...Was Yankee any better? Unbeknownst, working for foreign language fluency had shoved me into the curtains of an identity crisis. No mystery, mastery was conditional, and acquisition stimulated confidence. (read more)
...I emphasize using their school planner and/or a special homework folder. We look at the way the textbooks are organized and talk about the importance of bold type, colored boxes of information, list of objectives, etc. I even found a complete course on study skills on Pinkmonkey and worked through it with one student. (read more)
...My teaching experience started with a job at the University of Oregon where I taught a year-long series of workshops and lectures aimed at developing young writers' critical understanding of the craft of creative writing. Since then, I've taught numerous sections of English Composition, Rhetoric... (read more)
I have other thirty-five years of teaching/tutoring experience beginning in 1977 as the manager/tutor of the Stanford Tutoring Service in Palo Alto, California. There are few things more gratifying to me than the look of satisfaction in the eyes of a student for whom the math mystery has been revea... (read more)
Greetings! My name is Katie, and I am a "highly effective," certified, high school English teacher and a dyslexia tutor. I am also a freelance editor and writing consultant. (read more)