I have four valid California Single-Subject Credentials in English, history, French and Latin, as well as the Multiple-Subject Credential for elementary school. I have just retired as a 22-year veteran in middle school and high school. I have served on Writing Testing committees within my school district, both scoring tests and writing prompts for testing. I have administered Princeton-based tests in my younger days through UCLA. With the 2010-2011 school year, Mr. P celebrated his twentieth year as a teacher with the Alameda Unified School District and twenty-two years in the profession, h [more]
I tutored students for the ISEE for 5 years through a test preparation company. I understand and have worked successfully with students of this age. I understand the focus of this test and have administered practice tests with all of the students I have tutored. I've worked only with the verbal/language arts/English portion of this test. I love clear, concise and effective language, whether it be written or spoken. When a message is clearly conveyed verbally or in writing, the language just zings! That's why I have worked with passion and excitement over the past 25 years as a teacher, tutor, [more]
I currently am helping students prepare for the ISEE and the SSAT. The focus of our work is on vocabulary, sentence completion questions, analogies, reading comprehension strategies, and preparation for the essay component. I greatly enjoy working with students, having tutored, taught, and coached students for the past thirty years. My degrees are from Harvard College (B.A.) and the University of Chicago (M.A., Ph.D.). During the past ten years I have tutored for Wyzant, and several other tutoring services. I have taught at elementary, middle, high school, and college levels. When [more]
I have tutored students for ISEE prep for the past five years. I have tutored extensively Lower, Middle, and Upper levels. I have successfully tutored 14 students in ISEE who were then accepted to their first choice independent school. I have 7+ years of experience teaching in public, charter, and independent schools in Texas. I have taught 5-8 middle school science, and have a Texas Teaching Certificate in EC-4 Generalist and Science 4-8. I have privately tutored for the last five years including math, science, and ISEE prep. These are the subjects I have tutored Math: Middle School Math G [more]
ISEE prep, more than any other test prep, must be adapted to the age and aptitude of the students. I have worked with one student, a 4th grader, on ISEE prep, but I believe that my experience doing ACT and SAT prep would be more applicable to an older student. Striving for an top-notch test score, or mastering math and physics classes, can be daunting and frustrating. Sometimes a teacher doesn?t explain the material well, or abstract concepts don?t quite click. That?s why I bring patience and a positive attitude to my tutoring. I use a technique of offering multiple explanations for each conce [more]
I have worked with a number of students on their ISEE exams. Not only have they performed well, but I have watched them go on to succeed at a number of fantastic schools. I am well-versed in the format as well as a number of test-taking strategies that will provide a bump in their scores. Tutoring is something I fell into in high school, and I haven?t stopped since. I started out by helping friends and other classmates; however, in college, it became my unofficial part-time job - one that paid in fantastically edible, non-cafeteria meals. By the time I was in grad school, it evolved into a [more]