...I have a master's degree in social studies education. I have taken an introductory sociology course and an upper-level course in social problems. When I taught an "introduction to the social sciences" course, I taught a detailed unit on sociology. (read more)
...Make vocabulary a game and you'll see the attention perk up into new horizons. Grammar is like putting words into a puzzle and making it fit. Once the basics are incorporated, it becomes fun to learn. (read more)
...I prefer to work with high school to college age students, though I will work with any age. Since I'm autistic, I enjoy working with people who are neurodivergent. My personal method is to show people the correct way to do things through example and push them to figure out the correct way to write, while still preserving the person's voice in their writing. (read more)
...In 2012, Palgrave/Macmillan published a book I co-edited on the Harry Potter series. My PhD in Literature has been quite helpful as I work with students to improve their active reading skills in order to improve their scores on the Reading portions of the SAT exams. With a PhD in English and ov... (read more)
...Why can't it be simpler? That was when I realized that it is simple, and it's just that I thought it was hard. It was my mindset that distracted me from understanding. (read more)