...I take great pride in building a solid rapport with my students and truly believe in the adage "kids don't care what you know until they know that you care". In my position as a middle school teacher and elementary teacher I spent many hours every week doing after school tutoring for my students... (read more)
...During those years, I was a TA for math, social studies, and PE working with 7th and 8th grade students. I have also worked as an ESL teacher assistant for adults as part of Heartland Alliance in the One Summer Chicago Program. I am fluent in both Spanish and English and have worked to translate documents for those whose parents didn't understand English. (read more)
...For the last four years, I taught at a private school in chicagoland, where I headed the science department, redesigned the science curriculum and designed a rebuild of the science labs. At the same time I taught college classes and tutored students individually.I studied this topic as part of my training in physics. Research work has given me real-world exposure to differential equations. (read more)
...Prior to that I was a student teacher and a first grade classroom, and even before that I was a teacher assistant and I third and fourth grade classroom. I feel confident and comfortable with various modes of instruction among many age groups and ability levels. I have been a Mac user for not only my academic career but also my teaching career. (read more)
...Please do not hesitate to ask questions or reach out. I look forward to our sessions!I am an English teacher in the Chicagoland area seeking to help more students with their understandings of the English language. I have taught a plethora of grammar lessons for both state mandated reasons and testing purposes. (read more)