...I'm looking forward to teaching your amazing student! Bachelor's degree in History with Honors from the University of Florida; I also wrote a dissertation on educational history my senior year of college that is in the process of being published. Please contact me so we can work out a time to meet! (read more)
...My poetry's most recently appeared in the Harvard Review Online, Rattle, The Common, Prairie Schooner and North American Review, among others. Students willing to work on and grow their English composition, comprehension and grammar skills can improve their results, and I'd be happy to help them do so. Please note: I focus on building students' skills, not egos. (read more)
...Both as stand-alone lessons, and as a part of a lesson. I experience reading difficult texts in college and in high school, so I understand the challenges students face in English classes. I have experience teaching reading skills, including decoding and vocabulary. (read more)
...I enjoy working with children of all ages and tend to make the lessons seem more like play than school "work." My students like my real-life examples, funny drawings, and tips on how to remember different facts (mnemonics). Studying and test-taking have always come relatively easily to me. More ... (read more)
...In order to receive this degree, I had to successfully complete coursework related to English. In addition, I was a classroom teacher for 11 years and was required to teach English to students in grades 1-8 for eight of the eleven years. More recently, I have been tutoring several elementary school students in the appropriate use of English. (read more)