...Tutoring allows me to fit individual students' needs exactly, and watch them grow and learn in response. Since my high school turning years, I have been teaching and tutoring English literacy skills, phonics, and the visual arts. I write novels in my free time, play fiddle, and paint. (read more)
...I have always been considered a creative and innovative teacher as well as a good motivator. Finally, I have always prided myself on understanding students individual needs and meeting those needs in the most interesting and enthusiastic way. I taught reading at an elementary level and middle s... (read more)
...It's lovely seeing the way someone's eyes light up when they land on the thing they want to write about, and following that urge leads to essays that go beyond checking each box on the rubric. Grammar and syntax and knowing how to cite a source in MLA is important, but writing well requires more... (read more)
...After receiving my Ph.D., I taught Composition and Public Speaking as a Professor of English at Johnson & Wales University in Providence, Rhode Island for eight years. Before starting graduate school, I worked as an Editorial Assistant at the publishing firm Little, Brown and Company, and tutore... (read more)