...I lived in Peru for a year. I speak Spanish fluently. I am always practicing Spanish and I have friends in over 8 Spanish-speaking countries as well as many friends here in the USA with whom I speak Spanish almost daily. (read more)
...I taught the following high school English classes at North Farmington High School during my 8-year teaching career:
-AP Language and Composition (11th-12th Grades)
-AP Literature and Composition (11th-12th Grades)
-Honors English 10 (10th Grade)
-Introduction to Literature (9th Grade)
-American ... (read more)
...I also taught Theory of Knowledge (an International Baccalaureate course). I was Western’s Teacher of the Year in 2003 and was nominated again in 2013, 2014, and 2116. I was also featured in the Oakland Press Article “Teacher of the Week” on April 7, 2011. After I retired from public school in 2017, I worked at private school, Brightmont Academy. (read more)
...As a Master's student, I taught 100- and 200-level German courses at MSU. After, I taught at Concordia Language Villages for a summer and an after-school class through a metro-Detroit language school. ESL/ESOL: Studying a foreign language has taught me more about my native language (English). I can talk about grammatical concepts in English, because I've studied German grammatical concepts. (read more)