...I received high grades in all my college and graduate classes that involved excellent writing skills, such as rhetoric, film theory, philosophy, environmental law, etc. I served as editor and author for Yale's premier graduate student-run publication SAGE Magazine. I have written editorials for local newspapers and blogs. (read more)
...Students learned grammatical concepts in a scaffolding approach, and they also developed their vocabulary skills through vocabulary-building tips such as the following: determining a word's part of speech, focusing on the meaning of a word's prefix or suffix, determining the meaning of word that ... (read more)
...Primarily, I teach English and language arts at the secondary and post-secondary levels (i.e., middle school, high school, college), but I have a knack for teaching different maths, so I offer lessons in those areas, as well. It's demoralizing when students earn A's and B's at school, but still ... (read more)
...It is also helpful to practice memorizing the way common words look, by sight, and not sounding out these words letter by letter. To memorize how the letters look, we can make associations with things you are already familiar with, so that your journey to fluency will be that much easier. Advanced Professional TESOL certificate from the American TESOL Institute. (read more)
...During my teaching career I have been trained in AVID instruction, which is a teaching philosophy that prepares students for college and academic success. In addition to my secondary teaching experience, I collaborated with a college professor for two semesters in English support classes at a ti... (read more)