Award-Winning Latin Tutors in Rensselaer County, NY

...fun way. I am convinced that patience, clear explanations, rapport and motivation are the keys for success in teaching and learning. I understand that not everybody learns in the same way, not everybody has the same needs! I work with kids, young learners and adults. I hold a degree in Education and I also have...

...Classics and Chemistry at Colgate University (2011-2015) and I continued my study of the classics at the graduate level at Columbia University (2015-2016). While I am confident in both my quantitative and verbal skills, I consider my primary strength to lie in standardized test-taking, the process of which I profoundly enjoy, strange as it is...

...French, and Spanish. While I love all of the subjects that I tutor, I particularly enjoy tutoring Spanish and French because they open doors to communicating with and understanding so many people, both near and far! I have traveled to Peru and hope to travel more in the future. I strongly believe that anyone can...

...were a pretty wild bunch, and reading about such huge personalities and their accomplishments is a treat unlike any other. I'm a real movie buff, with about 600 DVDs in my home library. I love cooking, all genres of music, and hiking; also, having lived and taught in France for a year, I'm a huge...

...dynamic teacher with twelve years of experience fostering a love of Latin in my students and motivating them to maximize their potential as scholars. I believe that students thrive and succeed in an environment where everyone feels valued and respected. This has been my guiding principle as a teacher, tutor and as a department chair.

...University of Mary Washington with a BA in Latin and Classical Civilization/Archeology and a Virginia Teaching Certification. I worked with an archeological team at Washington's Birthplace, taught for a year after school and then went into the automobile business until my daughters were in middle school. I got a MAL degree with a concentration in...

...passion and the subject of my career. I never stop marveling at the the way ancient literature leaps off the page in living color more than two thousand years later. In my spare time I enjoy cross country running, and I am currently ripping insatiably through Donna Tartt's newest novel, The Goldfinch. I am also...

...suddenly, I was not. My eventual goal was (and still is) to earn a teaching certificate, but that is still a ways off. What else could I do? An idea hit me. Just because I am not a student anymore, however, does not mean I can't still dedicate myself to learning. There is no better...

...not "bad at it", they just have not found the right approach. My job is to help each student master the material at hand by exploring different learning styles and techniques. Though I tutor a variety of subjects including Latin, chemistry, biology, and math, my favorite subject to tutor is organic chemistry. Organic chemistry problem...

...College in Maine. I double majored in Classics and Classical Civilizations, focusing on linguistics, grammar, ancient philosophy and ancient government. While at Colby, I tutored Latin and Ancient Greek, and I occasionally tutored students learning Roman and Greek History. While I tutor a broad range of subjects, I am most passionate about Latin, European History,...