Award-Winning Summer Tutors serving Essex County, NJ

I am currently working towards a Bachelor's of Arts in History, focusing on historiography, specifically Sovietology. I tutor all the humanitarian topics, including the SAT verbal and writing, English, essay composition and editing, world and U.S. history, and the whole spectrum of the REGENTS test. I like to break things down to their fundamentals and learn from the bottom up, so that it's easier to see how all the pieces of a topic fit together....

...needs. These experiences have helped me to become the balanced and caring educator I am today. My strengths include strong problem-solving skills, proactively assessing my classroom and students, creativity in motivating various types of learners and being flexible in various situations. I enjoy creating lessons that bring a multi-sensory approach to learning and accommodate students' varied learning needs. When preparing lessons, I take into account what motivates my students, what their interests are, learning styles...

I am a graduate of the College of William and Mary 2014 with a B.A. in Linguistics and History. Currently I am a M.A./Ph.D student in Linguistics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. My current research deals with how language is used and how understanding can change in differing contexts, for example how people define what counts as a lie, and how our brains process emojis. At the University of Illinois, I've taught several...

I am a recent medical school graduate excited to spend extra time teaching and tutoring other students. I know how important it was for me to meet the right mentors along the way to college at Yale and to medical school at Stanford, and I would love to help mentor you along your journey, too! My hobbies include: running, take spinning and cardio kickboxing classes, listening to RadioLab and This American Life, and cooking.... Every student...

...strongly that every young child or adult has the potential to create positive changes for his or her community, and that it sometimes takes a positive experience with learning and education to inspire him or her. I'm willing to, and am eager to, work with students in various ways in order to suit their needs most appropriately. Most importantly, I'm always excited to inspire the quest for knowledge in any one I am fortunate to...

I am a New York State teacher certified in Elementary Education, Spanish and ESL. I received my Bachelor's degree from State University of New York, Cortland, and my Master's degree from Adelphi University. I have been teaching and tutoring for over 8 years for children, adolescents and adults. Besides being bilingual in Spanish, I am also conversational in Italian. I love to travel and learn about other cultures. I even had the unique opportunity to...

...classes required a great deal of writing. My Humanities students had short weekly essays for the small 'writing section' and longer essays for the primary texts. My English students, meanwhile, were required to write independent theses on literary works of their choosing. I enjoyed helping my students to conceive, compose, proofread, and revise these essays. At Portsmouth Abbey, I learned that a teacher must make every effort to enter a student's intellectual world, to meet...

I will graduate from Seton Hall University come May 2016 with a B.S. degree in Secondary Education and English, a Minor in Music, and an Information Technology Certificate. I tutor reading, writing, MLA citation formatting, college essay writing, thesis and research paper writing, grammar, and punctuation. I have several years of 1-1 tutoring experience as an academic tutor at my university's Writing Center and as a substitute teacher in grades K-12. My favorite subject to...

...my students immerse themselves in the language both in and out of school. Secondly, I tutor elementary and middle schoolers in English, Math and test preparation. I have experience leading after-school classes as well as one-on-one tutoring at learning centers and private homes. I have had students from all different backgrounds and levels of proficiency, including many children of immigrants. I emphasize study skills and test taking strategies, and love seeing a student's eyes light...

...is, and then I adjust my teaching style accordingly so that they can understand the material with confidence. In addition to tutoring, I have also given presentations and training to other colleagues in my career. Furthermore, at the church I attend, I have taught Sunday school to children in elementary school and Bible Study to high school students and college students. In my spare time, I enjoy working out, reading, listening to music, watching movies,...

...to Chile in South America, where I worked for a year as a volunteer English professor at the college level in coordination with World Teach, based out of the Harvard Center for International Development. I extended my stay in Latin America to nearly two years by serving as a field director for World Teach, training and supervising new volunteers. While there, I also teamed with Chilean educators at the Universidad Catolica to develop a national...

...have worked in IT industry for 20 years. I have taken different roles such as Software Engineer, Developer, IT consultant, System Administrator, DBA, Software Designer, System Architect, Solution Architect with fortune 500 companies. I always love teaching and love sharing my knowledge with students, no matter if it is in the classroom, in the community or around the world. I do online tutoring for Computer Science and Mathematics, and start teaching at University of Phoenix...

I attended St. Lawrence University in Canton, NY and graduated May of 2012 with a Bachelors in Liberal Arts. I majored in Multi-Language (Spanish, French & Mandarin) and minored in Communications. Personally, as a language student myself, I completely understand the struggles and frustrations that come when learning a language for the first time. It can become difficult to understand or comprehend, which then causes the student to shut down making it harder to...... In a...

I'm a former high school math teacher that taught Algebra 1, Algebra 2, Geometry, Advanced Math, and ACT prep in New Orleans public schools from 2012-2015. I currently teach ACT and SAT prep classes for Princeton Review, as well as SHSAT classes for students applying to specialized high schools in New York. In my spare time, I am captain of a 30-person kickball team that doesn't win many games, but has a lot of heart,...

I am a Wake Forest University graduate with a degree in Psychology, and I am currently pursuing a career as a physical therapist. I have over 5 years of tutoring experience with students ranging from elementary to college level, tutoring math, reading, writing, and science. I have also had experience tutoring the SAT, as well as helping high school juniors and seniors with their college application process and essay writing. Throughout the years I've been...

Little did I know becoming an educator would be more than a career choice; it became a time for my own character education. The years I served as a classroom teacher were as much about me learning as they were about instructing others. Since then, my commitment to support the development and self-improvement of others has not wavered. Ten years as a public school teacher equates to approximately 2,000 students and was a pivotal time...

...has a different learning style. I try to discover what methods work best for each student I tutor, and I tailor my teaching style to that particular student's needs. In addition to mathematics and puzzles, music is a large part of my life. In my free time, I write music. I play the guitar and banjo, as well as read and write poetry. Since graduating, I have been working as an intern at a recording...

I am a civil engineer currently working in Manhattan, NY and have recently graduated from Cooper Union with a degree in civil engineering. I have over five years of professional tutoring experience in standardized tests, mathematics of all levels, physics, and more. I strive to make learning fun, comprehensive, and engaging. My method is to ensure that students understand the fundamentals and gradually progress to more challenging problems to provide students with a complete grasp...

Originally from Southern California, I graduated this May from Yale University where I completed a double major in French and the History of Art. While at Yale, I was a student curator at the Yale University Art Gallery and president of Yaledancers. I also worked as an Editorial Assistant at the Gallery and was active in numerous other dance groups on campus. I studied abroad in Paris during the fall of my junior year where...

My name is Sherry and I currently have my graduate degree in Social Sciences with a background in healthcare, data science, data management, statistical models. With over 8 years of experience teaching elementary, high school, undergraduate and graduate students, I specialize in tutoring many subjects, mostly in the humanities and social sciences. I also tutor in Mandarin Chinese. As a native speaker in Chinese, I love to teach Chinese because the language relates to my...