Award-Winning Latin Tutors in Aurora, CO

...a graduate of the University of Texas at El Paso. I received a Bachelor of Arts with a focus in Spanish and a minor in Education. Since I graduated, I started a coaching program at a middle school and I have eleven years of teaching experience with students from all ages. I have traveled abroad and I have worked with a very diverse group of students from Mexico, Ukraine, and within the U.S. As a...

...love when people call me a nerd. I believe that enjoying school and having an interest in learning about how the world works are wonderful qualities in a person. Many children say they hate school and it is just because they are having a hard time understanding the material and how it will apply to their lives. I believe that by bringing a child's interests into their school work and helping them to understand, they...

...up in Tacoma, WA in a family that placed a great emphasis on education, and I spent most of my childhood with my nose in a book. I'm comfortable with many subjects, but my heart (and real expertise) lies in History and Language Arts. I majored in Medieval Studies and English Literature at Smith College and took a wide variety of classes outside of my majors, including Psychology, Geology, and Math. I graduated Cum Laude...

...a Ph.D. in Ancient Greek Literature at CU Boulder at the end of 2019, and spent most of that time teaching. Before that I got my B.A. at Bryn Mawr College. I've previously taught Latin and Greek as foreign languages, Latin and Greek literature in translation, and Roman and Greek history and culture. It's important to me to teach my students skills as well as content; students don't just come to class to memorize charts...

...to PhD programs in International Development and Foreign Policy. Outside of academics, I am an avid gamer, both tabletop and video games. I frequently travel, both for pleasure and for gaming competitions. I am also an avid hiker and mountain biker. When not working or gaming, you can find me wandering mountain trails. As I stated above I believe that forging a personal connection between the student and the material is the key to education....

...been a professional after-school tutor for three years, serving high-need middle and high schools through DPS as well as privately tutoring students of all grade levels from early elementary up to graduating bachelor's. My primary focus is physics and mathematics, but I have plenty of experience and great confidence with all subject areas from elementary to early college. Growing up as the second oldest in a family of ten meant I was always there to...

...learning have always been my foremost passions, and I seek to share those passions with students who have a similar desire to grow. Through developing one-on-one tutoring relationships, I hope to find the natural strengths every students possesses to further their understanding of subjects they wish to understand better. My compassion, enthusiasm, and love for knowledge all contribute to my love of teaching and tutoring, and I hope to share those with eager students.... My teaching...

...but help them find a way to love the learning. I have attended a wide variety of schools with drastically different educational philosophies--from Steiner schools to private school to charter school, to public school to Sarah Lawrence College, which is famous for its alternative education model--and know first hand that different students benefit from different teaching methods. If a student finds a way to enjoy learning a subject everything else will follow, and as a...

...and then working from there to create understanding on the math they are learning. I believe in showing the student what to do when they are starting out and then progressing to the student showing me what to do. I regularly assess the student to see how they are doing in their learning and make adjustments accordingly. I have taken countless students who previously could not pass or learn math into a path of not...

...teacher and student alike, I value a life of education by inspiring and being inspired by the world, using my education and experiences to motivate positive change. My vision: to help students help themselves achieve and sustain success across the curriculum any time, any where. My core qualifications: Special Education, Reading Remediation, Curriculum Design, Common Core Standards and Modifications, Teaching 1:1 and Small Groups K-12, ODD, ADHD, ESL, Dyslexia/graphia, ASD, Power Yoga Instruction, Animal Assisted...