"TUTORING FOR DIGITAL SAT! New to Wyzant, but not new to tutoring! I am a highly experienced, nationally-recognized teacher, awarded numerous state and national awards, and a National Merit Finalist for my top P/SAT scores. I absolutely love helping my students reach their reading and writing goal scores on the PSAT, SAT, and ACT! I use a very personalized approach to helping my students crack the reading and writing sections, learning a specialized set of my "attack strategies," based on the structure and assessment patterns I have seen in the exam tasks and questions. I model my thinking, so my students can learn how to think like the nation's top 1% of exam scorers. I teach my students key strategies, model them, apply them, and have my students practice using them on many curated samples. Moreover, I design a personalized study plan, including practice assignments based on my assessment of their needs and growth. I track my students' speed and accuracy with practice sets of increasing difficulty, and I use this data to adjust and calibrate my instruction, practice tasks I assign them, and individualized coaching, based on each student's unique growth trajectory and needs. Building my students' self-efficacy and confidence is of paramount importance to me. I want my students to find their inner-genius, as I deeply believe it exists in all of my students. I also enjoy tutoring AP Human Geography and European History. In fact, I am the author of widely-sold AP study textbooks-- namely the REA "AP Human Geography Crash Course" and Sparknotes' "AP European History Power Pack." To help my students earn 5s, I use my own set of study resources I have written and curated practice questions. I pride myself in creating a rigorous and friendly learning environment for my students to gain admission to prestigious universities, which I know how to navigate (I received my doctorate from the top-ranked Vanderbilt University). I have tutored for most of my 20+ year career." less...