...As a first grade teacher, I taught reading strategies that focused on comprehension, fluency, phonemic awareness, sight words, and deciding. In math, I taught basic skills focusing on number sense, addition, subtraction, word problems, money, time, basic geometry, and basic fractions. As a rea... (read more)
...I have taught in a village school in Jamaica, UNC-Asheville, North Buncombe High School, the Juvenile Evaluation Center and at Christ School, a preparatory boarding school in Asheville. My teaching style is experiential as I believe every student has the capacity to connect with literature and t... (read more)
...I was a high school English teacher for two years (11th grade) and a substitute teacher for four years before that. I am no longer a full-time teacher as I have chosen to pursue a different career, but I am still passionate about teaching. I am AP Lang certified and am especially knowledgeable ... (read more)
...I share unique guessing techniques as well as simplifying content. Each child is unique and there is no cookie-cutter method to maximize test scores, so I listen to the child and we work together as a partners. I have the enthusiasm of a novice and the experience of a greybeard. (read more)
I hold both a bachelor's and a master's degree in Elementary Education with a Concentration in
Language Arts. Additionally, I have 16 years of teaching experience. I believe that all children have unique and specific learning needs and styles. (read more)