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Tom N.

My method is personal, patient, informed

Hicksville, NY (11801)

Travel Radius 40 miles
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Einstein observed, things should be made "as simple as possible, but not simpler." And da Vinci: "Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication." I feel what best reveals one's character is how one treats children (and dogs). These together best sum up my teaching mind, philosophy, and method.

My teaching/tutoring credentials, in a nutshell, are: taught/tutored college and high school (United States); taught/tutored English to adults and children (United States, Brazil); tutored high school students and college graduates for the SAT, ACT, LSAT, GRE, DAT, ASVAB (United States); delivered public/private sector lectures and civil trials (United States); taught/tutored medical professionals (United States, Brazil).

My writing includes fiction/nonfiction, poetry, legal briefs.

It seems I singularly have four traits needed to teach/tutor: (1) loving to teach; (2) enjoying kids and people; (3) having a knack for making simple very complex conceptual matters; and (4) not being proud or formal, but rather simply down to earth.

Best of luck to all!

Tom's Subjects

Math:
  • algebra 1,
  • algebra 2,
  • geometry,
  • prealgebra,
  • precalculus,
  • SAT math,
  • trigonometry
Science:
  • anatomy
English:
  • English,
  • grammar,
  • literature,
  • proofreading,
  • public speaking,
  • reading,
  • SAT reading,
  • SAT writing,
  • TOEFL,
  • vocabulary,
  • writing
Test Preparation:
  • ASVAB,
  • bar exam,
  • GED,
  • GRE,
  • LSAT,
  • PSAT,
  • Regents,
  • SAT math,
  • SAT reading,
  • SAT writing,
  • TOEFL
Language:
  • German,
  • TOEFL
History:
  • American history,
  • government & politics
Elementary Education:
  • elementary math,
  • grammar,
  • reading,
  • spelling,
  • study skills,
  • vocabulary
Business:
Sports/Recreation:
Corporate Training:
Homeschool:
  • algebra 1,
  • algebra 2,
  • English,
  • geometry,
  • prealgebra,
  • precalculus,
  • reading,
  • SAT math,
  • SAT reading,
  • study skills,
  • writing

Study Skills

Armed with personal organizational skills and tenaciousness, as well as applied study skills (a strong work ethic received from my parents who did not study past the 8th grade due to economic exigencies), I excelled in high school (graduating number 13, in a class of over 1000) and thereafter was admitted to a highly selective university, on a full national scholarship, with graduation from same with a number of honors, including the Phi Beta Kappa key.

Chess

I have taught a number of children, one of whom at the age of eight played against the number two rated adult speed chess player in the world.

I have studied for over 40 years the styles and techniques and personal thoughts about chess and chess training held by grandmasters, world champions, and others.

I have played for over 50 years.

I have been a member or prestigious chess clubs and played at same.

I have transmitted all of the above experience...

Public Speaking

While in college I appeared in television interviews on various political issues then extant.

After graduation from college I gave public talks to senior citizens when I worked as a field representative in the public sector for the Social Security Administration.

As a trial lawyer, I tried a number of cases before juries and judges and successfully argued cases at all levels in the State of New York, including a seminal case to the highest court in New York. When I ran for... Read More

Bar Exam

I took and passed, with extremely high grades and each on the first sitting, the bar exam in NY,FLA,NJ and am consequently admitted to the bar in all three states.I took no other bar exams.

My scores on the bar exams were sufficiently high enough to qualify me for reciprocity admission in most states in the United States. I was once approached by a bar exam review course to teach the bar exam for them but declined due to travel considerations.

Regents

In high school my Regents exam scores in English, all math topics, and all sciences (biology, chemistry, physics) averaged well over 95. I learned the material sufficiently to home school my teenage son while we lived in Brazil, utilizing only books in those subjects written in Portuguese.

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