...Over my 28-year teaching career, I have taught in various settings in South Africa and the US. I have moved between large classrooms in public high schools to smaller, more focused classroom environments in private schools. I have worked with students ranging from middle school to high school seniors, focusing primarily on grades 9-12. (read more)
...I love the challenge of breaking material down and helping a student build it back up into a personally-meaningful understanding. The fact that a real person's real future is impacted by my work gives it meaning beyond the joy of the material. I also truly enjoy the material I teach. (read more)
...I have a BA in Communications from Eastern Michigan University in Michigan, USA & Telecommunications in Curtin University of Technology of Western Australia. Having lived abroad in multiple countries and helping my own three children learn the local language where we lived, enables me to teach p... (read more)
...Along the way I have come up with a few useful tools and tricks of the trade that can really help. Usually its a case of getting the young person really "motivated" to express themselves well and with accuracy. This includes helping them to determine who their audience is and what goal they are aiming to achieve with a piece of writing. (read more)
...My SAT and ACT tutoring strategy centers around practice tests, which I believe are the key to improving scores. I use practice tests to diagnose students’ strengths and weaknesses and then provide targeted lessons to improve those weaknesses. I also go through practice tests with students, to ... (read more)