...Regardless if it is a little child or an adult student, I help them learn to read with comprehension and intrigue them in reading, so they become lifetime readers. I model for my students how to find the essence of each paragraph and then help them summarize the whole information we can get from... (read more)
...Thus, my lessons have a dynamic, and sometimes unpredictable, element to them. Although I don't feel like I've quite achieved the level of one of my favorite teachers, what I admired most about her was that she didn't just teach but brought her teaching to an art form. I've been married 34 year... (read more)
...I have many years experience teaching high school English, including literary analysis and research writing. I have many years experience teaching high school English. I have a bachelor's degree in English and a master's in Language Education. (read more)
...I've taught writing at four colleges: IUPUI, University of Indianapolis, Ball State and Ivy Tech; at three public high schools: Indianapolis Metropolitan, Lawrence Central and Perry Meridian; and at one private K-8 school: St. Richard's Episcopal School. I also served as a writing coach at Y-Pr... (read more)
...Because of these repeated failures, he considered himself incapable of learning the material. We sat down together and talked about what each of the words meant. We discovered together that every vocab term in the lesson was connected to something he had heard of and could understand. (read more)