...I'm a former high school Spanish substitute teacher with a BA in Spanish. I recently returned from a year-long Fulbright grant in Mexico, and I have previous working experience in Ecuador and Chile. I'm a former substitute math teacher and ELL Algebra 2 instructor, including Trigonometry. (read more)
...The content I've taught consists of ratios and proportions, expressions and equations, geometry-surface area and volume, fractions, unit rates and percentages, rational numbers, and statistics. I also encourage and practice basic math skills like multiplication and division, the order of operati... (read more)
...So I respect the discipline of reading and look forward to assisting those in need. I have accumulated an extensive body of published work in non-fiction writing. Grammar, sentence and paragraph structure, and thought organization are attributes that at once challenge and gratify me. (read more)
...It is up to me to find a way of presentation that works with the student's background. I use the Socratic method a lot, asking the student questions and building on the response. I did some Skin diving from 1966 to 1975, and back packing from 1969 to 1975, mostly in the Olympics. (read more)
...He worked with instructors teaching chess to elementary school students at a private school in New Mexico and played a total of 78 students simultaneously. He also worked for two weeks as an instructor of beginner and intermediate students at the Hummingbird Chess Camp in Jemez, New Mexico durin... (read more)