"I have over 25 years experience teaching both children and adults in a classroom and privately. My teaching credential is from California State Northridge and I also have a bachelor's degree from George Washington University in East Asian Studies and an Accounting equivalency from UCLA. Special needs, ESL, creative writing, arts, and language are part of my background base as well. No subject area is too small or large to address. Teaching is what I love to do best and I want your learning to be a positive one.

My interests are eclectic and getting to know people is part of my own growing process. I am willing to travel to your home or a convenient public place, as a library, to complete instruction. My fee is $60 an hour. I have students who I've taught in elementary school that have made their way to college and we still keep in touch. Learning is for life, so make a proactive choice now to improve your child's future.

As a child, I struggled to learn math through the standard approach, listen and learn as the instructor teaches from the front of the classroom. Thus, as a result, I work with a student's strengths to facilitate his/her comprehension of mathematical concepts and always practice patience and understanding. We all learn differently and it will be my goal to find the way to make the subject worthwhile for your child.

I enjoy practicing a hands on approach to science and answering questions to make the subject relevant to today's world and believe we need to encourage our children to learn through creativity. In a classroom, sometimes a subject is raced over, due to time constraints, and in a one on one setting, a child can reach out and explore the possibilities.

I am a poet as well as a teacher and find beauty in linguistics. Any language should not just be memorized, but taught as a usable subject for communication in our global world.

Please contact me through Wyzant with any further questions and I will make your child's learning a priority." less...