Teaching and learning should be beautiful not frustrating. I have coached, taught, and tutored in public, private, and home school settings for the last 20 years. I have taught students in grades 1-12. (read more)
25 Subjects: includingWriting,Public Speaking,Study Skills,World History
...I work from an asset-based framework as I believe that every student has their own unique strengths and skills they bring to the table. I subscribe to Paolo Freire's Pedagogy of the Oppressed: education is not neutral and must be used to liberate the oppressed and make a more just society. I have 12 years of experience teaching students effective study strategies that work for them. (read more)
...I was an Arabic Flagship Scholar and returned from my year-long study abroad in Meknes, Morocco. I subsequently completed a Masters of Arab Studies at Georgetown University, where I conducted field research in Algeria, and spent an additional summer in Morocco and Algeria. I studied formally English Literature, Education, and Arabic at UT. (read more)
I received my Ph.D. in English at the George Washington University, and currently teach as a Senior Lecturer in the Asian American Studies program at the University of Maryland, College Park. Prior to this position, I was Visiting Assistant Professor in the English department at Boston University a... (read more)
...I have 1 year of graduate admissions experience and am happy to support individuals applying for graduate and doctoral programs as well. My tutoring approach stems from my years of experience as a Success Coach for undergraduate students. I understand that students' realities and understandings of themselves continuously evolve. (read more)