Award-Winning AP English Literature and Composition Tutors serving Columbia, MO

My first experiences with tutoring were during high school through a program called A+. This opportunity led me to share knowledge with peers and younger who can easily gain so much when catered to them personally. Thanks to this previous experience I found a love of teaching, which has led me to become an aspiring...

...of his/her success. It's not my goal to make students know as much as I do about English; instead, my goal is to help them understand why it is important for them to know some of it. Whether it's syntax or Shakespeare, even the most disinterested or unmotivated student can walk away knowing some ways...

I am a recent graduate of the University of Missouri, with majors in journalism (print and digital news editing) and German. I also have a minor in psychology and a certificate in multicultural studies. While in college, I spent two years working at the Columbia Missourian; I worked as a reporter, copy editor, community outreach...

...politics, with an especial emphasis on East and West Germany in the 1970s. However, I have also worked closely with artworks produced long-before the 20th-century. I have co-curated exhibitions on Renaissance print-making, Impressionist painting, and 19th-century American drawing. Additionally, I have presented and published research on medieval manuscripts, Afrofuturist design, and German photography.

...experience as a student is what I believe makes me an excellent tutor, as I have been where the student is and understand the challenges. I am currently studying plant biology at university, so I'm constantly exposed to and learning more about the subject. The ACT science section is one of my strongest tutoring subjects;...

...learning styles of each individual is an adventure that I love. Finding the best way to reach you based on your interests, strengths, and weaknesses is both challenging and fun. It keeps me vitalized and fascinated, eager to learn more about you and the subject under discussion. I love art and animals (notably cats and...

My name is Perla. I am a certified master tutor. I have three years of experience tutoring in both English and Spanish. My native language is Spanish. I have a Bachelors and Masters Degree in English Composition. My focus in the field of English composition is on the organization of ideas, essay structure, and ESL...

Hello! My name is Danielle. I'm excited to work with you to help you learn to the best of your potential!

...to dramatically expand my understanding of different cultures and people, and it has been a non-stop learning opportunity. It has also been a school in excellence and perseverance. Recently I’ve been working on a photographing and writing a book about my experiences traveling with one of the last traditional circuses in America while raising my...

I'm an experienced teacher of English literature, history, and the other humanities. I also have extensive experience teaching standardized test prep. My pledge to you is to work with you to better understand whatever it is that is giving you difficulty -- or to maxmize your score on that standardized test.

I've tutored extensively in individual and group settings. While in college, I worked for a local high school tutoring groups of students through the AVID system. At the same time, I also tutored an individual who was failing four out of his five core classes. In three classes he had less than a 40%, and...

I'm a college instructor with 15 years of teaching and tutoring high school and college students in writing, reading, literature, gender studies, and history. With a PhD in English from UMass Amherst, I have expertise in many forms of writing as well as what it takes to succeed in college and graduate school. I have...

Hello! I hope to meet you soon in a tutoring or learning session. I'm interested in you, your ideas, and where you want to go as a student. I have lots of teaching experience in many different areas, but no matter the subject, I always like to help students learn how to better express their...

...they were considered to be at the same level that did not necessarily mean that my lesson plan would work for everyone in that group. I also tutored these same students and others after school and that was often where I got to know them as students the best. I just think it is really...

I have taught intellectual property law for the past two years and SAT preparation for the past 10 years. I am a great tutor because not only are my fundamental verbal and quantitative skills strong, but I am able to communicate my reasoning and problem solving skills quickly and clearly.... My teaching philosophy is to help empower students to stay calm and use what information they know to arrive at the correct answers on tests through...

...than the reasoning used to reach said response. I honestly believe that anyone can learn anything given enough time and patience. I try my best to not only be a teacher but also a role model to my students and to interact with them as people not just clients. Most importantly, I believe that being...

I have been teaching 18- to 22-year-old students at the college level since 1995. I love imparting to them my own passion for the English language and its literary heritage, from Chaucer through our best 21st-century writers. I am particularly absorbed by the history of fiction, drama, and poetry in English, and I hope to...

I am an instructor, avid reader, and creative thinker with lots of experience in the university classroom setting. I attended Swarthmore College and have received a handful of fellowships for postgraduate research, including a US-UK Fulbright Award and a Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship. My areas of competency include English, Art History, Rhetoric, Spanish,...

...sense of personal calm. In fact, I love the entire college application process because I think of it not as an opaque, mysterious world of judgment behind closed doors, but as the first opportunity in a student's life to find the perfect fit. The combination of test scores and personal statement should be seen as...

I am a teacher of writing and literature with two Masters from Salem State University, one in English and one in Teaching English. I currently teach high school English, although I am a former biopharmaceutical engineer. I love rhetoric, writing pedagogy, digital composition, and feminist critical theory. My favorite subjects to tutor are writing and...