Award-Winning English Tutors in St. Louis, MO

Hello! Working with children and helping them become more confident in their academic challenge(s) is my passion. I teach at school everyday and excel at connecting with students and getting them excited to learn. This can happen for your child as well. It would be my pleasure to meet you and work with you to help your child be their very best!

...to found and direct a private school for under-performing students. In this capacity, I served as the principal of this small academy and tutored middle and high school students in English, Social Studies and Math. My passion is to see students master concepts and skills and develop into confident learners This confidence allows them to take on future challenging academic tasks with a belief that they can master what they must. I love being a...

...fluent in Spanish as well. I played football at Westminster and at Greenville and am currently coaching. In my free time, I enjoy learning about history, watching Star Wars, and cheering on my Cardinals and Blues. My philosophy of teaching is twofold; I want to create a safe environment where students can grow as critical thinkers. In other words, I don't want them to be afraid to make mistakes because that is the only way...

...and sophomore students. I have extensive essay writing experience at both the high school and college level. My writing has focused on literature analysis, quantitative research papers and admissions essays. As a member of the Washington University Admissions Interview Team, I have a wealth of knowledge about what colleges are looking for in a prospective student’s standardized test scores and personal essays. I hope to develop my students into critical thinkers that are able to...

...in my academic abilities because of this diagnosis, and so I hope to help other students realize that ADHD has nothing to do with intelligence. If anything, it gives us an edge! I believe any student can master any subject as long as they have the right instructor. My favorite subjects are math, science, psychology, and Spanish. I love good puns, swimming, cooking, and being outdoors. I can't wait to share my love of learning...

My name is Alex and I recently graduated from Westminster College with a major in Secondary Education and General Sciences and a minor in Spanish. I will be teaching high school Human Biology this coming school year. I have a lot of experience working with classrooms full of students and working one on one with students at a variety of ages. I look forward to getting to know all of my students and helping them...

...with just a few words. My passion for education is in large part due to the education I have been fortunate enough to receive. Now that I have worked with school systems that have fewer resources, I see the negative effects of a lack of individualized instruction. My aim during tutoring is to tailor my approach as much as possible for each student. Even if I have five students working on the same subject, their...

I love teaching Spanish! I have two sons in their early twenties. I am one of eight children. My mother was born and raised in Mexico, and my dad's parents were from Spain. That's how I learned how to speak Spanish. I also love teaching reading and writing!

...city of St. Louis for two years at North Side Community School. Missing the life of being an overseas educator, I secured a position in Seoul, South Korea at Korea International School in 2012. Yearning to learn more, I moved to Cairo, Egypt and took up a position as a first grade teacher at The American International School in Egypt in 2012. In the spring of 2016, I felt compelled to return to public education...

...This year I enjoyed volunteering with Americorps VISTA and teaching art and creative writing classes at Busch Middle School. Additionally, I'm a part-time nanny, and on weekends I enjoy playing and teaching the flute (which I also studied in college). I hope to become an English professor someday, and to this end, I'm starting a PhD program in English Literature in August 2015. I'm currently based in St. Louis, but will be moving to Charlottesville,...

...help students work through practice problems. For those interested in MCAT tutoring: I did take the new (2015) version of the MCAT, and am therefore comfortable tutoring for the new Psych/Soc section (as well as other sections of the new MCAT). For those interested in public speaking: I fell in love with public speaking during high school, when I joined my school's speech and debate team. When I began coaching younger teammates as an upperclassman,...

...strengths and weaknesses and forces us to address both. One on one educational situations give a better opportunity to address both, and provides a more specific type of instruction. I believe these one-on-one sessions allows for the most powerful progress for an individual student. Addressing weaknesses also builds character and allows a person to be a more effective member of our culture and community. I enjoy and look forward to participating in all aspects of...

...Summa cum Laude from college. As a math tutor, my goal is for my students to not only learn, but to also understand that it is an exercise in reasoning. I want them to come to know that math can, in fact, be fun. As a reading tutor, I want to share practices and tips that enabled me to be successful and to instill a lifelong love of reading in my students. I received a...

...the business. I took classes at Applied Scholastics to become a certified Tutor/Trainer. My organization became a licensee via Applied Scholastics to operate in the state of Missouri as a Tutoring Supplemental Educational Service in various school districts in the St. Louis Missouri area. I have tutored for over 15 years as well as have trained tutors to help young students in reading, language arts, and math. My favorite subject to tutor is reading, because...

...ceramics, and figure drawing. In my personal practice I focus mainly on fibers and ceramics. I have exhibited my work across the country including New York City and Chicago. I am passionate about craft, creative exploration, problem solving, and research. While visual arts are my focus, I am also very passionate about reading, and I work to instill the joy of reading in all of my students. I have tutored ESL students through VIP Kids.

I just finished my junior year at the University of Tulsa, on a pre-med track with a minor in Spanish. I have tutored extensively over the past 6 years with a variety of age groups, and helped kids prepare for the ACT for the last 4 years. I enjoy all subjects but am most passionate about math.

...I believe that teachers must consider teaching to be a lifestyle, not a mere career choice, because a teacher's goals for his/her students encompass much more than relaying out-of-context facts to passive students. As a professional I am entrusted with the education of young minds, I must facilitate learning and growth academically, personally, and ethically. By providing a quality education to each individual that I tutor, my goal is to equip each child with the...

My goal is to provide the best possible instruction to students in need of extra assistance through a variety of teaching methods that are appropriate to the student's learning style.... Usually, it is a lot of translating from one language to the other and systematically going through each sentence so that the student understands the relationship between all the words within the sentence. This is usually done with written sentences I come up with using the...

...as a tutor for my university's Writing Center, I discovered a love of teaching about writing too! During my time as a tutor, I helped a diverse group of students improve their writing both face-to-face and online, so I am well equipped to conduct tutoring session in a variety of ways. I also got the privilege of working with many types of writing including essays, applications, journal articles, and even some creative writing. I am...

Industrial Engineering student at Purdue University. I started tutoring sophomore year of high school, and have tutored elementary, middle, and high school students in a variety of subjects, but mostly in math.