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A Message from Ken
Welcome! For the past 18 years, I have taught and tutored hundreds of public and private school students in New York City and the tri-state region. I believe that helping students to develop solid reading, writing and math skills requires hard work and dedication. I am committed to meeting every student at his or her own level of ability. My goal as a tutor is to motivate students to achieve academic success by preparing them for tests in school, standardized tests, and application essays for high school and college admissions — and to teach them how to enjoy the learning process.
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My Approach to Tutoring
- Builds confidence
- Reduces anxiety
- Improves study skills
- Establishes routines
- Encourages critical thinking
- Identifies areas in need of improvement
- Teaches relearning strategies
- Enriches preparedness
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- Inspires practice
- Leads to mastery
- Accounts for learning styles
- Deepens understanding
- Reinforces reasoning skills
- Strengthens writing
- Develops abstract thinking
- Widens perspective
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Objectives
Reading
- Expand vocabulary
- Understand words in context
- Attend to detail
- Make inferences
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Writing
- Understand writing as a process
- Present ideas clearly
- Apply grammar rules
- Use smooth transitions
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Math
- Perform basic math operations efficiently
- Use "mental math" appropriately
- Show appropriate steps in solving algebraic equations
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Test Prep
- Work quickly but carefully
- Check work thoroughly
- Maximize scores on the New York State Regents Examinations, ERBs/CTP 4, ISEE, SHSAT, PSAT, SAT, ACT, SAT Subject Tests & AP tests.
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Schools and Colleges
Under my tutelage, my students have attended, currently attend or have been accepted to the schools and colleges listed below.
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- Bank Street School for Children
- Bard High School Early College
- The Beacon School
- The Brearley School
- The Bronx High School of Science
- Brooklyn Technical High School
- The Calhoun School
- The Chapin School
- Collegiate School
- Columbia Grammar & Preparatory School
- The Dalton School
- The Dwight School
- Ecole Internationale de New York
- Eleanor Roosevelt High School
- The Fieldston School
- Friends Seminary
- High School of American Studies
at Lehman College
- Horace Mann School
- Hunter College High School
- LaGuardia High School
- Manhattan Country School
- Millennium High School
- The Nightingale-Bamford School
- P.S. 6
- Saint Ann's School
- The Spence School
- Stuyvesant High School
- The Taft School
- The Town School
- Trevor Day School
- Trinity High School
- United Nations International School
- York Prep
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- American University
- Brown University
- California Institute of Technology
- Carnegie Mellon University
- The University of Chicago
- University of Colorado at Boulder
- Connecticut College
- Cornell University
- Emory University
- Harvard University
- Goucher College
- Kenyon College
- University of Maryland
- University of Rochester
- Sarah Lawrence College
- SUNY Binghamton
- SUNY New Paltz
- Syracuse University
- Tulane University
- University of Vermont
- Washington University in St. Louis
- Williams College
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