Award-Winning Reading Tutors in Nassau County, NY

I am a passionate educator who seeks to create and foster equity, opportunity, and access within education. I love to learn WITH students while facilitating their academic growth. I think the most exciting part about teaching and tutoring is seeing the impact of academic growth and personal growth within students lives. I cant wait to work with you and grow with you!

...Harvard, a double BA from the University of California, Berkeley, graduating Summa Cum Laude at both schools. At Harvard I studied acting at the American Conservatory Theater/Moscow Art Theater Institute, and at Cal I studied English as well as Theater & Performance Studies, receiving scholarships in both departments, including the Departmental Citation (highest honor) for my honors thesis and production of Poet Laureate Robert Hass's "Time and Materials". As a tutor, I have worked for...

I am an NYC-based tutor with many years of tutoring experience in and around the city. I've worked with students from many different backgrounds and ability levels. I believe strongly in the importance of giving a student the confidence to flourish academically.

I am currently finishing up my first year of college, at Brandeis University, planning to major in Health: Science, Society, and Policy with a minor in Creative Writing/English. I have always loved to read and write during my free time back home, and my endless collections of diaries, Sci-Fi and adventure novels are proof of that! I look forward to sharing my interests in the sciences and humanities with my students!

...two courses in my time as an ESL instructor including two semesters of Advanced English Reading and Writing as well as a semester of Advanced Grammar. What makes me a great tutor is my passion for teaching and the subject matter, my enthusiasm in the classroom and my dedication to ensuring my students improve and succeed. I am extremely well organized, creative, motivating and patient, always teaching with a smile and positive attitude. I have...

...for grades and achievements, but for developing oneself in thought, ability to follow through, and improving one's self esteem. I am hoping to help out as best I can with your needs, and hope to help you see where in your thought process you can improve/reevaluate. I'm pretty easy going and like joking around. So there won't be much pressure and, for sure no judgement on my part. Everyone is coming from different places in...

...born and raised in Spain, I moved to New York when I was only 17 and recently graduated from Sarah Lawrence College. I have spent the last five years tutoring children, teens and adults both for academic and workplace environments, assisting the Dean of the Spanish department at Sarah Lawrence College and translating for the Spanish Consulate. Teaching Spanish has been my passion ever since. I firmly believe with the right guidance, anyone can be...

...and encouraging manner keep students engaged and achieving their goals. My specialties include teaching reading, writing, critical thinking and study skills at the elementary, middle, and high school levels. My undergraduate degree is in Education, and my graduate degrees are in Education/Reading Teacher and Educational Administration and Supervision. I adapt lessons to match students' individual learning styles and believe building students' self-confidence is crucial. Watching students have success brings me real satisfaction and joy!

...the French Enlightenment. At Yale, I not only learned strategies for critical and creative thinking that informed my own studies, but also experienced the value of sharing these habits with others as a volunteer teaching assistant in local schools. Since graduating, I have helped countless students enjoy more healthy and productive academic lives as a private tutor. As a former camp counselor, I appreciate the need for education to inform and enrich the broad elements...

...purpose or direction. The only thing I felt that I needed to do was make my way up the ladder in the corporate world. I found myself working in a law firm after college as a purchasing assistant for five years. I then made my way into the property management field, working as an administrative assistant and then an accounts payable coordinator. These jobs paid well and brought many benefits but I still felt unfulfilled....

...and create opportunities for continuing success. All too often, a child's classroom experience becomes one of frustration and discouragement. It's not the fault of the school or the teacher, necessarily. Schools only receive a fraction of the support they need and teachers are overburdened by large class sizes, mandated testing and restrictive curricula. As an individual tutor, I can assess a child's exact needs and address those factors that inhibit a child's success with patience...

...to sixth grade in special and general education. Since graduation, I have had the opportunity to teach abroad in Italy for a month. I studied and observed the education in West Africa and donated school supplies. I have over 5 years of teaching experience. While I tutor a broad range of subjects, I am most passionate about elementary school phonics, reading, writing, math, and ABA. In my experience I like to observe the student and...

...International Education from Harvard University, I became an elementary school teacher at the United Nations International School in New York City. I loved teaching here because of the multicultural atmosphere. I loved interacting with international students and learning about different cultures. I presently tutor at the elementary school level and I especially love teaching math because it's like puzzles to figure out. I use many visual aids and really believe in breaking down everything to...

...standardized lessons to students and assisted with homework. Furthermore, I was also a mentor and tutor in Big Brothers Big Sisters. Through the program, I helped with homework, assisted with strategies for improving reading comprehension, and so much more. Since moving to New York, outside of my career as an actor, I've been tutoring individual students in Brooklyn, as well as coaching high school seniors with their college essays/applications. My approach involves positive reinforcement and...

...had the opportunity to work on the Hillary for America campaign with the communications team where I learned the ins and outs of political campaigns and political communications. After the election, I went to work as an editorial intern at VICE News. At VICE, I shadowed producers, wrote articles, and developed editorial content for the website. From these experiences, I discovered my passions for writing, technology, and content development. I went to a top NYC...

...English Literature, United States History, United States Government, Economics with Personal Finance, and Cambridge Economics. In addition I have tutored students for the SAT and ACT English and essay sections and have held writing camps for college essay writing. I have taught and tutored students in preparation for state standardized tests in the area of English and U.S. History. In terms of my education, I have received a Bachelors of Arts in History Education and...

...Spanish, I am also conversational in Italian. I love to travel and learn about other cultures. I even had the unique opportunity to study abroad in Venezuela. I enjoy helping students achieve their best and have fun in the process. I have always believed in making lessons interesting. I have achieved this by using games, songs and manipulatives to enhance instruction. In my free time, I like to read, spend time with my dog and...

...For the past 10 years I held a position as a school director at an international school back in Dominican Republic. For many years I worked as a language teacher in an elementary school in New York as well as in Dominican Republic. At the beginning of my career, I worked as an elementary teacher here in New York City; I moved to Dominican Republic to pursue a doctoral degree during this time I worked...

...students achieve their academic goals. In particular, I specialize in tutoring all areas of the SAT and ACT, and any type of writing. Of course, whenever I work with students I aim to equip them with the skills I used in developing my mastery of the the material we are studying and the skills I would use to find the best answer choice or to get the sentence, paragraph and essay as a whole just...

...be extremely important to myself. Furthermore, however, I greatly enjoy easing people out of the difficulties that come with learning any challenging subject; I find that I am able to explain abstract, complex concepts well through analogies and similar methods, which, I find, is how I myself learn best as well. My hope is to engage students in such a way that their knowledge, and desire for knowledge of the subject goes beyond the particular...