In both personal and professional experiences, I’ve been privileged to blend two of my passions—teaching and writing—with my love for children. While raising my own two kids in south-central Pennsylvania, I chose to work at home as a freelance editor and ghostwriter for 20 years (assisting various publishers and authors, writing adult and children’s literature). At the same time, I became heavily involved with teaching many children of all ages. My responsibilities, both paid and volunteer,...
In both personal and professional experiences, I’ve been privileged to blend two of my passions—teaching and writing—with my love for children. While raising my own two kids in south-central Pennsylvania, I chose to work at home as a freelance editor and ghostwriter for 20 years (assisting various publishers and authors, writing adult and children’s literature). At the same time, I became heavily involved with teaching many children of all ages. My responsibilities, both paid and volunteer, included serving as a preschool music instructor (ages 2 to 5), private piano teacher (all ages), a children’s music director (ages 2 to 6th grade), children’s church director (ages 2 to 6th grade), homeschool teacher (ages 3 to 10), and volunteer tutor (via Boys & Girls Club and church organizations). I likewise assisted high school and college students with essay-writing and scholarship applications. Moreover, before I started my own family, I was employed four years as a Recruitment and Training Coordinator, orienting and training up to 530 employees within a state-government facility and worked another four years as a Volunteer Director, in which I recruited a number of individuals and groups, both children and adults, matching their interests and abilities to the residents of a nursing home.
At the beginning of 2019, I enjoyed working five months as a substitute teacher for Washington County, Maryland schools, assisting at 26 different locations (elementary through high school). Subsequently, during the 2019-20 school year, I was privileged to accept a six-month elementary-school assignment, where I tutored individual students as well as groups of two to three children with special needs. Each hour, I would move to another one of seven classrooms (grades K-5 to 4th) and assist with reading and writing assignments, science or math lessons. I also enjoyed participating in the after-school program, playing the piano and teaching songs to children of all ages.
Whether it’s helping a 2nd-grader solve multiplication proble
