"I am a teacher and professor with 12 years of experience in NJ schools and 6 years at NYU and Montclair State University. As a high school teacher, I taught various sections of high school Mathematics and Science. I have passed the Praxis Mathematics Teacher certification exams with a Certificate of Excellence (top 15%) and hold two NJ valid standard teacher's certificates. I have also been awarded the Geraldine R. Dodge Fellowship Award for alternate route teachers.

I have been tutoring for SAT, ACT, GRE, and other standardized tests for many years. Besides a Ph.D. in Science (Physical Geography and Climatology) from the oldest and most prestigious university in Russia, Moscow University named after M.Lomonosov, I have an M.F.A. in creative writing, so I can teach both math and verbal sections of SAT, ACT, and GRE. I am an award-winning writer and poet, the author of nine collections of poetry and translations in Russian, and my English-Language manuscript is forthcoming in 2016 from a nationally recognized New York based press. I am also the editor as a major bilingual literary project and a co-editor of the first comprehensive English-language anthology of Russian Poetry, the award-winning volume that came out in 2015 the UK. I am one of those student-oriented teachers: my teaching is flexible, creative, and invariably focused on the individual student and his/her specific learning needs, and not on some rigid rules or practices.

I am certified to use the exceptionally effective WyzAnt Online Tutoring platform. Between WyzAnt Online Tutoring and traditional Skype, I can now tutor students from all states and all walks of life. Meet me once and you will see that I am YOUR teacher!

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