Experience Summary
As a New York City Teaching Fellow, I have been faced with challenges of the utmost difficulty in the past two years. Teaching English to ninth and tenth graders in the Bronx proved to be most rewarding and fostered my love of English and academia in general. I was a teacher, baseball coach and full-time student, before being appointed to Dean of Students at the start of my second year teaching. My BA from NYU and MA from City College of New York had filled my head with brilliant theory, but I got my experience in the Bronx. Maintaining all of those different "hats" was extremely trying, but equally rewarding. I have tutored students in reading, writing, literature and every other area of English Language Arts and have had tremendous success. Currently, I have a chapter in a book under review, outlining my success stories from inside an urban English classroom.
Teaching Style
Some people face road blocks, but there is always a way to get to where they need to go. I love a challenge and am enthusiastic about the material, and as a result, the information becomes contagious. Theory will get a teacher only so far, and then it becomes about the vehicle. I pride myself on finding ways to get my student to comprehend and retain. My goal is to find the vehicle- the "how" with which to deliver the material. I love kids and I love teaching, and I do not allow for quitting. 100% is the only way to success.