Greetings! My name is Matthew Amyx, PhD, and I tutor history and English (both reading and writing) for middle-school, high-school, and college students. I graduated with a BA in History from the University of Texas at Tyler (with an English minor), an MA in Social Sciences from the University of Chicago, and a PhD in History from Loyola University Chicago. I have tutored students one-on-one, in classrooms, and in museum settings and have taught freshman college history at Loyola since 2022....
Greetings! My name is Matthew Amyx, PhD, and I tutor history and English (both reading and writing) for middle-school, high-school, and college students. I graduated with a BA in History from the University of Texas at Tyler (with an English minor), an MA in Social Sciences from the University of Chicago, and a PhD in History from Loyola University Chicago. I have tutored students one-on-one, in classrooms, and in museum settings and have taught freshman college history at Loyola since 2022. I am currently looking for online-only students, although I am willing to meet in-person with students near the Rogers Park neighborhood in Chicago.
I have worked with a diverse range of students, from advanced Lab School students at the University of Chicago to underprivileged and first-generation college attendees at Loyola's Arrupe College. My experience allows me to individualize instruction to a student's specific needs and learning styles. Unless the student has a particular textbook we need to work from, I tend to provide the materials students need from free online sources. Unlike some tutors, I avoid having students use session time for full-length exam practice, which I feel is a poor deal for parents. Rather, I assign long sections as homework and reserve session time for short lectures and short guided practice. (I also find students focus better when the tasks are broken up.)
For high-school, AP, and college history, I have lecture slides for all major world history and American history topics. History study sessions would include a mini-lecture, primary source analysis, and short writing exercises (along with whatever the student specifically asks for help with). For ACT/SAT/PSAT students, sessions contain a mixture of short lectures and short guided practice. While I can help some with the math sections, my true specialties are English, reading, and science.
