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Rachel P.
Private tutor in Brooklyn, NY
Education
Brooklyn College: M.A. in Teaching English to grades 7-12, 3.97 GPA Teaching Certification: English Language Arts, grades 7-12 (New York State) Portland State University: B.A. in English, Music, University Honors, summa cum laude, 3.95 GPA University of Southern California: began B.M. in piano performance, English minor; transferred 2011
Experience
I currently tutor with Varsity Tutors and Wyzant and have also tutored privately over the past six years in English, ESL, music, piano, and writing. For two years, I taught English in a public high school and middle school in NYC, where I also scheduled regular tutoring sessions with individual students. In college, I worked in a high school writing center, taught music in two different after-school programs, and worked as a piano accompanist for children's choirs and middle and high school student performers. Even in high school, I worked as a peer tutor, in my church daycare, and as a pianist for other student musicians at my school and others. Basically, I've always loved working with children and young people of all ages. While education in general is important to me, I especially love working with students one-on-one and getting to know individual strengths and interests. So many students lose confidence because they see themselves as struggling with a subject, when actually the strengths they already have in other areas are helping them immensely! I love seeing students build that confidence and realize that they have it in them to excel. In addition to tutoring, I work as a freelance book editor and musician, so I'm surrounded by other professionals who excel in the fields I tutor as well. It's great to see the real-world application of ideas and skills that students learn in school or in tutoring sessions. I promise you, you're going to use more of these skills than you might expect! I hold a master's degree in secondary English education and have also taken undergraduate-level courses in teaching and tutoring writing. Relevant test scores: SAT Critical Reading: 780 SAT Writing: 740 AP English Language: 5 AP English Literature: 4 AP Spanish: 4 GRE Verbal: 165
Subject Expertise
10th Grade Reading, 10th Grade Writing, 11th Grade Reading, 11th Grade Writing, 12th Grade Reading, 12th Grade Writing, 1st Grade Reading, 1st Grade Writing, 2nd Grade Reading, 2nd Grade Writing, 3rd Grade Reading, 3rd Grade Writing, 4th Grade Reading, 4th Grade Writing, 5th Grade Reading, 5th Grade Writing, 6th Grade Reading, 6th Grade Writing, 7th Grade Reading, 7th Grade Writing, 8th Grade Reading, 8th Grade Writing, 9th Grade Reading, 9th Grade Writing, American Literature, AP English Language and Composition, AP English Literature and Composition, AP Music Theory, College Essays, Creative Writing, English, ESL/ELL, Essay Editing, Expository Writing, Fiction Writing, Homeschool, Honors, Introduction to Fiction, Introduction to Poetry, Kindergarten - 8th Grade, Literary Analysis, Literature, Music, Music Theory, Persuasive Writing, Phonics, Piano, Poetry Writing, Reading, SAT Critical Reading, SAT Verbal, SAT Writing, Singing, Summer Tutoring, Voice, World Literature, Writing