Award-Winning PSAT Tutors serving Overland Park, KS

...instilled in me the love for learning and the expectation to work hard and get results. I watched him plan his lessons nightly at the kitchen table and have never forgotten how important it is to plan for each and every subject. Being a tutor gives me the rare opportunity to do that for each and every student as well. I graduated from the University of Nebraska with a Bachelor's Degree in Elementary Education with...

I believe that education is the best, and sometimes only, way to level the playing field. I'm currently studying to be an elementary teacher and love working with students of all ages. Working with students on a daily basis has helped me to hone in on how to tailor lessons to individual students needs. I am excited to get the opportunity to continue this work through varsity tutors!

...pursuing a Global Awareness Certificate. I am an IB diploma graduate, with a 6 overall. I teach math at every level, as well as French. I also do a lot of work with elementary level students and art students. My teaching style is very gentle. I believe that students' confidence in their abilities is fundamental to long-term success. My focus for students is to understand the current material, while also giving them the tools they...

...physics and secondary specialisms in integrated science and TEFL. I became a teacher in the UK covering physics, chemistry, biology, ecology, and mathematics. When I moved to the US, I focused on tutoring, working both privately, and with the voluntary organizations, 'I Have a Dream Foundation' and 'Youth Competency in Math and Science'. My tutoring work spans over 23 years. In the US I worked for the past 20 years in biomedical research, and during...

I'm a software engineer who loves coming up with intuitive ways to think about things, and I'm here to help!

An energetic, ambitious, responsible and intelligent individual who has developed a mature and responsible approach to any tasks undertaken. Experienced, creative, adaptable and bright individual with an excellent motivation towards learning and helping others. ... I have two teaching philosophies as a tutor: to get students to think about science (and other classes) as a process, and to individualize their learning experiences.... In a typical first session with a student I will introduce myself and then...

I am a historically high-achievement student with honors including multiple 1st place performances in Kansas state science competitions. I attended Washington University on scholarship and will graduate Spring 2021 with a Comparative Arts degree with plans of becoming a professor. I have been trained to act as a writing tutor at the collegiate level, and have experience with and passion for assisting students with disabilities.

Hi, I'm Emma! I'm a rising senior Classics major at Carleton College in Northfield, MN. I study Latin, Ancient Greek, and the histories associated with the two languages. Outside of class, I'm an RA, and I spend 6-8 hours a week tutoring and teaching college access courses in a nearby high school. In the future, I hope to teach high school Latin!

...found myself in unfamiliar territory. I had been a student my entire life, and 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 way to do that than to...

...minor. I have experience tutoring college economics in person on Dartmouth campus as well as online tutoring in high school calculus and physics. I've had great success on the SAT and ACT as well as my AP tests in high school, and I hope to help others succeed as well. My favorite subject to tutor is physics because I feel like learning to apply a few fundamental principles to different real world situations is extremely...

...first calculus class, where my professor engaged me with the material and encouraged students to think critically about not just calculus, but math as a field of study. I started questioning the world around me, and slowly began to piece together the relevance of the knowledge I had accumulated over the past 12 years. These lessons made me realize this: people are not born with knowledge, they work hard for it. While every field of...

Beyond the beauty and usefulness of math itself, mathematical problem solving teaches deduction and logic that are applicable far beyond numbers to every facet of daily life.

...I tutored many students, aged middle school to college, in subjects including SAT and ACT prep, Algebra, Calculus, Biology, and Chemistry. I then worked in a neuro-psychiatry laboratory before starting medical school in Kansas City. Throughout my lengthy education I have taken several courses on each of the subject that I tutor and have taken quite a few standardized exams. This has allowed me not only to master the information, but also to experience a...

I am Ed, the Educator and Entrepreneur! I love working with students of all levels and building critical thinking and reasoning skills!

...my professional life in schools where I could learn and help others learn as well and where I could work with hundreds of students over the years, each with unique personalities, strengths, interests and needs. I taught math, science and technology in middle and high schools and eventually became a high school principal and school director. But I was always a teacher first and always motivated by the individual students in my classes and schools....

...know about ancient Egypt? Imagine what it would be like to be among the pharaohs and slaves by taking a video tour of a pyramid tomb. Struggling with vocabulary? Try discovering the etymology of words by taking a look at some Latin manuscripts written by monks centuries ago! As you can see, I like to draw in a lot of historic visual references to help learning a lot more dynamic and exciting. I love teaching...

...University of Missouri-Columbia (Mizzou) where I received my Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering in 2013. I worked for Procter and Gamble for about five years as a process engineer and project manager. Recently, I obtained my teaching certification which qualifies me to teach math at both the middle and high school levels. I have a strong passion for both math and science, particularly algebra, geometry, trigonometry, calculus, general chemistry and organic chemistry.

...university-level English literature courses. I also have extensive experience teaching test preparation strategies and skills, having prepared my ESL students to take the international baccalaureate English entrance exam (iBT TOEFL). While in Korea, I was promoted to Head Instructor and oversaw a team of five teachers, mentoring them and encouraging them to make classes as fun and interactive as possible. I am passionate about meeting students where they are at and using unique ways of...

...through Sixth Grade. I worked with kids of widely-spanning ages on skills from alphabet citation to the formation of complex sentences, pattern recognition 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...

I have been tutoring in various subjects for nearly 15 years now. I can tutor various subjects with my strengths being in Reading, Languages, Literature, History and Science. I am best with math through 12th grade. I have experience helping students pass their GED and I can help with all of the sections including math, science, and reading. I am fairly proficient in Spanish, though I read and comprehend it better than I speak it.