Experience Summary
Since middle school, I have been tutoring my classmates on a casual level. I have helped them with difficult concepts, taught them how to outline, and, continuing even now to law students, I have read numerous Research, English, and Composition papers. In my last semester of college, I worked at our campus Writing Center as a tutor and was hired to be a private tutor for an eight-year-old home-schooled student. As an MFA student, I had been in an active workshop for two years, critiquing an average of 50 pages of creative writing per week. As a volunteer, I work one-on-one with a hospital patient on poetry once a week.
Teaching Style
I have a casual teaching style, one that I have kept with me since I was young. My parents have been phenomenal teachers to me merely through their nature, and in school, I have been extremely fortunate enough to have several outstanding teachers along the way who have inspired me further to teach. I like getting students excited about the work they do, and, particularly with writing, encourage them to think outside the box. I believe everyone is gifted in one way or another, and it is the job of the educator to find a student's gifts and enrich them. In this way, a student will be motivated to learn, particularly when it is in the realm of what they can relate to.