Award-Winning Literature Tutors in St. Louis, MO

...been published in their annual journal of excellent student work. I have maintained a 3.5 GPA while working and caring for my two-year-old daughter. I have written three novels and won an award for a short story, as well as interning at St. Louis based publishers. I enjoy board games, bad movies, and cooking. My goal is to continue on with school to receive a Master's degree or higher and eventually become a teacher.

...years I taught career and technical education courses at the high school level. I have also worked as a home-bound teacher, and substitute teacher in varying subjects. I have high expectations for student achievement and stress that school is a place for learning. I believe that it is important to show the students that what they learn in the classroom transfers into the real world. Students are encouraged to express their knowledge in a variety...

...their each unique challenges. I truly believe that everyone has the potential to be great and achieve their goals. I also believe that as a collective society, we don't always provide the resources or supports to help guide us to those goals. As a Varsity Tutor, I look forward to working with each individual and getting to know their strengths, challenges, goals and barriers. By working from the perspective and considering the whole person, I...

...at the undergraduate level. I am well acquainted with German writing as well; also, German is very useful in a business setting and Germany currently boasts one of the strongest European economies, so I am excited to teach students about the language through that environment. So far, I have completed German at the 300 level and I have taken an business German elective. Aside from German in a business setting, I am more than willing...

...and earned a degree in Biochemistry. I worked as an athletic tutor and helped students in General and Physical Chemistry, College Algebra, World History, Basic to Intermediate Spanish and English Composition courses. Most of the sessions I conducted were one-on-one but I also tutored a number of group sessions for General Chemistry. Before an appointment with a student, I prefer to find out what topic the student is covering in their class and where the...

...not exclusively through by-the-book lectures, but through anecdotes and idiosyncratic metaphors which may have amused my classmates and I, but also aided our memories and our reasoning skills. Through high school and college, even while completing two unrelated Bachelor's degree programs, I began tutoring my own classmates, younger students, and even adult neighbors using a similar delivery style as my own teachers, albeit tailored to each student's individual struggles. My clients all showed a drastic...

...need extra tutoring in history, alas). Truman State's MAE program gave me the opportunity to translate that love of history to the classroom, giving me the teaching competencies to share it with students on a wide scale. The intense program gave me hundreds of hours of experience in the classroom, including many hours of hands on teaching and prep work, access to veteran instructors of all disciplines, and finally culminated in a six-month teaching internship...

...certified to teach middle and high school English in December, 2014. I have tutored in college preparatory and 10th grade English classes at Soldan High School, and I have also served as a volunteer tutor at the International Institute of St. Louis, assisting high school students with English coursework. In addition, I worked for ten years at Washington University Medical School as a technical writer and research administrator. I very much enjoy being in the...

...English tutors from Pre-K to 10th grade. My varied interests and experiences with different age groups allows me to tutor a wide range of subjects at many different grade levels. If I had to pick a favorite subject to tutor, though, it would be writing because I enjoy helping others develop their thoughts and ideas into something they can share with others. My teaching philosophy is differentiation, differentiation, differentiation! No two people are the same...

...range of topics, and I've had particular success coming up with creative and individualized methods to prepare students for the critical reading and the writing sections of standardized tests (including private school admission tests). I've also had a great time engaging students with English class material, as well as coaching them through presentations and public speaking and it is exciting for me to see my students processing and thinking about new topics, and to see...

...essay-writing, and study skills. I'm a friendly, approachable, and caring person, and I love helping other people learn to do something new. I was an English major in college, and while working on my degree I tutored fellow undergrads as well as adults with special needs from the local community. This year I enjoyed volunteering with Americorps VISTA and teaching art and creative writing classes at Busch Middle School. Additionally, I'm a part-time nanny, and...

Hi! My name is Caroline and I am a current student at Washington University in St. Louis, double majoring in Anthropology: Global Health & Environment and Healthcare Management. I have 6 years of tutoring experience via both volunteer and private opportunities, and am so excited to be a part of the team at Varsity Tutors.

...the ACT, with an emphasis on English and Reading. Additionally, after over fourteen years of Spanish classes and six months abroad in Buenos Aires, Argentina, I have become completely fluent in Spanish (including reading, writing, and speaking) and enjoy drawing on my experience as a second-language learner to tutor other students in Spanish. I have an academic background in Spanish linguistics, which allows me to explain grammatical concepts in more nuanced terms that help my...

...love when my enthusiasm for poetry or Shakespeare or writing essays transfers to a student and they say, "I never thought of it like that" or when they actually admit that English that year "wasn't that bad." Like most teachers, I imagine, I started my career thinking I was teaching English. I eventually figured out that what I actually do is teach people. Young people who are smart and creative and funny and challenging. I...

...History, and the Philosophies of Plato, Aristotle, and Existential Philosophy. My passion, of course, is Philosophy! I love teaching ideas, and the construction of solid arguments! It's just exciting! I have privately tutored hundreds of students in all the areas listed above. I enjoy working one on one with a student, because you just accomplish more that way. I would characterize my teaching and tutoring style as one that is highly interactive with the student....

...nothing more than finding answers alongside other eager students. With my broad scope of experience teaching English in Thailand, earning my undergraduate degree in English, starting my Master of Social Work, and tutoring students from kindergarteners to adults, I am eager to assist others on their educational journey. I love finding creative methods that fit each of my student's personal learning styles, which means that I can make any subject, whether Writing, Reading, Editing, and...

...a Peace Corps Volunteer. Most recently, I spent two years as an English Lecturer at the Institute of Language and Culture Studies, Royal University of Bhutan. Because of the wonderful experiences I've had abroad, I am most passionate about teaching both English and Spanish. I also tutor TOEFL prep and math, which was my favorite subject in school. My teaching/tutoring style is student-centered, with a focus on individual goals and needs. I am enthusiastic about...

Saint Louis University 4th year Occupational Therapy student dedicated to providing the highest level of service to each student. Patient tutor who believes in the power of adaptation and learning.

I will always be a lifelong learner. The tutor-student relationship is one of reciprocity where each person must work to learn from each other in effort to best understand the subject matter at hand. Ultimately, learning should be both fun and challenging. Like most things worthwhile, knowledge a reward of working through limits. ... As a tutor, I aim to develop customized methods for each student that is sensitive to each individual's learning strategies. This starts...

...and a night out, at Busch Stadium watching the Cardinals. Why I tutor: to watch students grow in academics and in character. Favorite subjects to tutor: 1-ACT English and Reading (I took the test 3 times as a high school student...I know); 2- Writing (college or high school papers). Taking a test or writing a paper? Cross-reference Matt Damon, at the end of "The Martian": "At some point, everything's gonna go south on you... everything's...