...As a great math teacher, I show students why the material they're learning matters and how it can be useful in actual situations. I make sure to seize opportunities to get students out of the traditional skill and drill and connect their learning to the real world in real-time. As a great Engli... (read more)
5 Subjects: includingReading,Writing,Elementary (K-6th),Elementary Math
...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 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 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 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)