Award-Winning Latin Tutors in Santa Barbara, CA

...similar situation. My goal is always to build confidence and to teach students that improvement is a constant process. In Plato’s Apology, the philosopher Socrates said that a wise man knows that he knows nothing. The older I get, the more I see the truth in this statement. No matter how fluent I am in Latin, I still have to look up vocabulary words. No matter how well I think I argue a point in...

I'm the first to graduate college in my family for two generations. I can testify that education has been economically empowering, enriching and enlightening; I embrace lifelong learning and want to help students reach their academic goals and beyond. I'm most thankful to my teachers and tutors for helping me reach goals outside my comfort level by raising my expectations.

...Services. In both positions I helped students improve their grades in their classes (both high school and college), deepen their understanding of Latin and Classical history, further explore Latin outside of the classroom, and complete an online Latin course. As a Varsity Tutor, I will continue to tutor exclusively Latin as that is the subject I am most passionate about. I love helping students discover that learning Latin is actually the most fun they could...

...assistance in 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 blocks for future learning both with language as a whole and with the process of learning. I love...

...years, I lived in various parts of France while teaching English in private and classroom settings. The greatest joy in language education is communication. I interacted with my students in multiple languages and we had the opportunity to explore different worlds just by talking. I learned equally as much from my students about French society as they did from me. Now that I am back in the United States, I am eager to share and...

...on ancient religion and art during the Archaic period. I enjoy all of the subjects that I tutor, but I am most passionate about Latin, Writing, Spanish, and History. As a tutor, it's most important to me to cater lessons to each students particular learning styles and proclivities. I believe that everyone has the ability to learn anything and that it's just a matter of finding the right teaching methods for each individual. In my...

...As president, I created effective and informative games which covered materials from Latin 1 through AP Latin 4. For example, I made a children's book of the Aeneid, which helps students remember important events and dates through visuals and poetry. Since I've grown up in a family of ten, I've had the opportunity to teach Latin to my younger siblings, ages 10 and 12, doing things like calling our dog "canis" as a way of...

...Though I taught primarily at the high school, I also taught at the regional elderly center as a teaching assistant. Participating in this past program pushed me to realize how I truly love teaching and wish to pursue this as a career. I plan on pursuing my Masters degree next year. Given my love of languages, I specialize in tutoring all levels of Latin, though I’ve also studied Ancient Greek, Hebrew, and a bit of...

...It has also been a joy to help students prepare for forensics public speaking competitions. What fascinates me about theater, literature, Latin, etc. is the ways in which past generations speak to us in the present with their very similar, very human experiences. Virgil, for instance, describes a dark cave in which the hero Hercules tests his strength. Later, Spenser describes a similar such cave. Finally in our own times, Ibsen sets his final scene...

...Bay Area. 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 to helping students with specific subjects, I frequently help them with time-management, study skills, academic-life balance, and strategies...