Award-Winning Latin Tutors in Shawnee Mission, KS

...arts, and the humanities, I make connections between different subjects to help my students see how what we're working on isn't so strange after all! Before beginning to work with Varsity Tutors in August of 2014, I worked in a K-8 school as an intervention math teacher. There, I tutored elementary- and middle-school students in math in small groups. Working in that setting taught me more about how to explain abstract concepts simply and creatively,...

...go back to school for Classics. I am currently developing a publication on the relative clause in Ancient Greek and I hope to begin a PhD program in the fall. I completed my MA with a 4.0 GPA and received a perfect score on the verbal GRE. I also scored 168 on the LSAT and graduated in the top ten percent of my law school class. My teaching experience includes two years' teaching Latin and...

...literature and culture are interwoven and how they affect those around them. I get really excited about learning/re-discovering things and subsequently about teaching those things to my students. I believe that education is the best way to expand not only your mind, but to improve your situation and quality of life. When I'm not teaching, I love to read, make jewelry, travel, watch Doctor Who and play with my cat, Oedipus. I am also just...

...on Medieval British history. While in College, I taught a group of 9th grade students at a local synagogue. My class focused on the role of women in some of the most pivotal stories in the bible. This experience gave me first hand experience in tailoring subjects to the learning styles of my students and also taught me how to bring subjects, often viewed as boring, to life for them. I really enjoy working with...

...to long division. For me, as important as helping those students was establishing friendships with them. I went back to visit the kids over Christmas Break and was astounded at how many of them looked at me with smiles of recognition. My love for tutoring has extended into college. I have just finished my first year at The University of Dallas where I am currently pursuing all subjects under the sun; however, I am leaning...

...tutoring test prep such as PSAT/SAT/ACT/GRE and competition math. I consider my tutoring style to be less rigid: I prefer for my students to come with questions in advance for me to answer rather than have me set a plan of covering x, y, and z material for a set amount of time. Whenever I tutor, I try to make sure that my student fully understands the concept at hand, so I will make as...

...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 way to do that than to help others learn too, and that is, most of all, what I want to do. I hope you, too, will...

...the high school or college level) and organic chemistry, both of which were always personal favorites. Even more importantly, in my pursuit of the sciences and humanities I have not just mastered two different types of content; rather, I’ve mastered two different ways of thinking. Because I understand both the way a strong humanities student might think and the way a strong science student might think, I’m able to ‘translate’ for students who are strong...

...an overnight camp for several years, I discovered how much I enjoyed being a mentor and guiding hand in someone else’s life. As a young man myself, I developed a passion for Latin early on, and excelled in it through middle school, high school and college eventually earning my B.A. in Classics. Upon graduating, I went on to teach Latin for three years. My principal would always cite my ability to motivate and inspire my...

...for eight years at both the high school and college levels and have an upper intermediate fluency. I hope to continue my education and eventually become a professor of Classics with a focus 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...