Award-Winning Latin Tutors in McHenry, IL

...and other challenges. I hope students find me approachable and that I will work hard to help them get through any obstacles in the topic they choose to have me teach or tutor them. I certainly can put myself in the place of others, as I have in the past relied on tutors to get...

...physically feel that I was putting MY foot somewhere Julius Caesar had once put HIS foot. It wasn't just possible - it was a fact. I have never recovered! It is this sort of a-ha moment that I hope my students find. I approach each student question as having multiple ways to get to the...

...style is fluid; I like to incorporate other disciplines so that I can help my students develop their weaknesses by playing to their strengths. I believe strongly in the value of a liberal arts education, and I hope I can inspire students to think about how all academic subjects relate to each other. When I'm...

...I have published on diverse topics ranging from Shakespeare to film theory, and I have given talks at national and regional conferences in my field. I have been an academic adviser to more than one hundred students at various colleges, and I have offered individual, tailored tutoring to many students over the years. In addition...

...Then I point out instances where the student can use the strategies (and guide the student through them if need be). Lastly, I back off a bit, allowing the student to use strategies on his or her own. In the Writing Center, this process has given students greater confidence as they internalize knowledge and become...

...County (TN) Middle School and Franklin County (TN) High School. Unfortunately, my school phased out their licensure program my sophomore year. I took a semester off and taught Outdoor Education at the YMCA of the Ozarks in 2010. I returned to school and graduated in 2011 with a BA in Political Science with minors in...

...school, and have taught a year of Latin IV Honors at the high school level. My personal goal in both tutoring and teaching is to impart my passion for these wonderful languages to the student. I would have never gone on to this career path were it not for the same passion of my Latin...

...tutoring athletes in chemistry. When I worked for a year at a biotech company, I also tutored high-school students in geometry and calculus. And during graduate school I tutored Latin and Greek to several middle-school and high-school students in the Cambridge, MA area. My tutoring passions are Latin and chemistry at all levels. It's always...

...student. I look for a student's specific learning style and approach material in this way. I have worked with students who have been accepted to Princeton and other highly selective universities, offering them advice with college essays and activity sheets. My essay advice is constantly informed by my knowledge of English literature. I have read...

...approaching the material and through the development of study skills such as learning the material in different ways or recognizing the root of the confusion. Therefore, I believe that a tutor should guide the student through the material to a point of comfort and understanding. In this way, I think that students gain strong building...