Award-Winning Tutors serving The Hollow, CT

...Turkey. During my time in Turkey, I worked as an SAT and TOEFL tutor with high school and college students. While I am comfortable tutoring a broad range of subjects, I am the most passionate about history, reading, and writing. As a former Managing Editor for a tech company, I understand how vital reading and...

...all facets of the subject, and have always been gifted at helping pass that understanding onto my students. I also tutor subject tests, such as the SAT, ACT, and AP tests, and can give my tutees a feeling of true confidence when they sit down to take those exams. I have found that the biggest...

...clear guideposts of what to expect at every step of the lesson. This both motivates the learner toward a clear goal and reduces their anxiety. I also know that students have different brains that respond to different methods, and I optimize the student's learning styles to accelerate their learning process. For example, I incorporate music...

...have tutored for the exam and am eager to share everything I have learned in how I brought my score up. I know which subjects are 'high yield' and which can be brushed over. I have a very good sense of how to help my students structure their studying and I will work with them...

...shown great improvements in a variety of subjects, from SAT, SHSAT and Regents prep to Calculus, Physics, and Geometry. I specialize in mathematics, however, my writing and reading comprehension skills are of an equally high level. Having achieved top scores on both the SAT and SHSAT, along with various regents tests, I know what it...

...been recognized by the University of Pennsylvania for my writing ability and am employed at our Critical Writing Center. Here, I advise both undergraduate and graduate students on their academic and professional writing, editing and proofreading for grammar, logical coherence, and persuasiveness. I love my job at the Writing Center and enjoy the one-on-one time...

...of the difficulty I've seen students have stems from frustration, and so for me focusing on taking a step back to concepts students are comfortable with, and then helping them build towards a solution to challenging problems on their own is the best way to not only help people learn, but also get them to...

...in the Credit and Market Risk team to develop and deploy regression models for measuring credit spreads, alongside building tools in R and Python to better allow my team to utilize my code. I have passed five actuarial exams (P, FM, IFM, STAM, and SRM), and will be taking LTAM this fall.

...entrust to look over and critique their papers before they submit final drafts. My teaching style features visual learning, mnemonics, and hierarchical organization of material. I find that hierarchically cataloguing information by topic and sub-topic helps students retain material, as students are not simply memorizing, but are understanding how concepts relate to one another. More...

I am a recent graduate from the University of Virginia with degrees in Spanish and Global Development Studies and a passion for literature and the arts. I couldn't be more excited to help New York area students thrive as I navigate my first few months in this incredible, swirling city.... I primarily believe in my students' intelligence and capacity to solve problems. Sometimes they need a supportive voice -- someone who can answer their questions and...

...feel that I would be a great choice of a tutor. My experience and success as a private tutor make me a credible candidate. From September 2009 – Present, I worked as a private tutor for High School Chemistry, Math, and College Chemistry. During this time, I worked to help all of my students pass...

...intervention and enrichment, motivational interviewing and coaching, standardized exam preparation. Graduated with a Master of Fine Arts in Writing from California College of the Arts (2017) and a Bachelor of Arts in English from CUNY Baccalaureate at Hunter College (2013, Cum Laude). Currently a National Teaching Fellow with Citizen Schools in Brooklyn, NY.

...educate peers on curricular and co-curricular studies. Sharing my love of reading and writing is a great thrill of mine and I feel honored to get such an opportunity to do so. In terms of academia, my dual degree lent me the chance to hone my communications skills (I now work full time at a...

...occasions that I am an intelligent person and have an ambitious personality. My ambition in life is to become a respected mentor and educator. Personally I am willing to participate in any activity that will broaden any chance of making my ambitions become a reality. Therefore I understand the importance and difficulty of making my...

...their own passions lie. This could be as elemental as applying their interests to whatever it is they are studying, be it finding literary bits about ancient sport to practice Latin grammar or envisioning the perfect essay in relation to a perfect layer cake. My students have ranged from the pre-K to university levels. For...

...believe that anybody can do well in a certain subject if they understand the concepts thus making learning easier and fun. My aim is to help my students understand mathematics and show them the beauty through real life applications as well as critical analysis. I hope to spark their interest and build on it thus...

...I am now teaching Level 1 and 2 Spanish at the high school level. Having slowly shifted from preschool to elementary/middle school to high school has granted me the opportunity of learning how to assist students of various ages, levels, learning styles and subjects. I am currently in the process of attaining my certificate in...

...school to college level) and standardized testing (SAT, SAT subject tests, PSAT, and SSAT). I have tutored mainly high school students in the New York State Regents exams and AP Calculus, although I also have experience with students in middle and elementary school. Since I have been through many school systems, including public, private, studying...

...writing and grammar skills, two areas in which I feel I am naturally proficient. Throughout high school and college I was my friends' go-to girl for essay help. I am also a native Spanish speaker and feel very comfortable tutoring levels 1 through 3. I believe that education is one of the key parts of...

...nearly as long-- I have tutored one-on-one but I have also taught writing to elementary school, middle school and college students and I have also coached baseball for well over a decade. These years of experience means I not only know how to write and teach writing, I know how to educate and motivate kids.