...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. My degrees are in education and fine art. (read more)
...Throughout my career, I have taught students of all ages, from middle schoolers to adults, in diverse settings, including classrooms, one-on-one tutoring, and online platforms. My approach is student-centered, blending cultural sensitivity, integrated language skills, and differentiated instruct... (read more)
...In my lessons, I adapt my methodology to student needs, maximizing our time together with creative assessments, exciting content, dynamic discussion and engaging questions. Trained in scaffolded education and simplifying content for mastery, I ask my students pointed questions and, in turn, offer straightforward explanations. Tutoring, for me, is a means of confident education. (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)
...Please know that not only am I an educator, but a parent. I look at my students in two ways, i.e., as an educator as well as a mother. I treat my students the way that I would want a teacher to treat one of my children. (read more)