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Jessica: Greenwich Social Studies tutor
Certified Social Studies Tutor in Greenwich, CT
...selective program. The tutoring program involved a preliminary peer-tutor training course prior to beginning tutoring, in order to certify that I had the appropriate background to provide professional feedback to fellow students on their literary works and projects. After graduation, I worked for a full-service learning center where I created and implemented high school lesson plans for home-schooled students, provided academic support for students ranging in ages from 8 to 20 years old, and taught...
Education & Certification
University of Pennsylvania - Bachelors, History
Nova Southeastern University - PHD, Medicine
SAT Composite (1600 scale): 1540
SAT Math: 700
SAT Verbal: 760

Peter: Greenwich Social Studies tutor
Certified Social Studies Tutor in Greenwich, CT
...have a doctorate from Yale University and am an active musician, teacher, and writer. My professional experience includes: private tuition, tutoring, schoolteaching, and university lectures. I believe teaching can be both creative and effective, which I achieve by applying personally tailored lessons, varied approaches, and professional methods. My teaching aims to meet the individual needs of each student through carefully structured lessons that establish strong foundations and encourages a dialogue of mutual engagement and continued...

Nicolas: Greenwich Social Studies tutor
Certified Social Studies Tutor in Greenwich, CT
...hoc fashion, and often with a fair bit of trepidation and hesitancy. I find it tremendously satisfying to help students conquer those initial hurdles and gain a feeling of mastery and confidence. I am patient, and I encourage my students to be patient as well. I also help students faceand in so doing, conquertheir fear of failure. We practice not fearing mistakes, but seeing them as opportunities to learn, hone skills, and grow more confident....
Education & Certification
Duke University - Bachelor in Arts, Philosophy
ACT Composite: 35
SAT Composite (1600 scale): 1530
SAT Math: 730

Katarah: Greenwich Social Studies tutor
Certified Social Studies Tutor in Greenwich, CT
...songs -- around these intersecting identities and the ways they impact my interior and our exterior worlds. Apart from my end-all goal of cultivating spaces with other like-minded artists and teachers (the healers) for our people to be seen and heard, I'm out here continuing to lay the foundation for individual narratives, like my own, to be honest sources of light for kids, artists, and anyone else who needs it. I consider myself a true...
Education & Certification
Brown University - Bachelors, Literary Arts
SAT Math: 700

Blake: Greenwich Social Studies tutor
Certified Social Studies Tutor in Greenwich, CT
...to this fascination, I have spent many hours trying to figure out what makes certain learning techniques "better" than others, and I have become well versed in a variety of teaching styles. Personally, I learn through understanding, and try to teach others through that same understanding. In my spare time I like to practice piano, guitar, and, of course saxophone. I also love to sail, to read, and to draw when I have extra time.
Education & Certification
Vanderbilt University - Bachelors, Neuroscience
ACT Composite: 34

Richard: Greenwich Social Studies tutor
Certified Social Studies Tutor in Greenwich, CT
...to a class of middle school students. Overall, I have found my experiences tutoring math to be the most rewarding. In all of these experiences, I have found it is helpful for students to work with someone relatively close to their own age. As someone who enjoys problem-solving for its own sake, I often find myself in the position of explaining difficult concepts and abstract ideas to people with very different backgrounds and personalities than...
Education & Certification
Harvard University - Bachelor in Arts, Government
ACT Composite: 36
ACT English: 35
ACT Math: 36

Lisa: Greenwich Social Studies tutor
Certified Social Studies Tutor in Greenwich, CT
...served as a teaching assistant for Process Analytics, a course requirement for the Mendoza School of Business undergraduate program. Im currently pursing my passion to help others and augment my own knowledge as I work on a Masters degree in General Psychology. I truly love to learn, and Im inherently inclined to share my enthusiasm for learning with others. My goal is to help students excel in all of their coursework, and to identify the...
Education & Certification
University of Notre Dame - Bachelors, Finance
The New School - Masters, Psychology
SAT Composite (1600 scale): 1530
SAT Math: 780
SAT Verbal: 720

Eva : Greenwich Social Studies tutor
Certified Social Studies Tutor in Greenwich, CT
...and work steadily and optimistically, both with and alongside them, until we have met every goal. Sometimes this happens earlier than planned, sometimes later. I approach the study of language with intention yet flexibility. It loses its beauty and particularity the second discouragement spreads, the instant anxiety kicks in. I believe a good tutor must do more than teach content. She offers positive reinforcement and guidance, discerning aid every step of the way. Outside of...
Education & Certification
Columbia University in the City of New York - Current Undergrad, English/Comparative Literature, Pre-Medical Studies
SAT Verbal: 800
SAT Writing: 790

Kathryn: Greenwich Social Studies tutor
Certified Social Studies Tutor in Greenwich, CT
...two different ways of telling stories about 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. Tutoring mathematics (and standardized tests) means breaking an idea down to its most...
Education & Certification
Wesleyan University - Bachelor in Arts, African Studies
GRE Quantitative: 163
GRE Verbal: 169

Sherry: Greenwich Social Studies tutor
Certified Social Studies Tutor in Greenwich, CT
...NYC, Sherry loves traveling. Besides traveling, she loves reading, drawing, playing guitar, practicing yoga and a myriad of other things she can't think to type into a description box that is only a simulacrum of herself. Sherry has been a teaching assistant at prep centers like Kumon for years, and a tutor for longer, helping many students achieve their schoolwork and test score goals in a flexible, tailored, understanding way, and hopes to continue to...
Education & Certification
New York University - Bachelors, Biochemistry
ACT Composite: 33
ACT English: 32
ACT Math: 36

