Latin Instruction That's Personalized for You
An individual instructor's hourly rate depends on experience and evaluation scores. All of our Online Latin Tutors have degrees in Classics (PhDs, MAs, or BAs) and have made it through Carmenta's very selective hiring process - we hire only the top 10% of all teachers who apply. Visit our About Us page to learn more about Carmenta's instructors, bespoke service, and general mission.
To hire a Carmenta tutor, send us a message through our Contact Form or call us at (212) 203-8734. Be sure to tell us about your student's past experience with the language, current academic situation, and long-term Latin goals.
Textbook and Educational Resources
Carmenta's administrative team has authored and designed a large collection of proprietary Latin Language Resources for our instructors and students. These include Summaries of Special Case Uses, Visual Vocab Sheets, Preposition Diagrams, Conjugation and Declension Charts, and the Carmenta Conversational Latin Course textbook. We created this collection of 112 downloadable study aids as a supplement to the textbooks used in our Latin courses. These Resources give our instructors the support they need to teach Latin grammar and conversation in an efficient and optimal way.
Bespoke Tutor Selection
Your Carmenta Advisor will guide you through every step of our Tutor Matching process. First, the client meets with an Advisor over the phone. In this initial meeting we learn about your student and give you advice on curriculum and the characteristics of your ideal instructor. Taking your specific academic needs and schedule availability into account, we then compile a short list of tutors who may be an appropriate match. Two to four days later we meet with you a second time and provide you with detailed information for each instructor on the list, outlining their plusses and minuses and advising you on the relative appropriateness of each. The client selects a tutor either during or after this meeting, and the student can start with the instructor within the next few days. This process, which we have developed and perfected over many years, allows the client to select the absolute best long-term match quickly and efficiently.
Your Student's Individual Curriculum Plan
Before the student meets with the chosen instructor for the first time our Administrative Team creates your Individual Curriculum Plan, outlining your student's current academic situation and goals, and the coursework that he or she will follow with the instructor. This may consist of one of our existing Carmenta Courses, be a variation on one of those courses, or be unique curriculum we create just for you. The Plan may or may not include a Conversational Latin element, depending on the learner's particular needs. Parents are sent a copy of the Plan and encouraged to provide feedback. Our Advisors meet with each tutor once every one to two months to discuss student progress and decide if any adjustments need to be made. We send a progress report to the parent after each of these meetings, outlining any issues and recommended changes.
