...They then enter the test comfortable with the main types of reading questions and the somewhat unusual method of testing vocabulary with no context. For students applying to schools using the essay, I help them brainstorm for ideas and practice writing skills for the most typical questions. I h... (read more)
...At the same time, all effective critical writing must move from generalities to specifics, including pointed evidence from the text. In creative work, vivid language works to eschew the general observation and replace it with specifics of time and place. Clarity is celebrated, thus, in creative work as well, as characters, setting and plot are developed. (read more)
...I taught adults at a private institution. I have taught PreAlgebra at a private institution. I have taught writing before to both 7th and 8th graders as well as adults. (read more)
...I also have 2 children if my own, ages 25 and 27, who are both college graduates. I taught middle school math in the private school sector. I worked in Cambridge as a public school teacher and about 1/3 of my students spoke English as a second language. (read more)
4 Subjects: includingESL/ESOL,GED,Elementary (K-6th),Elementary Math