...During my teaching career I have been trained in AVID instruction, which is a teaching philosophy that prepares students for college and academic success. In addition to my secondary teaching experience, I collaborated with a college professor for two semesters in English support classes at a ti... (read more)
...I have taught over 400 students across three college campuses and two high schools, both in person and online, and have experience in academic writing, college prep, and other subjects related to English language arts. As a published author, I'm familiar with the hardships and joys of this work,... (read more)
...I received high grades in all my college and graduate classes that involved excellent writing skills, such as rhetoric, film theory, philosophy, environmental law, etc. I served as editor and author for Yale's premier graduate student-run publication SAGE Magazine. I have written editorials for local newspapers and blogs. (read more)
...I have been a bit of a "martinet" in regard to my students using correct grammar in their speech and writing patterns. How we speak and write says volumes about us. I can help all age levels with their grammar issues and problems. (read more)
...Students learned grammatical concepts in a scaffolding approach, and they also developed their vocabulary skills through vocabulary-building tips such as the following: determining a word's part of speech, focusing on the meaning of a word's prefix or suffix, determining the meaning of word that ... (read more)