Joohyun Kim

Joohyun has been an educator for the past fifteen years, teaching students across grade school and graduate levels. Joohyun's extensive experience tutoring students of all ages and backgrounds has afforded her great versatility in teaching, as well as skill in engaging students according to their given abilities. She was a recipient of National Merit Scholarship, a scholarship awarded to students with the strongest combination of academic achievements and extracurricular accomplishments. As a National Merit Scholar, she represented the top 0.25% of the state's senior high school students. She attended New College of Florida, a school encouraging rigorous, free, critical thinking, where she received her degree in philosophy and music. For her interdisciplinary undergraduate thesis, Joohyun drew new connections between French continental philosophy and musicology. She also has a Master's degree in English Composition and Rhetoric from Temple University, where she has taught courses in Composition and Poetry.

She is knowledgeable about pedagogical theories, principles, and practices and is a proponent of evidence-based teaching. A test prep tutor for the past ten years, she is an expert in the SAT and ACT tests and has not only tutored students but also developed curriculum and practice materials. 

 Joohyun tutors in the following subjects: ACT, PSAT, SAT, ISEE, SSAT, Basic Math, Algebra I and II, Geometry, Essay Editing, Study Skills, and Literature.

Joohyun is also a poet, musician, producer, experimental composer, essayist, visual artist, film-maker, and activist. She has won numerous awards for her artistic and social justice work. She has shown her work in galleries in Florida and Philadelphia, composed music for the Sarasota Orchestra, and her work has been purchased by Ringling School of Art. Her poetry is published online in various small press publications and magazines. 

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