Experience Summary
I taught Bulgarian as a second language to college-aged students for close to 3 years. During this experience I also taught leadership and communication skills to prepare these students for a full-time service in Bulgaria. During the last 2 years I have also tutored people learning Russian and/or Bulgarian who were taking college classes on the subject. Teaching a language has helped me understand and explain numerous grammatical principles. I also spent 3 months tutoring 4th graders in the after-school program at a Provo elementary school. I helped them mostly with reading and math.
Teaching Style
I love working one-on-one with students. I can see individual needs of students and work with them on overcoming them. I generally pick specific things someone needs to work on and prepare my lesson working only on that until there is sufficient progress to move on. When I teach I like to give examples of what we are working on and then allow some practice time to assess whether or not students understand the material. One of my teaching tools is making exercises that a student can take 15-20 minutes to complete outside of class and use it at the beginning of our next session as a quick review/Q&A opportunity. I enjoy teaching and seeing progress in my students. I believe most students have undiscovered potential to excel in any subject.