Award-Winning Social Studies Tutors serving Overland Park, KS

...and Study Skills & Organization. My experience also includes being an instructor at MU for Health Sciences Seminar and Learning Strategies. The courses included teaching students: study techniques, academic planning, professional development, time management, motivation, campus involvement, stress management and other academic related skills. I was also an academic adviser at MU where I counseled students on selecting a major, creating a four-year plan of study and to pursue internships compatible with their career goals....

Recent college graduate with a Bachelors of Science in International business and double minors in Marketing and Spanish.

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...when they realize their own potential! In doing so, I adopt bell hooks's concept of "engaged pedagogy" to help my students realize their power and agency in the classroom. Far too often, writing instructors utilize classrooms as spaces to assert their own authority instead of encouraging students to realize their own. As a result, the classroom transforms into a space of policing and control for students, as opposed to a space of empowerment.

I am a suma cum laude graduate of the University of New Orleans, with a BA in History, as well as a magna cum laude graduate with a Master's degree in Education from the University of Kansas. I am licensed in general and special education, as well as ESL. I also lived as an exchange student in Germany, and enjoyed the process of learning another language. I have 7 years of teaching experience in special...

I am an experienced educator with over eight years of teaching and curriculum development expertise, dedicated to helping students achieve their academic goals. My approach is student-centered, focusing on identifying individual learning styles and tailoring lessons to meet their unique needs. I excel at breaking down complex concepts into manageable steps, fostering both understanding and confidence. With a passion for making learning engaging and accessible, I build strong relationships with my students to create a...

I am currently going into my Sophomore year at Kansas State University majoring in Computer Science. I'm excellent at Math and Science and love to learn in general. I love to help people out and thought that this would bee a great opportunity to help kids who are struggling. I prefer to use analogies and visualizations when I'm teaching, I've found those to help me out best but I can adapt it based on the...

My name is Christina Chandler and I love working with and tutoring students because it really gives me a chance to see and celebrate their successes up close. I mean that's why we become teachers! I love the opportunity to see those light bulbs moments. Being a technology teacher I don't always get to practice some of those other wonderful content areas we have to work on in college, such as English and History. Tutoring...

I recently graduated from the University of Kansas (Rock Chalk!) with a B.A. in History and a B.A. in Anthropology, with honors and with distinction as a Global Scholar. I am now a law student at Washington University in St. Louis School of Law, a top 20 Law school according to US News. I enjoy tutoring for standardized tests, particularly the LSAT, as well as helping students improve in history, reading, and writing skills. When...

...Spanish, history is perhaps my favorite subject to tutor because it is the field that I have received most of my education in and it is also the subject that I did my student teaching in. I have a strong passion for American history and I have traveled extensively throughout the United States, visiting all 50 states and numerous presidential birthplaces and homes, museums, gravesites, battlefields, and monuments. I am a strong proponent of education,...

Hello! Kansas City was my home growing up, before traveling to the University of Vermont for a Bachelor of Arts in Film and Japanese Studies, with a minor in History. I want to help students get into their own dream schools-- All it takes is the perseverance to study! I can help tutor ACT/SAT prep and all humanities, especially English and History!

...My name is Shanice Robinson, I am currently a 4th year medical student at Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine. I have had the pleasure of being an admissions committee student member during my second year of medical school. While in undergraduate at Spelman College, I was a Biology major with a pre-medicine concentration. I have 4 years of experience with tutoring and I have truly enjoyed it. I look forward to helping you...

I have tutored various subjects including English, ESL, Political Science, Sociology, and History for high school students and college students for over six years. I hold an interdisciplinary doctoral degree in Education Curriculum and Instruction and Social Sciences from the University of Missouri. I further completed 18 hours in Masters of TESOL at GCU as well as hold an English teaching certification. I possess over six years of experience teaching English to diverse learners (1)...

Hi! My name is Joel and I am currently attending the University of Missouri with a double major of Chemistry and Political Science. I have lived on Kansas City all my life. While growing up I played on my school's tennis and soccer team. Additionally I participated in National Honor Society, and was the President of Ping pong Club in my school. In high school I tutored many students in subjects such as AP Government...

...and self-care and is geared towards youth and family development. I'm also a published author! Writing, talking, and writing again are my passion. Reminders that I tell myself quite OFTEN: Michael- you're only human. Give yourself grace and let your humanity show! When you're in tough times, remember that It's the hottest fire that makes the hardest steel; so, don't give up! Oh, and just when the Caterpillar thought life was over, she became a...

I'm a recent graduate of Kansas State University with a degree in Life Sciences. I am able to help students with many subjects but I feel best when teaching life sciences (obviously), as well as history and Latin. In my free time I enjoy reading, playing video games, learning new things, and watching and talking about films, TV, etc. I look forward to helping people succeed.

...academic year as an employee of the Kansas Algebra Program; I was responsible for curriculum development, lecture and group work during class time, assigning and grading homework, developing a policy on late work and other behavioral expectations, maintaining office hours, and prompt and professional communication with students via e-mail and private meetings outside of class time. Other responsibilities of this employment include staffing a tutoring room where students from College Algebra or Intermediate Mathematics classes...

I graduated from Rice University in Houston, Texas in 2010 with a degree in psychology and worked at a reading institute. My psychology education helped me understand why the reading institute was so effective and why many students struggle in other areas as well - they misuse their working memory! Our brains work by combining small bits of information at a time and the process can easily be derailed by anxiety, missing previous information, poor...

I am Chad Bergman, a current Dartmouth student pursuing my Bachelor's in Economics with a physics 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...