Advanced Math
As a former advanced math teacher, Mrs. Patterson has over a decade of experience challenging and meeting the needs of high-achieving, gifted, and talented math students who crave more structure and academic rigor outside of their current school system. Through her formal training in Lindamood Bell’s On Cloud Nine math program, Mrs. Patterson is also able to meet the needs of those who struggle to understand the underlying concepts framing math operations. The team at Patterson Tutoring includes math and physics majors at Ivy League colleges, teacher aides and professors at various universities, and even those working in the professional field of mathematics and physics.
On Cloud Nine: Visualizing and Verbalizing for Math (Lindamood Bell)
Pre-Algebra, Algebra I, and Algebra II
Geometry, Trigonometry, and Statistics
Pre-Calculous, Calculus I, II, and III
Differential Equations and Linear Algebra
AP Physics I, II, and C
Early Reading and Literacy
As a certified Orton-Gillingham Associate (OGA) and a Wilson Dyslexia Practitioner (WDP), Mrs. Patterson has extensive training and experience implementing the OG approach to those with and without dyslexia. She has worked in some of the top Manhattan private schools as a reading specialist, helping students struggling with phonemic awareness to learn the foundational building blocks necessary to become proficient in early reading, spelling, and writing.
Prevention of Academic Failure Program (PAF)
Lindamood Phoneme Sequencing Program for Reading, Spelling and Speech (LiPS)
Wilson Reading System (WRS), including Fundations and Just Words
Academic Writing
Mrs. Patterson brings over 15 years of experience as a published journalist and copy editor, helping students develop their writing skills and perfect their ability to communicate. She works with young students who are learning the basics of sentence structure and paragraph development as well as college and graduate students who need assistance developing their thesis and research papers. In addition to working directly with students, Mrs. Patterson assists a variety of educational consulting firms along the East Coast and abroad as a copy editor for their clients’ admission essays. She pulls from a multitude of sources, including her formal training with The Writing Revolution, to customize writing programs for students in need of support.
Sentence Structure, Grammar, and Punctuation
Paragraph Development and the Five Paragraph Essay
Descriptive, Narrative, Persuasive, and Expository Writing
Boarding School, College, and Graduate School Admission Essays
Academic Research Papers and College Thesis Papers
Admission Test Prep
Mrs. Patterson brings over 15 years of experience as she helps student “crack the code” to reach their potential as standardized test takers. She works with a bevy of educational consulting groups to help students obtain the scores needed to gain acceptance into some of the top educational institutions. While her focus is on test prep for high school and college admissions, she has a team of impressive tutors who have the expertise and experience to assist in prepping for a multitude of graduate program admission tests.
SSAT and ISEE
SAT, ACT, and SAT Subject Tests
GRE and GMAT
LSAT and MCAT
Foreign Languages
Patterson Tutoring employs an impressive team of language specialists from a variety of countries and diverse backgrounds. From undergraduate language majors attending Ivy Leagues to seasoned professors teaching at universities, Patterson Tutoring proudly hires a team of talented linguists armed with innovative teaching techniques necessary for language acquisition.
Spanish, French, German, Russian, Dutch, Arabic, Mandarin, Hindi, Portuguese, Italian, Polish, and Japanese
English as a second language
AP Language Tests, GCSE, and TOEFL
Reading Comprehension
Mrs. Patterson’s background as a reading specialist renders her uniquely qualified to help not only those who struggle with decoding and encoding, but also those who have difficulty grasping concept imagery while reading, which is essential to ascertaining meaning. Her training and work with Lindamood Bell’s groundbreaking program “Visualizing and Verbalizing” allows her to help students grasp the “imaged gestalt.” She is particularly skilled at helping those who need better comprehension skills to set a foundation for higher-order thinking and literary analysis.
Visualizing and Verbalizing (Lindamood Bell)
Wilson Reading System
Reading A-Z, Headsprout