Award-Winning Latin Tutors in Palmdale, CA

...my MA in Classics in 2010. I am writing my dissertation on Homer’s Iliad. I have been a teaching assistant at UCLA for four years. Two of these years I taught introductory courses on Greek and Roman civilization. I have extensive experience working individually with students during my office hours, which students frequent above all...

...wide variety of contexts -- as a professional SAT and SAT II private and group instructor, as a Yale Writing and ESL Partner, and as a private Latin tutor, to name just a few. I have even had one or two less conventional teaching jobs, such as martial arts instructor and audition coach. My favorite...

...particularly fond of Ovid's Metamorphoses, as well as the Aeneid. I have spent my last two years of school in Paris, where I went to study abroad for my junior year and ended up staying for another 4 ½ years. (C'est comme ça, ne c'est pas?) In Paris, I worked as a French and English...

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...trying to find new ways of teaching for however a particular student learns. I think this flexibility and dedication to making school work as easy as possible for my students is my strongest attribute as a tutor. I am available to work up to thirty hours per week. Friday through Sunday I would generally be...

...and grammar mechanics. During that time, I privately tutored a number of my students who needed special attention in my subject areas. I make a great tutor because I am extremely adaptable to different learning styles, and my philosophy is that students must reinforce the fundamental building blocks of the language if they are to...

...teaching in the college classroom. I tutor on subjects that really interest me ranging from Mathematics, English, Fine Art Appreciation, Writing College Essays, Essay Editing, Reading, Geography, Social Studies, Government and History. I earned my Master of Fine Arts Degree from California State University and I hold a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science with a...

I recently completed my doctoral dissertation on ethnicity and historical memory in the late Roman Republic and early Principate at the University of California , Santa Barbara. I have undergraduate degrees in Classics and Political Science. Part of graduate school is learning to be a teacher, and I have taught...... I think the best teaching happens in conversation. Having a text and talking about it is the traditional way teaching has happened because it works. "Exegesis" is what the Greeks called it when talking about Biblical texts, and I think the method is proven: have a text to discuss - what does it say? What does it assume? To whom is it directed? Those are things to talk about, not to dictate.

...and was hopelessly disorganized (I was that kid who lost his backpack twice a day!). Luckily, I was able to overcome my weaknesses as a student with the help of great teachers, and I try to model my own teaching style after those teachers who were able to reach challenging students...like me! Every great teacher...

...over ten years I began helping people with their own journey into this fascinating subject. I began teaching Latin upon graduating from Loyola Marymount University. Throughout my time I have taught and tutored several students who were preparing for school exams or looking to invest additional time into their Latin studies. While emphasizing a student's...