...I will usually start lessons off by teaching some content review through fun and interactive methods. Then, I like to expose my students to various practice problems to ensure that they understand the material and have the time to apply everything they learned. No student is the same, so I always spend hours coming up with personalized lesson plans for each of my students. (read more)
...Providing samples and ways for students to annotate text as they read helps aide with understanding and comprehension of the material provided. Most times, I will also provide examples of concepts we can do together. When I am tutoring various levels of Math, I provide strategies on how to solve the problem or word problem. (read more)
...I peer-tutored Arabic at the collegiate level for one year. I have completed Arabic through the intermediate level at Columbia university, and through the advanced level at Rutgers University. I can read, write, and and understand Modern Standard Arabic proficiently as well as speak fluently the Egyptian dialect. (read more)
...I can tutor a wide variety of standardized tests (SAT (scored 1580), ACT (never taken, but skills transfer well from the SAT), almost all STEM APs (got 5s in Calc, Statistics, Physics C, Chemistry, Biology, etc.)) and can teach computer science up to the graduate level, mathematics up to the high... (read more)
...I come from a family of writers--biographers, poets, novelists, historians and journalists. I grew up surrounded by books and writers. This instilled an enduring love of language and its beauty, complexity and precision. (read more)