Award-Winning Reading Tutors in Kentucky

I am an experienced teacher, coach and tutor with a passion for helping students improve through better understanding the material, reading between the lines of the test questions, and mastering the tactics and strategies particular to each test that will lead to the best possible score. ... I apply the Socratic method to all learning situations. I assess where a student is, and ask the right questions to facilitate the next step.

...writing and literary analysis, and I am here to help you develop your paper-writing skills! I have experience teaching both grade school and high school students, and have taught college-level seminars. I live in Louisville with my wife and three cats. Besides reading and writing, I enjoy cooking, puppeteering, lifting weights, and gardening.... The most important skill a student can have is critical thinking. I use a back-and-forth approach with individual students to draw out what they already know based on their life experiences, then use that as an entry point to talk about the text.

...student taught college Chemistry, and I have written Continued Learning materials for a Continuing Legal Education symposium. I worked as a nanny for over 8 years before I had my own child. I am quite familiar with being around children and encouraging them to grow. I have never had a student under my instruction not...

...European Union Studies. I have been teaching courses at the high school and college level for almost ten years in several areas of the humanities. While I tutor a broad range of subjects, I am most passionate about aiding students with their writing (including college essays); helping with research, organization and study skills, literature and...

...passionate interest in political history and enjoy sharing that interest with students. In addition, I am currently on a leave of absence from my doctoral program in the Humanities (Studies in Culture). My area of interest is early modern Atlantic maritime culture, particularly political and socioeconomic culture, and my dissertation is a study of early...

...at the University of Notre Dame. As someone who has studied Mandarin Chinese for three years, I understand the difficulty of acquiring a new language and the importance of immersion in the language as opposed to rote memorization of vocabulary words. I also believe that presenting arguments in a clear, well-structured, organized manner will improve...

...are prepared to be all they can be. A little about myself: I graduated from University of Louisville with my bachelors in Education (concentration in English) in 2012. I graduated in December of 2016 with a specialty in literacy covering P-12. I have been a senior English teacher for nearly four years, not including my...

...of visual art and music. In fact, I became interested in math because I began (suddenly, with a little help from art manifestos) to see it as sculpture. (In my free time, I create computer animation using both math and programming skills.) As I tutor, I like to communicate this enthusiasm. For instance, learning to...

...want to be able to help clients overcome obstacles they may have in their education. I currently work as a Special Education Teacher in a middle and high school setting. I have served in this position for the past six years rotating between EBD, LBD, and collaboration/resource in the regular education setting. Throughout my career...

...to me why their chosen answer choices are correct - and often they are unable to do so, which provides the opportunity to expand understanding. At the end of every tutoring session, I do a recap - categorizing the types of mistakes they made and giving suggestions for strengthening those areas of weakness.