Award-Winning Tutors in Richmond Hill, NY

...to offer help in science courses from middle school to college level. I graduated from Boston College in 2009 and have worked at the neuroscience and psychiatry labs at Yale and Cornell. I enjoy working with people and wish to one day specialize in geriatrics. I have taught chess and English to young children and...

I'm a rising junior at Harvard College. I study African American Studies with a secondary in Women's Studies and I am pursuing a language citation in Spanish. I aspire to one day go to business school. When I am not doing work, I can typically be found reading, writing, or dancing.

...so even by rolling my pencil off of a table, I can easily demonstrate physics concepts to my students. For me, hearing "Oh, that makes so much more sense now!" from the students whom I tutor makes my job very rewarding because working with them to find the approach that best caters to their needs...

...learn more than basic information to repeat in a test: they begin to master the information and use it to approach new material with greater preparedness. I always want the learner's outcome to be a compoundable skill. For students learning to read and write better, I believe it's all about structure. There are simple constructs...

...helping people learn! I believe it is important to break material in to small, understandable pieces at first to help students not feel so overwhelmed. I understand that sometimes students just need to find new ways to look at the material when they are struggling to help them better understand the concept. One must be...

...the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. I received a perfect SAT Math score and was 2nd in my class in high school. I have four years experience tutoring freelance and 2 years teaching for a college prep company where I was the team's youngest tutor prior to Varsity Tutors. My would describe...

...degrees in English literature and philosophy from the University of New Orleans, and I have studied screenwriting and storytelling with some of the most notable instructors and practitioners in the field. My interest in philosophy and first-order logic led me to undertake the LSAT as a personal challenge. My first attempt put me in the...

...student comprehension by focusing on thought processes as well as the answer itself, ensuring that students follow a logical step-by-step progression when solving problems and maximizing their understanding of the topics at hand. I have experience tutoring at the high school and collegiate level through student organizations, university employment, and personal offerings.

...resilience to my students by adapting my approach to best meet the individual needs of the student. In addition to my aforementioned pedagogical toolkit, I am a passionate learner. WIth my varied educational, professional, and personal experiences, I am able to tutor in a variety of content areas. Through my graduate education and experience as...

...intuition for the material that came naturally to some. In order to compensate, when I found that mere classwork was not enough, I turned to online videos, external reading, extensive diagramming and other more flexible learning tools. As a result, Im indebted to those who taught me that many different and individualized tools exist to...