Award-Winning Tutors serving Pleasantville, NY

...academic and professional careers, I have always enjoyed mentoring younger individuals through activities like tutoring and advising. During my undergraduate career at Cornell University, I served as an orientation leader and student adviser for classmates in my major. While pursuing my MBA at Columbia Business School, I participated in the Harlem Tutorial Program, where I...

...having difficulty in the subject and explain to them how I would try to overcome any mental block. I also try to understand the best way they learn so that I can approach them in a way that best suits their needs. Every student is different and everyone's needs are just as different. I make...

...taught at a preschool called The Goddard School where I taught ages 2-4 years old. I created lesson plans to help develop their cognitive development/math skills, sensory/motor skills through creative art and language arts. They performed hands-on activities as well as through music/movement. They also learned about science and nature. I love being a tutor...

...accomplish this by providing the student with note-taking and text-reading skills which allow them to focus on the pertinent information and then discuss conceptual frameworks through which the information can viewed. My prior experience with education has been supporting fellow students at the college level. I've helped others come to grips with difficult concepts in...

...a graduate from North Carolina State University with a BS in Animal Science. I have been a tutor for 7 years at the elementary school, middle school, high school and college level. During my undergraduate career, I became a Master Level III Tutor under the CRLA's Tutoring Program. I am a dedicated, hard working individual...

...secondary school in South Africa, I did a PG year at a high school in Connecticut. During my year in Connecticut, I took Honors and AP Chemistry, Honors and AP Physics, and Honors Calculus; I also received the CollegeBoard AP Scholar with Honors Award. I have experience tutoring the New SAT. I understand the material...

...a results-oriented college student (Human Geography and Sociology) and certified Teachers Assistant, currently attending Kennesaw State University. During the course of my academic career, I also managed to accrue nearly 8 years of work experience. I had the privilege of working for Rainbow Apparel in a Ecommerce assistant role in my free time, where I...

...a graduate from C.W.Post. I received my undergraduate degree in Childhood education. I received my master's degree in Literacy. I have been an elementary school teacher for the last eighteen years. I have taught grades first through fifth. I love helping my students prepare for the state exams. When I am not teaching, I enjoy...

...really understand the world. With such an information overload, who are we to believe? The only way is to develop a full background, with multiple viewpoints, and then to develop one's own opinions. My approach is to study history from a conceptual framework, rather than chronological, to fully understand how the ideas of other times...

...childhood, I found it necessary to sign up for tutoring in order fully comprehend the difficult subjects in school and outside. I attended SHSAT, SAT, and MCAT test prep, and have benefited greatly. After years of benefiting from tutoring myself, I've amassed a set of interpersonal skills that are essential to effectively explaining complex concepts...

...I said. He nodded and laughed giddily, clapping his hands. My heart burst with the joy and satisfaction of being able to restore Anthony's confidence, of giving him the hope to march onwards in his struggle to learn. That day I learned what teaching was all about- giving students the confidence that they can learn....

...my Master's Degree from Adelphi University in Elementary/Special Education. I worked for the New York City Department of Education for 14 years as a special education teacher in a K-5 school in a collaborative setting, a self-contained setting and a resource room setting. I retired in July of 2020 and want to continue helping students...

...from Holland and moved to Bridgeport, CT in 2004. I graduated from the University of Bridgeport with a Masters Degree in Education and taught at the Bridgeport Hope School as a fifth grade teacher. I was also involved in the after school tutoring program. I am very interested in helping students excel in math (up...

...graduated with my Bachelor degree in Early Childhood Education with a concentration in English and a certificate in Spanish Translation. I am currently working at an Elementary school as a building sub where I get to teach a wide range of students. Up until this point, I have worked in various roles in the childcare...

...moved to New York, NY after graduating at the top of my class from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy NY! At RPI, I received my BS in Computer Systems Engineering. Before college, I was valedictorian, got 5s on a variety of AP exams and achieved a 99+ percentile SAT score. Right now I'm a web...

...currently a clinical psychology doctoral student at Long Island University in Brooklyn. I am also a graduate of Georgetown University (B.A. in Sociology), Fordham University (M.A. in Sociology), and The New School (M.A. in General Psychology). Promoting education is really important to me. During and after college, I spent much of my leisure time working...

...was growing up my parents often commented that I should go into accounting. A strange thing to say maybe, but seeing as I kept a balance sheet for my piggy bank since the age of ten and you can see why. Logic, analytical skills and attention to detail are three important attributes you need to...

I love being able to help people understand subjects and material they are not familiar with. Especially if I can make the material more engaging and interesting.

...is that for the most part, once you learn any material (and I mean really learn it), you are more often than not going to remember it for the rest of your life. I sometimes surprise myself with the things I still remember from my math classes in the past. I think the main reason...