...I am adept at working with a wide variety of ages and abilities and have taught 3-97 year old students- beginner to advanced including those with special needs. I have been teaching music lessons for 20+ years although I am new to the Wyzant platform. I have training in sight singing from Oberlin Conservatory and Santa Monica College. (read more)
...I enjoy the challenges of making learning enjoyable, meaningful and relevant to each individual student. I have worked in a traditional classroom setting, a special education resource room and most recently I have taught students virtually through the Zoom platform. I currently teach middle sch... (read more)
...During the last several years teaching middle and upper school Mandarin at a Montessori School, I have taught in person, as well as online and in hybrid classrooms during the pandemic. I have adopted new more natural and fun teaching methods including using movements or gestures (TPR), and story... (read more)
...After moving back to my hometown, I became an associate editor at a Cleveland-based newspaper, where I also edited a lifestyle magazine. I have tutored children on a volunteer basis and helped students with their college essays. Helping people of all ages improve their reading and writing skills is very rewarding. (read more)
...The most important thing anyone can learn through education is the habit of building a conceptual framework of his or her topic of interest. I favor group activities that enable students to solve and understand problems that would otherwise be too daunting. The most difficult example of this in... (read more)