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Tutor since the 1990s -- AP Exams & the National Counselor Exam (NCE)
Mark R.

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Dr. R. is an accomplished scholar, retired military, and a published author. When Dr. R. teaches, he emphasizes the Trivium - that is, grammar, logic, and rhetoric. Dr. R. is an interdisciplinary thinker, who enjoys teaching history and philosophy, theology and psychology; English Literature, academic writing; Greek and Latin grammar; Biblical Studies, and the National Counselor Examination (NCE). Above all, Dr. R. edits research papers, whether a collegiate essay, a masters-level thesis, or...

Dr. R. is an accomplished scholar, retired military, and a published author. When Dr. R. teaches, he emphasizes the Trivium - that is, grammar, logic, and rhetoric. Dr. R. is an interdisciplinary thinker, who enjoys teaching history and philosophy, theology and psychology; English Literature, academic writing; Greek and Latin grammar; Biblical Studies, and the National Counselor Examination (NCE). Above all, Dr. R. edits research papers, whether a collegiate essay, a masters-level thesis, or a doctoral dissertation.

His book, available on Amazon, advocates empirically supported treatments for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

As a professor with a Doctorate in Education, Dr. Mark R. teaches Advanced Placement (AP) Classes. Specifically, he teaches ten (10) AP classes. These AP Classes include

AP Latin - Units 1, 2, 3, and 4
AP US History
AP World History
AP European History
AP English Language
AP English Literature
AP Human Geography
AP Psychology
AP Seminar
AP Research

As a clinician, Dr. R. specializes in crisis intervention, trauma pastoral care, critical incident stress management (CISM), psychological first aid (PFA), and mass casualty (MASCAL) response.

On a personal note, Dr. R. is a combat veteran, who receives a disability pension from the Veterans Administration (VA), plus combat-related special compensation (CRSC) from the Department of Defense (DoD).

Not only does Dr. R. counsel disabled combat veterans, who have been diagnosed with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) - he also teaches these veterans, academically, as these veterans are transitioning from military to civilian life, as these veterans are exploring educational opportunities funded by the Post-911 GI Bill, Vocational Rehabilitation, and the Dependents Educational Assistance (DEA) program.

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Education

Washington & Lee University
Business Admin
Regent College
Masters
Liberty University
EdD
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ACT English

ACT English

Since 1990s, I have been teaching grammar. My knowledge is precise, but I have devised a system to simplify a working knowledge of grammar into a 4 step process. First, identify the verb; then analyze the subject, before locating the object. The fourth step is working with the modifiers -- those modifiers can be adjectives or verbs; participles or prepositional phrases; and finally dependent clauses, either adjectival clauses, adverbial clauses, or substantive-noun clauses. Fundamentally, though, a sentence = Subject + Verb + Object + Modifiers.
Bible Studies

Bible Studies

At the Bible College Level, I have taught Systematic Theology, Biblical Studies, Church History, and Applied Pastoral Care. I read Ecclesiastical Latin and Koine Greek.
Classics

Classics

Knowledge of Greek and Latin can be confirmed by course work on my seminary transcript, where I earned a Master of Divinity degree. Since 2021, I have been teaching Greek and Latin literature through Varsity Tutors. While teaching the Greek New Testament, I use the grammar, New Testament Greek for Beginners by J. Gresham Machen. While teaching Classical and Ecclesiastical Latin, I use the following grammars -- Cambridge Latin Course, Units 1, 2, and 3; A Primer of Ecclesiastical Latin by John F. Collins; Latin Alive Series, Books 1, 2, and 3 by Dr. Karen Moore and Gaylan DuBose; Wheelock's Latin, 7th edition, by Dr. Fredrick M. Wheelock
College Counseling

College Counseling

As a retired counselor, Dr. Robertson has more than 50,000 hours of clinical experience responding to traumatic events. Such traumatic events include Suicide attempts Psychotic breaks Gunshot wounds Blast injuries Terminal illness Car crashes Drug overdose Heart attacks Traumatic amputations Sexual assaults Industrial accidents Line of duty deaths (e.g. police officers, firefighters, U.S. military) Organ donation decisions Funeral planning Morgue viewings Dignified transfer of human remains Dr. Robertson is a National Certified Counselor (NCC), a Certified Trauma Treatment Specialist (CTTS), and a Diplomate in the College of Pastoral Supervision and Psychotherapy (CPSP). Before military retirement, he was a Board Certified Chaplain (BCC).
Essay Writing

Essay Writing

In 2021, I defended my doctoral dissertation, which consisted of 60,000 words. This dissertation was approved without edits, without additions, or without the need for revisions -- approved by a panel of PhD readers, who praised the quality of scholarship as worthy of a doctoral degree in Community Care and Counseling, with a concentration in Traumatology. The bibliography, itself, contains 100+ peer-reviewed citations, catalogued by various academic libraries.
European History

European History

Since 2021, I have been teaching European History on another online teaching platform. When I teach AP European History, I share study resources from Barrons, Kaplan, Princeton Review, and McGraw Hill. Furthermore, I read ecclesiastical Latin and Biblical Greek, which are the languages of Church History from the Reformation era. Blessings, Dr. Mark Robertson
Executive Functioning

Executive Functioning

Since 2017, I have been a certified as a National Certificate Counselor (NCC), so I can manage issues of developmental psychology, such as deficits with Executive Functioning, whether that be restlessness, inattention, poor concentration, inability to work unsupervised, and/or a lack of impulse control. One-on-one, I have tutored about 70 students, who have been diagnosed by a school psychologist to have issues with executive functioning.
Government & Politics

