About Mr. Jeffery

Thomas Jeffery has been in education for over 28 years as a teacher  and school administrator, currently an Assistant Principal at a successful Rockland County high school.

Mr. Jeffery, a motivational and mindful educational advisor and educational publisher, recently moved his expanding educational consulting/tutoring business to the historic Florida Village Professional Building. Mr. Jeffery, a Warwick resident and history buff, had been seeking a new Warwick location that would be rich in cultural and educational importance as an inspirational climate for learning and teaching. “It is inspiring to me just knowing that I am advising and tutoring in the hometown of Samuel S. Seward, the educational pioneer who in the early nineteenth century founded Florida's secondary (high) school directly across the street from our new classroom/office”, commented Mr. Jeffery. Florida Village has been very welcoming to this Warwick town business. Mr. Jeffery feels that the Florida business climate is very rewarding on all levels

“Florida, N.Y. was the boyhood home of William H. Seward, former Governor of New York, who as Secretary of State under Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson secured Alaska from Russia as a U.S. Territory, and also successfully thwarted foreign intervention during the U.S. Civil War. I am humbled by the honor to be in the Florida professional building, knowing it is in the same locale where Secretary Seward's father, Samuel S. Seward founded Florida's secondary school, and this building was also the Seward family home,” Mr. Jeffery continued, “One could only wonder what may have happened if the U.S.S.R. included North American territory during the Cold War. 'Seward's Folly' as the purchase of Alaska was dubbed at the time, has turned out to be no folly at all, as historians have long declared,” Mr. Jeffery stated.  He continued, "It is also great to be a stone's throw from Goshen, where Noah Webster, the creator of the famous dictionary, was a teacher/tutor."

“Nor is it foolish to seek some assistance from a patient educational planner and tutor”, asserted Mr. Jeffery, whose experience is hard to find among consultants or tutors. Tom Jeffery, through “Jeffery Educational Consulting”, strives to assist his students' families in a more comprehensive way. By getting to know the learner and his or her parents through tutoring sessions, he feels that once that young person has reached the final two years of high school, Mr. Jeffery can then make carefully-developed suggestions as to which colleges that student should consider attending. Mr. Jeffery also welcomes new clients who may be interested in college planning advice or in individual or small-group college entrance exam (SAT or ACT) preparation. Consulting or tutoring sessions are available in the professional building office, at local libraries or in the client's home. “A lot of Rockland and Orange County towns and villages are actually along my daily commute from Rockland,” Mr. Jeffery states. “Educational planning is tedious and time-consuming. The guidance counselor is the child's and family's best resource.  Coupled with that, I give additional support to parents as per the extensive family time involved in searching and applying for the right program, school, or edcuational experience”, Mr. Jeffery adds. Mr. Jeffery maintains a library of college catalogs in his office for families hiring his services to review, and notes that “For each person, there is a college or technical school program and the right one at that.”

Mr. Jeffery is a strong believer in alternative educational models as he has seen them work time and and again in his 28 years of experience as a professional educator, beginning his career for twelve years as a Math, Business, and Computer teacher teaching all levels of learners. He was then promoted to Evening Alternative High School Principal and High School Assistant Principal in his Long Island district and has been currently working for the past eight years as an Assistant Principal and International Baccalaureate Coordinator in a large Rockland County high school. “I am also a certified Social Studies teacher, which explains my fascination with history”, Mr. Jeffery added. Mr. Jeffery has a Masters of Business Administration from Baruch College, a Professional Diploma in Educational Administration from Dowling College, and his undergraduate work in Education from Brooklyn College, where he learned educational theory and practices and the content to teach Social Studies, Math, reading and writing, and to sometimes tutor in Science, as there is much reading and Math involved in Science. Although most of Mr. Jeffery's clients are families whose children attend public and private schools, Mr. Jeffery also advises homeschooling families and families considering homeschooling, to assist them in following the curricular guidelines, testing policies, and learning standards to legally home school in New York State. Reporting and assessment assistance for homeschooling families is one of Mr. Jeffery's specialties. The International Baccalaureate program which he brought to the high school where he works is alternative in its educational approach, as it requires teachers to teach using Howard Gardner's tenets that all students have “multiple intelligences”.

Mr. Jeffery's tutoring students are not just high-school age youngsters, but they have also been as young as elementary-school-aged, as that is when parents often first feel there may be a need for private tutoring. As a former Camp Director for Ten Mile River Scout Camps in Narrowsburg, NY and Camp Kalikow (Staten Island and Alpine, NJ), a residential camp for cub scouts and older boy scouts with special needs, Mr. Jeffery has experience with all ages of children, all attention spans, and all learning styles. Through teaching at his camp swimming and sailing to scouts of all ages and abilities, and through teaching Remedial Math to “struggling learners” as well as Advanced Math to “gifted and talented students” in both Brooklyn and on Long Island, Mr. Jeffery developed needed strategies and motivations for all types of learners that he still employs today. Mr. Jeffery also instructs adults, both online and in person, in job skills, such as the Math and computer skills (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.) necessary in the client's chosen profession.

Mr. Jeffery tutors adults and high-school aged students in CLEP test preparation for those seeking college credit without attending classes. A growing number of specific colleges, including some in the tri-state area give credits through CLEP exams. “This is necessary for some working adults, and for some homeschooling families who believe in continuing their mission as homeschoolers into the college years or helping their high-school aged homeschoolers get a "jump start" on earning college credits, and this could work for students attending public or private high schools as well”, Mr. Jeffery explained. “It is also way less expensive to earn credits towards a college degree in this way,” Mr. Jeffery contended. I also advise as to which colleges accept CLEP scores.

To find out more about the year-round, summer, and back-to-school services offered through Jeffery Educational Consulting, e-mail Tom Jeffery at  jefferyeducate@optonline.net or phone him at his Florida professional building location at (845)-651-6655. Mr. Jeffery will explain over-the-phone about his very reasonable rates. He clearly understands the needs we all have currently to keep prices low in this economy.

Mr. Jeffery believes all students, no matter their strengths or challenges, can find their school years (and college years) to be more rewarding than they ever imagined.