Sylvan: Greenwich Social Studies tutor
Certified Social Studies Tutor in Greenwich, CT
...have two years of experience working in formal education including day-to-day substituting in Brookline and long-term class coverage in Boston, as well as experience in private, non-essential education (teaching with Education First in Quito, Ecuador). While I very much enjoy classroom teaching, the one-to-one or small-group teaching I did with Education First is something that I found to be most rewarding. Really being able to form close relationships with a small number of students and...
Education & Certification
Boston University - Bachelors, Philosophy and Political Science
SAT Composite (1600 scale): 1510
SAT Math: 760
SAT Verbal: 700

Sita: Greenwich Social Studies tutor
Certified Social Studies Tutor in Greenwich, CT
...position included both teaching and research responsibilities. I was teaching all levels of mathematics, including single- and multi-variable calculus, linear algebra, differential equations, advanced undergraduate analysis as well as graduate courses. While I love math and teaching, I found that working working full-time at a university is not for me. The heavy teaching loads and constant pressure to publish research results left me run down and exhausted, and that's not how I want to live...
Education & Certification
University of California-Berkeley - Bachelor in Arts, Mathematics
Portland State University - Master of Science, Mathematics
University of Jyvaskyla - Doctor of Philosophy, Mathematics

Christian: Greenwich Social Studies tutor
Certified Social Studies Tutor in Greenwich, CT
...have extensive classroom teaching experience and a strong passion for education. With experience working at the United Nations, leading sales for an international pharmaceuticals company, and teaching students of a wide range of ages in Korea, I excel at connecting with people on a level that they understand. As an educator, I seek to bring real-world value to whatever I am teaching, helping students to understand how the topic at hand connects to their everyday...
Education & Certification
McGill University - Bachelors, Political Science and Government
GRE Verbal: 166

Yoni: Greenwich Social Studies tutor
Certified Social Studies Tutor in Greenwich, CT
...continue to live in New York and am now completing a fellowship (speciality training) in gastroenterology on Long Island. I have extensive experience tutoring for the SAT and ACT but I also tutor high school and college math, science and history courses. My teaching style focuses on clear and thorough didactic teaching to ensure that you, the student, understand the concept and then follow that up with many practice problems to ensure mastery of the...
Education & Certification
University of Pennsylvania - Bachelors, History
Tufts University - PHD, MD - Doctor of Medicine

Shin: Greenwich Social Studies tutor
Certified Social Studies Tutor in Greenwich, CT
...best caters to their needs feels awesome. As a tutor, I always ensure that my students have a good qualitative understanding of the subjects they are struggling in before helping them with quantitative problems. For example, rather than simply telling my calculus students the formula for integration by parts, I first show them how it is derived so they acquire a good grasp of how it operates. Outside of school, I really enjoy being involved...
Education & Certification
Columbia University in the City of New York - Bachelor of Science, Earth and Environmental Engineering
ACT Composite: 34
ACT English: 34
ACT Math: 34

Rachel: Greenwich Social Studies tutor
Certified Social Studies Tutor in Greenwich, CT
...independent research. After graduating from Duke, I accepted an international teaching position with WorldTeach. I was very grateful for the experience to live on the island of Pohnpei in the Federated States of Micronesia for a year and teach reading and writing to high school juniors and seniors. Although my formal experience is working with high school aged students, I have background experience working with younger students, as well. I have experience teaching reading and...
Education & Certification
Duke University - Bachelor in Arts, Colorful Sounds of Human Rights & Relations: The immigration of music & ideas East to West
ACT English: 34
ACT Reading: 33
SAT Composite (1600 scale): 1410

Isabel: Greenwich Social Studies tutor
Certified Social Studies Tutor in Greenwich, CT
...I have worked with children and students in some capacity, as either a nanny or a tutor or both, for roughly five years. I am driven, excited, and passionate about helping students achieve above and beyond. I believe that any student has the capacity to achieve, as long as they are able to find the right motivation and skills to do so. This motivation comes from within, certainly, but is more so the duty of...
Education & Certification
CUNY City College - Bachelor in Arts, English

Leonard: Greenwich Social Studies tutor
Certified Social Studies Tutor in Greenwich, CT
...ensuring that they not simply memorize concepts or regurgitate facts but truly understand the material. I ask them to defend their answers which teaches them that the correct response is often less important than the reasoning used to reach said response. I honestly believe that anyone can learn anything given enough time and patience. I try my best to not only be a teacher but also a role model to my students and to interact...
Education & Certification
Columbia - Bachelor in Arts, Math

Dana: Greenwich Social Studies tutor
Certified Social Studies Tutor in Greenwich, CT
...recently graduated from Brown University with a degree in Public Policy, but I my fields of study ranged from biology to organic chemistry to British literature. I'm a hardworking, compassionate, and patient individual who has been tutoring since high school and helping my little sister with her homework long before. I'll work with every new student individually to recognize his or her strengths and weaknesses to make sure that material is actually being learned, not...
Education & Certification
Brown University - Bachelor in Arts, Public Policy and American Institutions
ACT Composite: 36
ACT English: 36
ACT Math: 36

Payal: Greenwich Social Studies tutor
Certified Social Studies Tutor in Greenwich, CT
...be a mentor of my students. I like developing long-term relationships and each students abilities and dreams are like my own. I want them to cultivate them and use them for the best of society. I want students to take each challenge as welcoming and surmountable. Learning is a skill that can be easily changed and used to our best advantage. Students can learn some tips from me that would give them an edge in...
Education & Certification
University of Tennessee Knoxville - Bachelors, Biology, General
Ross University of Medicine - Current Grad Student, Medicine
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