Liam ConnerlyColorado Springs, COMiddle and High School Latin & Etymology Teacher, TikTok Educator, life-long learner
Each lesson and plan of attack is by design between both the client and myself. Sometimes, with the amount of material I've garnered and procured over my years instructing at the secondary levels and tutoring at undergraduate levels. Our classes are always a continual conversation, where we assess, discuss how fluency is going, and whether we need to pivot and slow/hasten the rigor of instruction.
I also have an educational TikTok, YouTube, and Podcast (Latin in Layman's- A Rhetoric Revolution) which has brought people to seek me out in order to just START learning Latin. Most of my clients are actually not in a Latin class, they just simply want to learn and grow.
I embrace the concepts of being a lifelong learner. Everyone is growing up in this world… Throughout my time instructing, I’ve come to learn that while my students are growing up into this world, so is everyone else, regardless of age: I am, while my parents are, while you are, while your parents are, while my students’ parents are, while… Well, I digress. Life is truly humbling when you embrace the fact that you’ll never know everything (even if you tried.) Therefore, my philosophy revolves around learning for the sake of learning. Latin has imbued this in me since my genesis in teaching it; something as esoteric as a “Dead Language” actually lays roots in medicine, the legal discipline, culture, mathematics, history, etymology, Anthropology, Chemistry, English grammar, et cetera! Regardless of whether a student will use “the quadratic formula” or “subjunctive grammar concepts” or the understanding of an “acute vs. obtuse angle” later into their lives isn’t the point nor goal of education; it’s the aspect of learning something new and investing in our brains like we do in all other facets of our lives that we care about… The point isn’t “why” are we learning these concepts but rather “how” can these disciplines open up my understanding of the world around me more so than before?
