...I love language, teaching it especially, and am a tutor with experience working with children one-on-one with their reading skills. I volunteer for a literacy organization called Mighty Writers in Philadelphia, and sadly, many of the kids in the program are reading below grade level. I now have... (read more)
Hi, I'm Kirsten (pronounced k-ears-ten)! I am a high school Latin teacher and tutor with 12 years of experience, a Bachelor's in Ancient Greek and Latin, a Master's in Education, and a post-bac in Latin Studies. I have taught all levels of Latin, from Latin 1 through AP Latin, and I can help you wi... (read more)
...I prepared for the role through a semester-long intensive pedagogy course where I was trained in writing tutoring. I also have extensive experience in scholarly research and writing: I worked as a Research Assistant at GW, researching Black women's community health. After graduating, I worked a... (read more)
...I have an MA in English from the University of Pennsylvania, where I taught in the Africana Studies Summer Program, and an MA from Villanova University, where I taught Medieval to Early Modern Literature and Narrative Television. Along with my extensive experience teaching at the collegiate leve... (read more)
...The reading section of the SAT is a heavily vocabulary-driven test, so I work with students to improve their vocabulary. I also provide students with strategies they can use to identify the best answer to every question. I show them how to approach the questions so that the correct answers are virtually as quantifiable as the correct answers to math questions are. (read more)