Emily Wells

Emily Wells has been teaching Latin for almost twenty years. She has taught Latin to grades 2-6 at Veritas Academy in Pennsylvania, taught junior high and high school classes locally in Idaho (where she lives) as well as teaching full-time online through her own tutorial business, substitute taught Latin and Greek at Logos Christian School, and taught high school students at Veritas Scholars Academy online. She has also tutored local college students in Latin, taught Introduction to Great Books and Hebrew, and loves Greek and Italian. Emily received a classical, Christian education from Schola Classical Tutorials in high school, completed the intensives Latin-in-a-Week and Greek-in-a-Week, and continued her studies at New Saint Andrews College and the University of Idaho. Emily and her husband, Aaron (also a teacher), are raising their four children in the house where she grew up in North Idaho, next to her parents and grandparents. She loves the Lord and enjoys reading, coffee, travel, baseball, walking in the woods with her husband and kids, and mint chocolate chip ice cream.

Teaching Philosophy

I believe that students should learn how to learn, and to desire to be lifelong learners. This shapes the way I teach and how classes …