Donna Janine M.
- Greensboro, NC 27408 ( 17.2 mi )
- Portuguese Tutor
- Female
- Member Since: 11/2010
- Will travel up to 20 miles
- Rates from $40.00 to $44.00 /hr
- Also Tutors: French, English ESOL, Arabic
Read More About Donna Janine M...
My teaching style for Spanish is proficiency-based, culture-based and student-centered. My college students master basic Spanish vocabulary and grammar through writing grocery lists, ordering from a menu, describing how they are feeling, and even decorating skull cookies for the Day of the Dead. On a similar note, I teach children by discovering and exploring Spanish with them. Together we decorate Day of the Dead cookies, create and label picture posters, and play games in Spanish to practice vocabulary. Each activity always targets the child's strongest learning styles and their comfort zones.
I began tutoring Spanish as an undergraduate twenty-five years ago. In college, graduate school and as a professor I wrote literary analyses in Spanish, English and Portuguese. Many of these papers were written from historical, sociological or psychoanalytic perspectives. I taught all leve ... read more
