Experience Summary
SUMMARY Ten years legal experience from the law firms and companies of Gerardin & Socol, P.A., Saccani Legal and Business Translations, George T. Ramani, P.A., James P. Gagel, P.A., Perry Ellis International, Catholic Charities, Eduardo Soto, P.A., and Lee H. Gross, P.A., a six-year naval career, and a B.A. in History and a Juris Doctorate. While still in college, I tutored and assisted in the instruction of History, English and Mathematics. During law school, I was hired by Winn Dixie, Inc. to teach English to the Spanish speaking associates. Some of my best assets are that I learn quickly and efficiently, can handle many diverse duties and am highly motivated as well as being a self-starter. Good problem solving, multi-tasking writing and verbal communication skills. Bilingual English-Spanish.
Teaching Style
When you are in charge of a group, you need to make sure that group overall has to succeed. While you may want to have everyone in the group to get A’s on all of their assignments, as a teacher, you need to be practical. Like a workshop in a factory or the support staff in a law firm, a classroom is filled with individuals who have different strengths and weaknesses. These differences may show that certain students learn and absorb knowledge in different ways.
I think my ability to use a student’s strengths to succeed may ensure a student to strive for high academic achievement. This ability to see a person’s certain talents may also have this student succeed in learning a subject. One example I can recall is when I was in the Navy, I had to train a new shipmate, fresh out of boot camp, to learn the ship’s engineering systems. Traditional methods of pure memorization from a lecture basically fell through the cracks and the recruit could not just understand how these systems interacted with each other. So I tried to figure out his strengths, since I knew his weaknesses, and one thing that came to me was that he was very neat and organized in anything he had to do. He kept his personal and professional thing in organized compartments. So this is what I had him do: put these systems in categories and then show how the different categories interacted with each other. Eventually, the recruit was able to organize the systems and put them in a Venn-diagram that show how they interact with each other. Finding his strength of organization helped him getting certified at certain engineering post.