Experienced teacher supports student success in skill building
I have 40 years' experience working with students with special needs or needing extra academic support. Within the public school and privately, I have tutored in all subjects at the secondary and elementary level. I worked with private students for years or for the time needed for test preparation or support in a specific subject. I have worked privately doing independent tutoring, in the public school and in private school with students on the autism spectrum, with ADHD, with specific...
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The best decision we have made!
Pam has been working with our nine-year-old son for two months now and it is the best decision we have made for our son. Pam is very experienced and knowledgeable teacher. She personalizes every lesson based on the previous lessons and our aligned objectives. Pam is focusing on his writing and comprehension skills as well as on spelling and grammar. She was able to build a great connection and rapport with my son from the very beginning. He is looking forward to his lessons with Pam. We would highly recommend Pam for every kid who wants to improve their skills in English and writing and / or who wants to excel in it.
Snejina, 401 lessons with Pamela
The best decision we have made!
Pam is helping our daughter with SSAT prep and our son with ISEE prep. She always prepares her lessons in advance and has a great way of helping our kids get comfortable, assessing their strengths and working on their weaknesses. She is also great with essay prep. One of the hardest working people i know - She is the best!
Snejina, 401 lessons with Pamela
The best decision we have made!
Pam has been tutoring our son for more than a year now and has become a part of our family. He has progressed so much in vocabulary, reading comprehension and writing. Our 11 year old son loves working with her and is looking forward to his lessons with her. Thanks, Pam!
Snejina, 401 lessons with Pamela
Knowledgeable and patient tutor.
Pamela is very patient with her students. She is helping my son get caught up.in reading and writing. She has the background to help kids feel confident in what they know.
Seetha, 4 lessons with Pamela
Excellent tutor
There is really no need to further review Pamela. She’s above and beyond the rest. Her years of experience and dedication are self evident the moment you talk to her. My kid now gravitates towards her.
Armah, 7 lessons with Pamela
Would not read/evaluate my son's writing
I hired Pamela as a writing tutor for my fourth grader. We had roughly 10 sessions. She seemed pleasant and knowledgeable, establishing a reasonable rapport w/ my son. Over time, much of each session was wasted on readings, comprehension exercises, and in the last session, vocab overview and a mini-lecture on penguins. She was consistently not interested in reading/evaluating my son's writing. After I confronted her about it after the last session, I learned from her lesson review that she is quite upset that my son attends school part-time. From her last lesson review: "I am frustrated by the tutoring situation. I have no other student I know less about. You take him out of school or bring him late, an unusual practice. There has to be a reason the school allows this. . . . I have students with a range of special needs, and they all go to school full time. I have older students who have had therapeutic intervention, but reduced day was never allowed after the placement: home school or full day school. I don’t know what necessitates part time." I told her he attends school part-time up-front, and our sessions were partly during school hours. I wish she had just told me how much that reality bothers her, and I could just seek another tutor. Instead her final lesson review is the first time she mentions it. She did admit to not reading/evaluating his writing much in her lesson review: "I do not always get a copy of what he does, so I cannot evaluate the way I do with other students." She did not behave differently on the multiple occasions when she received a copy of what he wrote or took the original. I am glad to hear that she actually evaluates other students' writing. Apparently she is simply very angry that my son attends school part-time.
Rekha, 11 lessons with Pamela
Sweet and knowledgeable tutor
Our son is 6 years old, he has a speech problem which makes it very hard for him to learn to read. Pam has been so sweet and patient with him. She brings amazing support materials to make our kids learning experience enjoyable. He is finally starting learning his letters and the sounds of them. We are very happy to have Pam’s support.
Palmira, 102 lessons with Pamela
Very patient, reliable and knowledgeable tutor
Pamela has been one of the best tutors I have worked with. She is very patient and explains things very clearly. I have really enjoyed working with her on all my college assignments. I hope to be able to work with her in the near future.
Julie, 6 lessons with Pamela
Demonstrative Progress
Pam has tutored our 11-year-old son for 2+ years and during this time he has shown tremendous improvement in both spelling and writing skills. She understands how to work with his personality to get the best out of him. We are very pleased.
Paula, 180 lessons with Pamela
NOT at all good for AP BIO:
Her Bio on the website did not indicate that she would teach AP bio- so I never contacted her, she saw my request and reached out to me and said she can teach AP Bio. She has had great reviews, nothing for AP bio, but when she herself contacted me and said she is confident she can teach AP bio, I hired her. Despite me sending her the chapters and the book name ahead of time, she came unprepared and did not teach much in the first lesson. I gave her benefit of doubt and called her again, she knew we were on time crunch. We were making up for lost work as my daughter had been sick, she still did not come well prepared to accomplish the goals for that lesson (took ½ hour more than planned, yet we did not make much progress.) In my opinion, she is a nice person, good teaching style for elementary school kids, or kids who have special needs, very friendly but JUST NOT good for advanced level topics. My purpose to write this review is not to criticize her, but to help other parents like me to know that her expertise are not good enough for AP classes, and to be careful if she contacts them for AP classes. I felt a bit frustrated as we lost time (we only had finite time to make up missed work). In the end, Pamela can be a good teacher but not for AP Biology, I thought a lot before writing this review, but I believe that it is my duty to give this feedback, which may be helpful to fellow parents, it can save money but more importantly save time for the high-school kids. She has many good reviews and I am sure that are true for certain subjects and probably for younger kids. High school kids with AP subjects need tutors who are experienced and Pamela does not have the experience or resources to teach these subjects, specially AP Biology.
Dipti, 2 lessons with Pamela
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