...My best professors brought passion to their subjects, and their passion infected me. They also took the time to give me both the encouragement and the precise critiques that motivated me to embrace my assignments and work hard. Looking back on my first essays from freshman year, I can see just how much my writing skills have improved. (read more)
...My eighth job is to develop in students a sense of intrigue and reverence for learning. Reaching this goal is easy if I have completed my other seven jobs; fascination with learning grows out of all the rest.Having spent years studying and teaching others how people learn and how to make learnin... (read more)
...I then prompt and guide the student to recognize and correct grammatical or structural errors in his or her writing, thus teaching the student to proofread his or her work. My approach to reading instruction is to have the student read the text as slow as he or she needs, and coach the student o... (read more)