Hello! I'm Melissa and I love literature and teaching. I taught 11th and 12th grade English literature in Prince George's County in Maryland. (read more)
...It is my passion to be able to encourage the education of children. While students can begin reading before they enter formal schooling, their literacy skills are meant to be refined and improved in the classroom with their instructor's assistance. As a second grade self-contained teacher, I made reading a skill that was both incentivized and highly sought after by everyone in my classroom. (read more)
...In Washington D.C., I worked as an ESL/foreign language teacher for U.S. diplomats using foreign service training methods (language immersion).
My English/ESL credentials are these: a Bachelor of Arts degree in English, Philology and Linguistics, a Master of Arts degree in European Studies and I... (read more)
...I have tutored students before school, after school, and on Saturdays since September 1999 to improve their math skills. I utilize different level of questioning to guide students to understanding the math being acquired. My passion and high energy help the students to be more receptive of answ... (read more)
...I am schooled in English and realize that K-6 focuses most on writing excellence, grammar and reading. I have a PhD. No one achieves a degree of this nature without major discipline within the field of study skills. (read more)