Experience Summary
My teaching experience includes elementary, home bound, tutoring, middle school English, and self-contained special education. Later, I began substitute teaching in the English department at Boys Ranch High School, a facility providing care for children who have removed from their homes. As a result, I completed 41 graduate hours in English at West Texas A&M University, and attended Cambridge University in the United Kingdom in Shakespearean studies. I tutored students for profit and as a volunteer, areas of competence in tutoring include English and Language Arts, Reading, and Social Studies, and History. Finally, my experience includes extensive copy-editing and copy-writing work in a freelance capacity.
Teaching Style
Each student has an individual learning style, and I like to determine ways that each student learns best, and teach to that style. In the classroom, I do not believe in giving the students pointless busywork or worksheets, but rather prefer to include all the students in discussion and peer-led reinforcement of a lesson I presented. I am a creative person, and as such, bring that into my teaching. I participated in the New Jersey Writing Project training, as well as Six Traits Writing curriculum, multi-sensory Alphabetic Phonics, and the Herman Method of phonetic reading instruction.
Teaching is my passion.