I am Martina and I have been a teacher for seven years. I am licensed in English-Secondary education and special education for grades 5-12. For the first four years of my teaching (2018-2021), I taught in a private school as the ELA teacher for grades 5-8 in Brooklyn. (read more)
...Most students ask why it is they have to learn a subject or how they will ever use it, and I enjoy teaching grammar and vocabulary specifically because of how much we use it in life. Math has always been a subject that I loved teaching! Children will fall in love with a subject not based on the material, but on the teacher and HOW the material is taught. (read more)
...I strongly believe that there can be too many cooks in the proverbial kitchen, and my foremost role as an editor is help develop the writer's own voice and confidence in it. A little on me: I graduated from Newark Academy, where I completed the full IB Diploma, and attended the Iowa Young Writer... (read more)
...I also tutored Basic Composition students who would then go on to take Expository Writing. I worked with students either one on one, or in a group with up to three others. I like to keep my groups small so that my focus is not split up and I can give each student the proper attention they deserve when tutoring. (read more)
...I studied history in college and received a minor degree. More importantly, I am constantly learning about history through reading and travel. I studiedly European history in College and have avidly read up on the subject since then. (read more)