My professional experience as an educator and tutor include:
1. Ability to make students relax, interact and learn.
2. Experienced instructor of English as a second/foreign language (ESL/TOFEL) to children, high school and university students and adults in Greece, Spain and the United States.
3. Tutor in: English, U.S and European history, PSAT and SAT preparation for the English section and Spanish.
4. I have tutored in several private high schools in the Farmington Valley for over five years.
5. Aptitude in building and maintaining relationships with individuals from diverse countries, cultural backgrounds and learning abilities.
Teaching and Tutoring Experience
Goodwin College, East Hartford, CT
Simsbury Public Schools, Simsbury, CT (substitute teacher)
Miss Porter’s School, Farmington, CT
Avon Old Farms School, Avon, CT
Kaplan, West Hartford, CT
West Hartford Continuing Education, West Hartford, CT
Universitat Ramon Llull, Barcelona, Spain
Esade, Barcelona, Spain
The New Center, Athens, Greece
Self- Employed Business English Instructor at various companies in Barcelona, Spain
Education
University of Massachusetts, Amherst – B. A. in Journalism and English Literature Newspaper Reporting Internship, Senate Press Gallery – Washington D.C. Connecticut Certification 088. English to Non-Speaking Adults
Royal Society of Arts, Cambridge, United Kingdom – Diploma in the Teaching of English as a Foreign Language to Adults (DTEFLA)
Oxford University, Oxford, England - Intensive course in playwriting and English drama