...Now, many years later, I hold an M.A. in German with Teaching Licensure from Tufts University, which has allowed me to combine my life-long ambition to work with young people with my passion for German. For the past 10 years I have taught high school German in both the public and private school settings. I now also currently work for Berlitz as an online German instructor. (read more)
...Teaching and writing are my passion. My experience teaching at the University level has taught me that everyone is a good writer with the right encouragement and motivation. Similarly, my experience as a K-12 tutor has shown me that we are all born with an innate passion for words. (read more)
...It's lovely seeing the way someone's eyes light up when they land on the thing they want to write about, and following that urge leads to essays that go beyond checking each box on the rubric. Grammar and syntax and knowing how to cite a source in MLA is important, but writing well requires more... (read more)
...Each person, young or old, from any walk of life, has a unique story to tell. Whatever his or her skill level happens to be, that student has gifts that are waiting to be tapped into. Most people have a preferred path to learning, and I try to use that path to accomplish their specific goals. (read more)
11 Subjects: includingReading,English,Writing,ACT Math
...I then went on to graduate school at Sarah Lawrence College, where I received my Masters in Fiction Writing and Poetry. While there, I took my first teaching job in the ACES program, an afternoon program for high school students gifted in the arts. I taught Creative Writing workshops there and was the advising editor on the school's literary magazine. (read more)