Evan 's Bio

With new students I definitely try to gauge a student's personality upfront to see if they prefer a straightforward disciplinarian or a looser approach that incorporates humor. Or a balance between the two. Then I know how the lesson should run. If I'm helping someone who has already had a tutor or test prep in the subject I'm helping with I do ask questions such as "How is your teacher?" "What did you learn from your last tutor?" "What didn't you like about your last tutor (or teacher)?" I have no problem taking what worked from a prior tutor and incorporating it into my lesson. My main goal is to make sure the student is comfortable with whatever strategy or techniques they want to use in their subjects.

• Tufts University
• BA Child Development

• Taught math and SAT in-person with JEI Top Learning Center, Perfect Score Academy
• Huntington Learning Center, College Made Easy, ClubZ! 
• Volunteer tutor via COPAY (Great Neck, NY) and worked with youth at Buckley Country Day Camp (Roslyn, NY) and Leonard Carmichael Society (Tufts University)

“I want to start by saying this was the third SAT tutor we tried in a short time period to prep my daughter. The first my daughter felt moved too slow, and she recognized wouldn’t be of help after first session. Evan had 4 weeks to prep my daughter for SAT. She started out with a 1240. By her last practice test, she scored 1400. When it was time for the actual test, she said she found his tutoring so helpful. She mentioned there was a math problem she found difficult on actual test, she went back to it and remembered Evan did the exact type of problem with her and she remembered his words while solving it. She came out of SAT saying it was the easiest math section she ever had including all practices. She also mentioned when doing reading passages, he taught her a way to break down the passage and answer questions that was extremely helpful for the test. She feels he did an amazing job prepping her. She likes working with him and finds the sessions very helpful. Evan assigned homework which I felt took the pressure off of me to make sure she is preparing. He also set up quizzes based on what she needed guidance with. We highly recommend Evan.”