Experience Summary
15+ years teaching experience: grades 4-12, & Community College, classroom, on-line, hybrid, and in-home settings.
Two time Fellow of the California Writing Project's Invitational Summer Institute. Member, NC Writing Project, Charlotte.
Credentialed English, ESL, and Social Studies teacher, with two years post secondary teaching experience.
SJSU Writing center tutor & department grammar T.A. 1988-1991 as a history major.
Eight years home-schooling students on long term medical leave through the HomeBound and Home/Hospital program.
Intensive remediation and standards recovery for middle schools program; intensive intervention and credit recovery lab supervisor at local alternative high school. Special needs learning and differentiation through honors and AP. Licensure in Middle grades Science; licensure for upper elementary pending upcoming fall Praxis exam results.
Ability to build rapport, find the right way to explain or demonstrate,ands the right questions to spark your ability to "get it this time." My goal is to help you no longer need me.
Teaching Style
Active, energetic, interactive, patient, Socratic and discussion based, modeling and making mistakes together to learn how to learn and to master the required material.
My Hobbies
reading copiously, writing: creative non-fiction, sparse prose poetry, memoir, women's social history, Golf, Exploring my new NC home.
Other Comments
I anchored a homebound program to liaise with students' on -campus teachers for 7 or 8 years in Central California. I've leveraged my exposure to other areas of high school curriculum to add certifications to help students in as many ways as possible, to appeal to each student's learning styles and strengths. I am as vested in your success, or your child's, as you are!
| American History |
 This is one of my top subjects!
Proficiency: Expert
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| BA History, SJSU; winner,multiple history fellowships during my time as an undergraduate. |
| Composition |
Proficiency: Expert
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| English degree, graduate coursework in English Literature on Composition; Two time fellow of the California Writing Project. I can teach the standard modes of writing, the text and transitional structures, and how to combine each into well crafted prose. This is what I do! |
| Elementary |
Proficiency: Expert
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| Long term substitute in 5/6 combination, and regular substitute (1-2x a month) in 4th grade class.
Able to help with reading, writing, spelling, mathematics, sciences, social studies, and any special projects for upper elementary students. Years as a camp counselor, day camp director, and after school program director for upper elementary through college--I love kids at this age! |
| Elementary Phonics |
Proficiency: Expert
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| MS ED in Literacy Development. |
| Elementary Reading |
Proficiency: Expert
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| MS ED in Literacy |
| English |
This is one of my top subjects!
Proficiency: Expert
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| World, Lit, American Lit, Comparative Lit, AP literature, Adolescent Lit, reading for comprehension, vocabulary development, and standard rule of usage made simple. It's what I do!!
Creative writing? Yes! Journalism and investigative reporting? Yes! Language Arts? Yes! Poetry? Yes--writing, analyzing, comprehending? |
| Geography |
Proficiency: Experienced
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| part of History Social Science Credentials--focus on five general themes and how geography impacts people |
| Government |
Proficiency: Experienced
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| Part of History Social Studies credentialing. Avid follower of politics, both current and distant causes and effects and how they affect us today. |
| Grammar |
Proficiency: Expert
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| three year SJSU Department Grammar tutor as a history major. I have a grammar gift. |
| Homework Help |
Proficiency: Expert
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| Whatever you have, I can help you understand, process and explain it back. You'll know what you ought to, and how it applies. 6 years after school program Assistant?Program Director local YMCA on site after school care. Experience in running a "home practice" center. |
| Journalism |
Proficiency: Experienced
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| see above under English |
| Language Arts |
Proficiency: Expert
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| see above regarding English and Literature.
This is what I do. |
| Literature |
Proficiency: Expert
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| See above regarding English proficiencies. This IS what I do. |
| Poetry |
Proficiency: Expert
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| I read it, I write it, I teach students to open it up and unpack it so they understand it.
sample of my own available on request. |
| Political Science |
Proficiency: Experienced
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| part of earning a history degree |
| Reading |
Proficiency: Expert
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| MS Ed in Literacy Development--this is what I do with my students daily--model good reading, use reciprocal reading strategies, and focus on specific literally devices anyhow they affect the piece as a whole. |
| Reading Comprehension |
Proficiency: Expert
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| MS Ed in Literacy Development--this is what I do with my students daily. |
| Shakespeare |
Proficiency: Expert
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| Best corse I took as an Undergrad. Shakespeare seems far more difficult than he is. Beautiful language to express universal truths. R & J, Lear, Hamlet, Midsummer Night's Dream; Macbeth*, the Tempest, Julius Caesar---odds are if it's assigned in your class, I've read it, analyzed it, and written a paper on it. I can show you how!! |
| Social Studies |
Proficiency: Expert
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| Credentialed in Social studies in two states grades 6-12. |
| Spelling |
Proficiency: Expert
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| pattern mastery. working with sound alikes, sight words, and some simple basic rules for building onto words correctly. |
| World History |
Proficiency: Expert
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| All history IS world history--that's what's imortnat to understand. Europe, America, Latin America, Asia, Africa--all encompass world of global history through their own lens.
I believe in big picture history, connecting the American to the European to the global events that all worked together. |
| Writing Skills |
This is one of my top subjects!
Proficiency: Expert
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| I teach students that good writing is merely good thinking. There are several formulas or pattens in writing that make producing a paragraph, essay, or paper much less complicated. On line tools have also simplified the writing process, so that your ideas and content shine through.
One time editor and sportswriter, and consistently the person to ask about how to write this everywhere I've worked since high school. |