Award-Winning SSAT Tutors serving New Rochelle, NY

...my teaching degrees from Saint Peter's University. I plan on attending New Jersey City University in the fall to complete the Learning Disabilities Teaching Consultant certification program. I have been teaching for seven years. I have taught children from age 2 to 8th grade! I am currently teaching in a first grade. Here I am the lead teacher in an inclusion classroom with one aide including ESL, special and regular education students. I enjoy teaching...

I'm a student at the City College of New York with a major in Geology. When I'm tutoring someone, it makes me feel like I'm also learning. It gives me honor when it comes to bestowing an incredible learning experience.

I am an intuitive listener who likes to communicate with people and to analyze what they say in order to understand them, connect with them, and influence their growth into more optimistic and moral people.

...vessels for knowledge, but rather human beings with individual goals, hopes, and dreams. These are integral to their academic and pre-college work, since excellent work derives from one's sense of self, motivation, and experience. To this end, I always engage with students as collaborators. I work with them to develop "Sarah's SAT Prep Plan" or "Mike's Writing Workshop", as opposed to just a general course of study meant for anyone. Identifying specific problems and moving...

...English: American Literature, AP English Language & Composition and AP English Literature. Some of my best days have been in these classrooms, and it is my passion to explore the world of reading, writing and language with students. I am very familiar with the aforementioned tests. I take each and every one of them and analyze them with eyes of a student so that I can recognize where common errors can occur. Then I explain...

...Environmental Engineering, I am interested in Aerospace Engineering and Architecture, and I plan to pursue a minor in both of these fields. Outside of school, I hike and play golf for fun, but I also tutor several students. In high school, I worked at Kumon Learning Center and assisted students with their math and reading coursework. I am also currently a tutor for the STEP program at Cornell, where I teach middle school and high...

...Ed. I loved the opportunities Hunter gave me to pursue my love of Literature, Psychology and Teaching. I have traveled extensively in Europe over the years, and I am always on the lookout for new learning experiences that I can share with my students. I do not hesitate to share with them pictures and stories of the places I have visited which connect to literature because they can see that I am not only knowledgeable...

I have been a teacher in Commack Public Schools for 23 years. I have taught Kindergarten, first, fifth and I am presently teaching 3rd grade. I have facilitated many professional development workshops for colleagues within Commack and outside of Commack. I believe all students can learn! Learning should be FUN! Looking forward to sharing my love of READING and WRITING!!

I graduated from The College of New Rochelle with a masters degree in education. I have always enjoyed working with youth in several different aspects. I've been a mentor, I've been a teacher and of course I've been a tutor. I believe helping people, especially youth, is extremely important. I want to help as many as I can, for as long as I can.... Teach children according to how they learn. Everyone learns in a different...

...in Psychology at Boston University, I continued my academic career at Adelphi University to receive a Master's Degree in Childhood Education. Now, I will be completing my 8th year as a teacher for the Department of Education. Since I am always interested trying new things and challenging myself, I recently began rock climbing. I love the mental and physical challenges of different activities and exercising. Traveling and exploring the world is another great love of...

I believe that communication and flexibility are key to successful teaching.

...in 2002, Harvard University in 2006 with a B.A. in Sociology, and from Pace University in 2008 with an MS Ed in bilingual elementary education. I am a native New Yorker with over 10 years of teaching experience in public and charter schools, and directing tutoring centers in NYC. In my 10+ years as an educator, I've taught phonics to essay writing, number sense to logarithms. My success is not based on the curriculum knowledge...

...fifth grade math at a charter school. Last year, my students' math state test scores were the sixth highest in New York State. My belief that every student can succeed and my relentless pursuit of that goal enables our success. Every day, I analyze student work to diagnose strengths and weaknesses and form individualized plans to accelerate every student's understanding. My engaging teaching, high expectations, progressive curriculum, and strong relationships with students and parents ensure...

My experiences as an educator have allowed me to develop rigorous curriculum aligned to the Common Core. Through continuous assessment, data analysis, and reflection I tailor my practice to ensure the needs of diverse learners are matched and high expectations are being met. It is my belief that students are most successful when a sound action plan, based on performance data, is developed and pushes them towards mastery of material.... As a professional, educating and advocating...

...teacher, and I understand that every student has their own unique way of growing and of mastering skills. I have experience teaching a wide variety of literature and non-fiction texts and am very familiar with the Common Core and its emphasis on research skills. I especially enjoy teaching writing; I myself love to write and I teach students a clear process for approaching challenging essay assignments. Above all, I believe that learning should be meaningful...

...best way to learn a difficult to conquer subject is to discuss and talk through it with another student. Especially on a high school level, students tend to drastically overthink assignments or give up entirely based on the seeming overwhelming force of the pressure placed upon them between standardized testing, college applications, and more responsibility than they have had in their lives thus far. This mindset can be absolutely be a detriment to academic performance,...

...Brooklyn College and received my Bachelor's in Business Administration while completing my premedical requisites. I plan to take the MCAT and apply for medical school soon. In the future, I hope to be a pediatrician because I want to be a doctor and I love working with children. I currently reside in Brooklyn. My family consists of my parents and two younger sisters. I came from Bangladesh to the United States when I was three...

...independently working on a linguistics project for over a year now involving the Afro-Asiatic language family (which includes Semitic languages such as Hebrew), and I am applying to graduate school in the field this fall. I've always loved Biology and while in college I did research both in the fields of Molecular Plant Biology and Neurobiology. I have two cats, a fish, and a turtle. In my free time I enjoy painting, drawing, playing saxophone,...

...began in middle school, where I worked with a sixth grader on math, and continued up through college, where I volunteered at an after school tutoring program for kids in an underserved community. A language nerd, my favorite subjects to tutor are French and English writing skills, but I am equally confident in SAT and ACT test prep and math, science, history, and other subjects at the high school level. Beyond just helping improve students...

...this passion as a New York City per diem and permanent substitute teacher for the past three months. My other related experiences range from being a summer camp counselor for over 6 years, past phonemic and reading tutor, and a Resident Assistant for high school students at a summer boarding school. I am an extremely positive, energetic, friendly, and encouraging teacher to my students, and seek to share these attributes with other students through tutoring....