Experience Summary
I have been teaching English, composition, college research and writing, argument and persuasion, fiction writing and poetry at the university and community college level for more than five years. My undergraduate degree is a BA in Literature from The Richard Stockton College of NJ. I graduated with 4.0 GPA (Summa Cum Laude), and my graduate degree is a MA in Creative Writing and English from the Creative Writing and Literature program at Temple University in Philadelphia. The students I teach vary greatly in age and ability. That’s one of the reasons I find teaching both exciting and rewarding. I have published poetry, short fiction, and have earned awards for teaching on the college level.
Teaching Style
When a student feels that he or she is staring up at an insurmountable wall, it is important to remember that, as a teacher, that you cannot go with them. You have to provide the strategies students need to surmount, not only the obstacle currently before them, but the one after that, and the ones they will encounter farther down the road.
Students come to the classroom or to tutoring with the desire to grow in substantive ways and to learn and to become skilled at working with new concepts and to understand how those ideas connect with the greater world. I see myself as a guide, a coach, and as someone who works to teach students to “decode” complex ideas and texts— a person whose job it is to lessen frustration and to build confidence.