Government & Politics

I am retired military, so I have been a government employee, engaged in the politics of war, as well as the politics of lobbying for the passage of legislation. Plus, I have been teaching government and politics since 2021 on another online learning platform.
Greek

Greek

Since 1993, I have been reading the Greek Testament -- daily. Plus, I completed five semester of Koine Greek as a seminary student, when I earned a Master of Divinity degree from Regent College, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Homeschool

Homeschool

In 1998, I was ordained as a minister, so I have been teaching Sunday School, as well as sermonizing since then. In 2007, I was credential as Pastoral Education or Supervisor for Clinical Pastoral Education, so I have been teaching seminary students and seminary graduation since that time. In 2003, I was commissioned as an officer in the US Air Force, and so I was teaching Airmen and other soldiers in a training environment. Since 2021, I have tutored online in excess of 400 students. My tutoring focus has been history, literature, and psychology.
Interview Prep

Interview Prep

Working as a pastor and chaplain and disaster relief worker, I have interviewed and recruited countless volunteers, in order to staff church functions, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), governmental organization, military units, and corporations. For example, I interviewed and recruited a cadre of peer professionals, whom I trained to do psychological first aid, to respond to sexual assaults, to do interventions for those suffering from suicidal ideations, and to evacuate soldiers who suffered a psychotic break, due to an overload of combat stress.
Latin

Latin

I have been reading Greek and Latin since the 1990s.
Personal Statements

Personal Statements

As ordained clergy and a retired military officers, I have had to oversee the writing of countless personal statements, whether they be military bios, introducing the command responsibilities of soldiers; plus, I have gathered personal statements from family members, in order to write obituaries that would be published in the newspaper, or read as a part of the funeral service. Finally, while working as an online tutor, I have interviewed high school students, and thus organized their life experiences into personal statements, which they used to apply for college, as well to secure as college scholarships.
Philosophy

Philosophy

I can a broad classical education and am critical conversant with the Western tradition, as presented in the “Great Books” curriculum.
Psychology

Psychology

Since 2017, I have been tutoring status for the National Counselor Exam (NCE). As a doctoral student, I earned “As” in my statistics course. I can quantify the “shape” of data, using descriptive statistics.
Reading

Reading

I read English, Greek, and Latin.
Religion

Religion

In 1998, I was ordained as a non-denominational pastor. For 20 years, I worked as an Emergency Room Chaplain in Level One Trauma Centers, both stateside and in combat. In 2014, I retired from the active duty component of the US Air Force, where I served as a chaplain. In 2005, I retired from Grady Memorial Hospital, where I served as an Emergency Room Chaplain. Finally, I published a book, entitled "Emergency Room Chaplain: Crisis Response and Clinical Care for First Responders and Combat Veterans." In 1996, I earned a Master of Divinity degree -- with a concentration in New Testament Greek, Biblical Studies, and Church History. I have been tutoring religion since the 1990s.
Thesis Writing

Thesis Writing

My doctoral dissertation was an N-4 case study designed. It summarized 20 years of field research as a crisis counselor, using 100+ academic sources to advance an evidence-based argument. This was a qualitative dissertation that was not merely phenomenological in character, but also the dissertation advanced a theoretical framework, which explained how posttraumatic stress can be transformed into posttraumatic growth. When I defended this thesis, it passed the first time -- without the Dissertation Review Committee requesting any edits or revisions. The structure of a dissertation have 5 parts -- namely, Introduction, Literature Review, Methodology, Findings, and Discussion. The introduction poses research questions; the literature review identifies gaps in research; the methods section proposes how those gaps will be filled by data collection, then there is empirical findings, as well as philosophical discussion about the implications of future research. My dissertation is available for purchase on Amazon for $25. So far, I have sold about 400 copies of the dissertation.
United States History

United States History

Since 2021, I have been teaching the AP exams for U.S. History, European History, and World History. In the 1990s, I taught Church History from primary source documents that dated from the Patristic Period, the Dark Ages, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the Protestant Reformation, the Catholic Counter Reformation; the First, Second, and Third Great Awakenings; plus 19th Century British Evangelicalism, and the Charismatic Movement in the 20th Century, beginning with the Azusa Street Revival in 1908.
Writing

Writing

I defended a 60,000 word thesis and passed without the need for edits or revisions. Then the thesis was published as a book.
American History
Elementary Math
English
ESL/ESOL
Geography
Grammar
Literature
Political Science
Proofreading
PSAT
SAT Writing
Social Studies
Statistics
Vocabulary
World History
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Exceptional Ecclesiastical Latin Tutor — Highly Recommended

I have been studying Ecclesiastical Latin with Dr. Robertson for over a year and a half, and I have genuinely enjoyed every minute of it. His command of both Latin and Ancient Greek has been invaluable throughout my studies, particularly in deepening my understanding of Latin grammar as it relates to Sacred Scripture and the Roman Liturgy. Beyond his linguistic expertise, Dr. Robertson brings a remarkable knowledge of history into each session, which consistently enriches the learning experience. He has a gift for situating the language within its historical development, making Latin come alive as a language formed and refined over centuries rather than merely a subject to be mastered. Studying with Dr. Robertson is not only intellectually rewarding but truly enjoyable. His tutoring is well worth both the time and the investment, and I cannot recommend him highly enough to anyone seeking serious, engaging, and rewarding instruction in Latin.

Steven, 4 lessons with Mark

Knowledgeable and Patient Tutor

My daughter has been struggling in AP Seminar due to not understanding the AP assignments given by the teacher. Dr. R was very patient and communicated effectively to thoroughly explain the assignment but also explaining fundamental skills that she has found to already help her in her other classes.

Nara, 5 lessons with Mark
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