...My primary goal is always to empower my students to eventually be able to do it without me, so I often use a Socratic method of questioning. My students know that my favorite thing is a wrong answer, because wrong answers are a great starting point! In this way, I can meet students where they a... (read more)
...Much of our time in the program was spent teaching others how to build confidence and skills. Before college, I spent a year as a private special education peer tutor in high school teaching basic life skills. After college, I spent a year as a private tutor for K-12 and a few college students. (read more)
...I have substituted in all grade levels the past two years and in my student teaching placement I have worked with 6th and 2nd grade classrooms. I am a very hands on teacher, who is organized and effective. My goal is get my students engaged in all lessons and to see that learning is fun. (read more)
...Prior to this position, I was a full-time ESL teacher in the Syracuse City School District at Grant Middle School. I have also worked for Cayuga Community College and the BOCES Migrant Education Outreach Program where I was assigned to work with college level students on their listening, speakin... (read more)
...More importantly, I'm a father of three home-schooled girls (youngest is elementary school-aged, oldest would be in high school), and I'm proud to be the one that teaches them math, stats, probability, and coding. As a professor I specialized in teaching subjects such as statistics, computer pro... (read more)