...I spent 4 summers studying abroad, including Paris and Besançon, France in graduate school, and San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, México for my Spanish teaching licenses. Currently, I teach modular, online French and Spanish courses to students from the elementary grades to adults, and tutor privately. I'm also volunteer teaching a French for Travelers course to a local church group. (read more)
...More recently, I have been tutoring several elementary school students in the appropriate use of English. I have eleven years of classroom teaching experience. During my time as a classroom teacher, I was responsible for teaching all of the core subjects to my students. (read more)
...My suggestion is that the different formulas and concepts should be considered tools to use. A carpenter has many tools, and learns to use them effectively to complete the task at hand. The formulas and concepts of Math and Engineering are likewise tools to use to complete the task at hand. (read more)
...I have written and reviewed technical reports as well as shorter pieces to inform the general public. At an engineering consulting firm at which a half- project managers always designated me as the "go to" individual for writing and or editing reports. As a teacher, I urged students to submit rough drafts of their assigned research papers to me for editing and advice. (read more)
...When I'm not not teaching and editing student writing, I write arts journalism and poetry. My journalism has most recently appeared in The Boston Globe, Christian Science Monitor, Jewish Daily Forward, Albany Times Union, and more. My poetry's most recently appeared in the Harvard Review Online, Rattle, The Common, Prairie Schooner and North American Review, among others. (read more)