...I'm a certified high school Spanish teacher currently teaching Spanish 1 and 2 to 9th-12th graders. Prior to teaching high school, I taught three years of middle school and introductory Spanish for 1.5 years at the University of Utah as a graduate teaching assistant while I completed my master's... (read more)
...Learning French did not come naturally for me. However, my struggle to learn French helped me to gain important skills and techniques--the same ones I teach my students. It also equipped me to better empathize with and help my students who have struggled. (read more)
...I meet students where they are in their reading and allow them to grow naturally as readers without imposing age-specific expectations. Everyone learns to read skillfully at a different pace, and we begin with making reading easy and fun. Reading Hope teachers help students set goals, offer strategies to help them reach those goals, and build toward agency and independence at all ages. (read more)
...Although many students are hesitant at first, there is a a beauty and safety inherent to its order. I seek to explore this in my lessons as well as to render it far less daunting and not so terrible. On occasion, I have even been told that Prealgebra is fun- but I don't want to jinx myself, so let's leave it at that. (read more)
...The student will learn the latest and most effective learning and study skills so that the student will be able to do most of his or her future learning independently. To further the student's learning I will provide the student with a variety of resources that will help the student master the s... (read more)