Artem "Tioma" Maloratsky

Artem “Tioma” Maloratsky has over 25 years of experience teaching, tutoring, and mentoring, and over 12 years of experience with remote collaborative learning. He has worked with a wide range of students including both the high-performing and the learning-challenged. He combines fluency in the academic subjects with highly individualized approaches tailored to each student’s academic needs and learning style. A certified teacher, he has worked in a classroom setting, taught small groups, but has been focused largely on one-on-one instruction.

Tioma offers private tutoring in mathematics (elementary through college level calculus and statistics) and physics, with optional integration of mindfulness for improved academic focus and self-regulation. He also offers preparation for standardized tests such as SAT, ACT, ISEE, SHSAT, and AP Calculus. He has worked with students enrolled in top New York schools such as Stuyvesant, Collegiate, Dalton, Chapin, Brearley, Horace Mann, Trinity, Buckley, Browning, Trevor Day, York Prep, Friends, and Riverdale, as well as with college students at Binghamton University, George Washington University, and NYU.

The core aspect of Tioma’s approach is a high sensitivity to learning style and temperament of each student, an ability to continually adjust so as to create the experience of “flow” – an engaging and enjoyable learning experience – while seamlessly ushering in new skills. Over the years, Tioma has honed his skills in combining the remediation in fundamental skills with the necessary forward momentum in students’ present coursework. When appropriate, he is able to quickly create sets of custom-tailored practice exercises which help a student solidify skills on a given topic.

Highly individualized instruction has been of central interest to Tioma since he began working with the Experimental Study Group at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, teaching physics courses to small groups of MIT freshmen. After receiving a B.S. degree in Physics from MIT, he completed the joint MIT-Wellesley education program and taught high school mathematics and physics at Boston Latin Academy and at Coral Springs High School. After moving to NYC, Tioma returned to small group and one-on-one instruction, both independently and as part of Individual U – a unique organization that crafts highly individualized programs for children, teenagers, and young adults to boost academic performance and develop executive function skills.

Early on, Tioma recognized the value of the emerging field of mindfulness in education for increasing students’ attention and self-regulation. He became certified as an instructor by Mindful Schools, Inc., and integrated a mindfulness program into the curriculum of Individual U. While continuing his work with Individual U, Tioma joined Peak Year, Inc., which helped teenagers and young adults build skills crucial for a successful college experience. He has also worked with the Executive Function Center of New York, which focused more directly on the development of executive function skills based on the definitive work of Adele Diamond. At these two organizations, Tioma continued his work of combining academic instruction with mindfulness practices.

Tioma is a lifelong learner with a keen interest in developing both sides of the brain. He has been an adult student of the arts, which has given him a unique perspective on the deeper principles of learning and a highly intuitive approach to teaching. He is fluent in English, Russian, and Spanish.

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