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Darryl J.

Private tutor in Leonia, NJ

Education

I graduated from Brandeis University cum laude in 2012 with majors in Economics and German Language & Literature. A change of heart led me to begin teaching, and as of May 2015, I hold Masters degree in teaching from Relay Graduate School of Education in New York, via the New York City Teaching Fellows program.

Experience

I taught at a gifted public school in Harlem for 2 years, focusing on Middle School mathematics. My licensure is for secondary math, which qualifies me for teaching positions from grades 7-12. My students at the school were a mixture of special education and accelerated students, meaning student abilities ranged from 2nd grade to 10th grade within a classroom. All students saw a year or more of growth. I left the position at my school to begin tutoring, because I wanted more balance in my life while continuing to pursue my love for teaching. If my test scores are in question: SAT: 780 math, 680 verbal, 750 writing AP: 5 Biology, 5 AP English (Composition), 5 AP Environmental Science, 4 Chemistry, 4 AP US History. For math, I completed through Calculus I in college and completed the course with an A-.

Subject Expertise

CLEP Principles of Microeconomics College Essays Economics Elementary Algebra Elementary Math Geometry Guitar Honors Chemistry Intermediate Algebra Intermediate Algebra CLEP Principles of Macroeconomics Pre-Algebra Pre-Calculus SAT SAT Critical Reading SAT Math SAT Mathematics SAT Subject Test in Biology E/M SAT Subject Test in Chemistry SAT Subject Test in Mathematics Level 1 SAT Subject Test in Mathematics Level 2 Algebra 2 11th Grade math 3rd Grade 4th Grade 5th Grade 6th Grade 7th Grade 8th Grade 9th Grade ACT Math Algebra 1 10th Grade math Algebra 3/4 AP Biology AP Calculus AB AP Chemistry AP German Language and Culture AP Macroeconomics AP Microeconomics Calculus 1 CLEP College Algebra CLEP Precalculus

Availability

Weekdays after 1PM, Weekends in the morning

Can Meet

Up to 25 minutes away for no additional charge

Hobbies

Students at my school could never quite get a feel about who exactly I was. On the one hand, I could laugh and joke with the kids - but as soon as we entered the classroom, I could go an entire period without breaking a smile. My lessons were very carefully structured, and I spent countless obsessive hours going through each lesson multiple times, reviewing, revising, re-formatting, and re-structuring them in order to make sure it would be the best possible way to convey a piece of information. I'm naturally an easy-going person, and I like to take everything with a laugh and a smile. When it comes to teaching, however, that is one area of my life where I've learned (through my own shortcomings and struggles) that I should expect nothing but the best from both myself and my students. And so, teaching became a passion! Aside from teaching, I write and record music. I've been writing music since I was 12 or 13, and it's been a mainstay in my life ever since!

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