Algebra 1 and Elementary Math tutor

About Angela

Hello! My name is Angela and I have been a writing tutor for almost two years. I have experience mentoring young students through the college application process, as well as instructing college students on essay writing, resume writing, and professional writing. I am working towards my Master's Degree in Teaching English, and in the meantime want to accumulate more experience doing what I love most: teaching! I love tutoring because I get to share my knowledge and passion for learning while helping someone who may be struggling with that topic. I want to make my students better writers, readers, and thinkers, because these are skills that will never be useless in one's future professional and educational journey.

I had been a Writing Consultant at Manhattan College’s Center for Academic Success (CAS) from January 2017 until graduation in May 2018. Through our intensive training hours before each semester, I learned different tutoring strategies that have proven successful through my positive reviews from my students at the CAS. These strategies include a “hands-off” tutoring approach, where I (the tutor) put the complete control of ideas into the student. This allows the student to view their writing and their work material as a valid, legitimate piece of writing or information, so they can gain satisfaction from developing their own arguments and ideas. As a tutor, this means I can focus on the technical issues of their argument, sentence structure, grammatical errors, etc. I successfully completed a one-credit course in tutoring pedagogy, which earned me the Level 1 Title from the CRLA Standard (https://www.crla.net/images/ITTPC/ITTPC_Standards_Outcomes_Assessments_Level_1.pdf).
I saw roughly twenty students per twenty-hour workweek, and more than half of these students were ESL/International students.

At my brief position as a writing mentor at Manhattan College’s Summer Literacy Institute this past July, I was fortunate enough to help high school seniors from the five boroughs write their college essay. I worked one-on-one with about nine different students in my small group with an additional mentor. I also learned how to better engage my students from my group’s writing teacher, who is also my former employer at the CAS. This week-long opportunity taught me how to better help students that are specifically attempting their college essays, and it also made me more aware of the college admission process and educated me on what colleges are looking for in an applicant’s essay. Giving students a toolkit to succeed allows them to develop their own practical skills in order to form their own strategies in their academic ventures. Students are unique in their approach to schoolwork, and even the most uninterested student feels satisfaction when they succeed. My experience will allow me to share my own skills to contribute to students’ toolkits, as well as help them mold their own methods of learning and growing.

I am friendly, softspoken, and also have struggled with math in the past! I know how frustrating it can be to not understand, and I am good at explaining algebra so it makes sense to young people that find it so intimidating.

I graduated with a 3.6 GPA from Manhattan College in Riverdale, NY, with an English GPA of 3.8. I have taken extensive writing classes with great success. I have been published in the school's literary magazine four times, and was Editor-in-Chief my senior year. Additionally, my sophomore year I was awarded a $3,000 grant to conduct literary research and write a 35-page paper exploring feminist and queer theory in science fiction/fantasy literature. I was published in our student-run academic journal as well for my paper on Victorian poetry, and I have been nominated three times for a fiction writing award and won the award my sophomore year. I know how to properly structure an argumentative essay, conduct extensive research, and I am familiar with the college application process and what colleges are looking for in their applicants.

If you need help in grammar/middle school math and English, as well as English in high school, college, or whenever else you need reading and/or writing skills to be shaped up, please do not hesitate to contact me! I offer my first session at a discounted rate, so there's no reason not to schedule with me to see what I'm all about. I love learning and I love teaching, and I am so looking forward to learning with you.