples, and cultures both near and far that I learned young while describing my family history - with a father from Cape Town, South Africa, and a mother from New Orleans - to others....

...with new questions, new ideas, cupped and shielded in our hands like captured fireflies. When she left us, we were sad; but the light did not go out. She had written her indelible signature on our minds. I have had lots of teachers who taught me soon forgotten things; but only a few who created...

...and math. Having been a high school student only a few years ago, I know very well how we all need a little help with some subjects and tests, and I would be more than happy to help! Some of my favorite subjects in school included math and physics, and I relish in work that...

...education. I had my introduction to tutoring several years ago, when I taught a child with a disability through eighth grade. That experience gave me the utmost respect for all of our children who are learning, no matter how hard their struggle may seem from our perspective. I am a well-rounded individual, graduating high school...

...just one thing, it would be a better sense of confidence and excitement about education and learning. Through Varsity, I hope to help and encourage students to work hard and strive to achieve more. In my free time, I enjoy photography, traveling, and the outdoors-I recently combined all three by driving across the country with...