...The Elementary course is designed to help K-6 students master the following concepts:
Rote counting. Understanding the addition, subtraction, multiplication and division as mathematical operations. Apply and understand whole numbers to millions, fractions and decimals to the thousandths. (read more)
I started my career in education almost 20 years ago, tutoring students in German at Truman State University. Since then, I've been fortunate enough to have taught both German (at the University of Missouri-Columbia) and English (at the Philipps University in Marburg, Germany). I've taught beginnin... (read more)
...During college I also spent a summer in Turkey to study the Turkish language, my first non-Indo-European language. After college I studied Latin as a way to better understand grammar in general. I also spent three years as a Latin teacher in a private school just outside Washington D.C. (read more)
...Throughout college, I would help peers, friends, and family members with their classes. I was a chemistry teacher for a few months last year before the position was filled. I found that the students loved learning chemistry and that they would come to me for help with their algebra class. (read more)
...In addition to my teaching experience, I have a passion for the science behind personalities, how we learn, and brain development, so I understand that every student learns differently. This is why I make it a central part of my teaching strategy to explain concepts in different ways, in order t... (read more)